Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 10:58 PM• Last update: 23:16

If Aad de Mos had been the trainer of Heracles Almelo, he would have replaced Rai Vloet after his missed penalty during the 1-0 defeat against PEC Zwolle. The Heracles attacker failed face to face with keeper Kostas Lamprou by putting a panenka over the goal. Partly due to Vloet’s miss, the team of trainer Frank Wormuth ran into an expensive defeat in injury time.

After the match, De Mos added The Grandstand indicated that he didn’t actually give a penny for PEC. “No, not at all with that penalty for Heracles.” De Mos looked for an explanation for the panenka. “Vloet calls Memphis Depay twice a week, they are friends and both ex-PSV players. Vloet probably thought: What he can do, I can do too. In this situation, with a 0-0 score you don’t do that” De Mos referred to Vloet’s missed panenka: “You just have to take that penalty normally. Then you put yourself above the whole thing, but now he only thinks of himself. That’s all wrong. I had changed him, I can’t stand that. Not for the rest of the boys either.. go, go.”

Roy Makaay, who was also present at The Grandstand, indicates that he would not have made the same decision as Vloet. “I didn’t do panenkas,” says the former striker. “Never. I missed two penalties at Vitesse and once at Deportivo de La Coruña. I made them all at Feyenoord and Bayern Munich.” Makaay also does not understand why Vloet chose a panenka: “The situation of Heracles, who has not won an away game for a long time. I think that if Vloet had used the penalty, PEC Zwolle would not have scored a goal very quickly.”

Frank Wormuth appeared in front of the cameras of after the lost duel in Zwolle ESPN. Heracles’ trainer was mild to Vloet. “No, i am not angry. Rai is disappointed, I think,” he said. “He knows what he has done. We’ve also seen such penalties go in. But if such a penalty does not go in… This is strange. But I am not angry.”