Arne Slot understands little of the way in which referee Mattias Gestranius awarded a red card to Guus Til on Thursday evening in the match between Slavia Prague and Feyenoord (2-2). Initially, Gestranius awarded a yellow card, but on the advice of his linesman it became a red. A video referee is not used in the Conference League. Slot speaks of a ‘bizarre’ incident.
Til received a red card for a hefty and unnecessary tackle on Nicolae Stanciu’s calf, nota bene around Slavia’s penalty area. “I have not yet seen the violation, but the referee gave yellow and a minute later red, while no VAR was present”, Slot looks back at the press conference. “Right or wrong, I don’t dare to say that yet, but this was really bizarre. I don’t think this has ever been shown before.”
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Slot talked to the fourth official on the sidelines during the game. “He told me that the referee decided it himself, but I don’t have the impression that when I go to a fourth official I always get to hear what exactly is going on. So I take that with a grain of salt. watch a lot of football, but I have never experienced this,” concludes the trainer, whose team is assured of the group win in the Conference League thanks to the draw.
Cyriel Dessers scored both Rotterdam goals. He found the red card awarded ‘very strange’. “I can’t judge well enough whether it was a yellow or red card, because I haven’t seen it enough for that,” said the striker. ESPN. “The referee first gives a yellow card and then the Slavia players rush towards it. Then he starts to doubt and draws red. He said the linesman advised him, but he was standing sixty meters away, so he cannot have seen it at all. looks like amateur football, that the referee is so influenced by the opponent.”
Slot is above all proud of the performance of his team. “We first survived three qualifying rounds and we all remember how difficult the first was, in terms of results and in terms of game,” he refers to the diptych with FC Drita. “What we managed fairly quickly is to play football very well. If you work hard and have the qualities that we have, that leads to a victory nine times out of ten. That we are in such a difficult group , with a Bundesliga club and Slavia Prague in it, to be through, that’s very clever.”