Roger Schmidt lashed out at Bas Nijhuis at the press conference after the match between Vitesse and PSV (2-1). The PSV trainer accuses the referee of arrogance after his decision to cancel an awarded penalty kick for the Eindhoven team in injury time. After the final whistle there was an altercation on the field of the GelreDome stadium between Schmidt and Nijhuis, which will be continued in the media after the game.

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. “I am angry,” Schmidt admitted at the press conference. “The referee has clearly influenced the game negatively for us. It is a crystal clear rule that he can only check something if it is a clear foul. It was just a penalty.”

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“The player goes for the man”, he refers to the action of Dasa against Hendrix. “It is a thousand percent penalty kick and so he is not allowed to check it. I told the referee that too”, it quotes. Eindhovens Dagblad the trainer at the press conference. Nijhuis himself stated that he initially thought that Hendrix was ‘pushed away with two hands’ by Dasa. He heard from Makkelie that there was indeed contact, but not with the hands. After watching the video images, the referee agreed with the VAR’s judgment.

Schmidt nevertheless thinks he is right on his side. “If you act so arrogant, you also have to make the right decisions,” said the German. “My players gave their all. He decided the game and hurt us.” Schmidt acknowledges that being a referee is ‘a difficult job’ and questions the way the VAR is applied. “The VAR has to ensure justice and now it is the other way around. Football is a contact sport. An assessment is completely different if you are five meters away from something or if you watch from a screen. If you are five meters off it, as in this one. case, you know if it was a good decision. “