Ajax is 2-0 behind PSV in the Johan Cruijff Scale at halftime. Subject of conversation at ESPN in addition to the two goals from Noni Madueke, the red card for Nicolás Tagliafico. Although presenter Milan van Dongen is convinced that the left back of Ajax was rightly sent away, Kenneth Perez has his doubts about this.
Tagliafico first lost the game to Philipp Mwene on the stroke of half-time and then came into frustration with André Ramalho, who was hit hard on the ankle. Referee Björn Kuipers waited with his decision and gave red after consultation with the VAR. Perez didn’t think it was a red card. “Is that tackle really that bad given the game picture?”, said the Dane. “Is this very high, is it with the studs first?”
Perez then mentions that in the scuffle that followed after his tackle, Tagliafico also handed a kind of headbutt to Marco van Ginkel. Still, the red card decision seems to have been made solely on the basis of his charge on Ramalho. Perez did enjoy the first half. “A great game, unfortunately destroyed by the red card,” said the analyst.
Arnold Bruggink thought it was red. “I think so. You see Kuipers waiting. He did not make this decision himself, but really based on the VAR.” Bruggink also found the first half between Ajax and PSV very interesting. “Intense, as the Ajax – PSV matches were like last season. We are very close to the field behind this and then you get this extra good. You get so little time. In the Eredivisie we will just see very little of this. we see this level, I really enjoy that.”
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