Hans Kraay Jr. enjoyed the tension between Bas Nijhuis and Roger Schmidt last Saturday. In the match between PSV and Vitesse, the German trainer emphatically asked for a yellow card for Lois Openda after a foul on Mauro Júnior; the referee waited a long time before giving it. Kraay Jr. reveals at Veronica Inside that Nijhuis put on a ‘nice derogatory tone’ against Schmidt at that time.
René van der Gijp cites the situation that struck him last weekend. “Bas (Nijhuis, ed.) saw a violation in the PSV dugout. Then that Schmidt was roaring that that player must be yellow. But Bas didn’t give it to him. Knowing Bas, he walks up to Schmidt and asks what his problem is. Then Bas should have said: ‘Yes, you can give it, but I won’t.’”
In the end, Nijhuis decided to give the yellow card to Openda. Johan Derksen thought the same: “I thought: Bas, you give him, because you don’t want to mess with Schmidt. But I thought: you should give Schmidt a yellow card.” Derksen is referring to the past that the duo already have with each other. For example, Schmidt was suspended for two more matches last January, because he accused Nijhuis of whistling to his team on purpose.
Van der Gijp agrees with his table companion. “You shouldn’t be roaring for a yellow card, you shouldn’t do that, dude.” Derksen concludes that Schmidt was ‘another annoying German for a while’. Then Kraay Jr. sees his chance, who was present at the match between PSV and Vitesse. “I was a meter behind, eh. And Bas did say to him in a nice derogatory tone: ‘Was Sagen Sie?‘” (German for ‘what do you say’, ed.) However, the analyst is loud and clear about Nijhuis’s decision. “It was a big yellow card.”
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