Bas Nijhuis supports his decision to cancel the penalty awarded to the visitors in the injury time of the match between Vitesse and PSV (2-1) after watching the video images. In conversation with FOX Sports Nijhuis says that after the match there was great anger at PSV trainer Roger Schmidt, but the arbitrator still thinks he did well to consult the images.

Nijhuis initially saw a penalty kick in a push from Eli Dasa towards Jorrit Hendrix and pointed to the spot. VAR However, Danny Makkelie intervened and called his colleague to the side to look at the images again. Nijhuis then came back to his decision and gave the ball to goalkeeper Remko Pasveer of Vitesse. The referee indicates that Schmidt was angry ‘for two things’ when the trainer came to him after the match.

“At first he was angry because I gave the ball back to the goalkeeper after the penalty moment. That is a rule that hardly anyone knows”, Nijhuis responds. “If such a situation occurs in the penalty area, the ball is always returned to the goalkeeper. Apparently they do not know that rule very well. And that does not matter, because it is also a difficult rule. He was also angry because he thought. that it wasn’t one hundred percent wrong. “

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Nijhuis initially thought that Hendrix was ‘pushed away with two hands’ by Dasa and therefore whistled for a penalty. He heard from Makkelie that there was indeed contact, but not with the hands. “When I see it again, I don’t think it’s a penalty”, Nijhuis explains. He tried to explain to Schmidt that he had “seen something different from what had happened.” “Then you just have to look.”

“I have given explanations, even in German. But it was so high among those guys that I thought: you can’t talk to this right now. I understand that the emotions are high, but this is the protocol we work with. I’m glad I went to watch. These are decisive moments “, the arbitrator concludes. Schmidt himself added FOX Sports that there was hardly any room for a discussion with the referee. “I asked him if he knew the rules, but all he answered was if I wanted a yellow or a red card.”