Roel Janssen is furious with referee Joey Kooij. The defender of Fortuna Sittard was sent off the field with a red card against FC Emmen on Saturday evening at the start of the second half and caused a penalty. Janssen wanted to show his dissatisfaction with Kooij, but received no response. “This boy just can’t whistle”, Janssen grumbles in conversation with ESPN.
When Paul Gladon rushed towards goalkeeper Yanick van Osch four minutes after the break in the penalty area, he was pulled by the arm by Janssen. The defender got a red card, presumably because Kooij was of the opinion that Gladon was deprived of a great scoring opportunity. “At such a moment you are very angry”, Janssen says afterwards. “You can’t talk to the man either. A very arrogant little guy, so you can’t do anything with that.”
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The thirty-year-old man-clock then empties over Kooij. “It does not mean that it is a very stupid mistake on my part, but he really whistles for every fart: for tackles that are on the ball and he thinks too hard. It was like indoor football. you immediately get an angry look and he starts threatening with cards. That’s Joey Kooij, eh. This boy just can’t whistle. It’s just awful. I’ve seen several games of him and it’s just dramatic. It doesn’t take away that I made a very stupid mistake and hurt the team terribly “, Janssen repeats,” but I don’t think that the second penalty is a penalty. ”
Janssen himself caused the first penalty, from which Emmen opened the score via Sergio Peña. After his red card, Dimitrios Emmanouilidis made it 1-1 in minute 85, after which Kooij again awarded a penalty to Emmen. The same Emmanouilidis torpedoed Glenn Bijl in the penalty area according to the arbitration. The latter took care of the penalty himself, because Peña had already been substituted. He successfully searched the left corner. In the seventh minute of injury time, Gladon set the final score at 1-3.
Sjors Ultee, the trainer of Fortuna, saw a ‘fighting match in which everyone wanted to fight’. “Except the referee: he didn’t want to make it into a fight”, he adds. “There was a lot of whistle. The two penalties are very defining moments in the match.” Ultee calls the first penalty kick ‘debatable’. The question was whether Gladon would have had free passage to the goal, he says. “I can’t really see if Martin Angha can still reach the ball. I think it remains debatable. You can say that Angha can join, you can say no. “
Ultee ‘can imagine’ that the VAR did not intervene when Kooij again pointed to the dot just before time. “Because there is contact. You can tell a whole story about whether it was light or heavy, but we do give the chance for a penalty. In both cases you really cannot say that nothing was wrong. That it was for us. feels heavy, is clear. I am realistic enough to realize that he did not come here with the idea that he wanted to keep Emmen in the Eredivisie, but sometimes you do have that feeling. Everything just went wrong. Every throw you think “You don’t get it. That’s more the feeling of the competition than blaming someone for being partial.”