Slot fears the worst and quickly pulls sulking Hartman to the side


Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 3:33 PM• Rian Rosendaal

For Quilindschy Hartman it is a classic to quickly forget. The left back, who returned to Feyenoord’s starting line-up after illness, was replaced by coach Arne Slot against Ajax after just 24 (!) minutes. Hartman was replaced by Marcos López on the left side of the Feyenoord defence. The leader was already 0-1 after five minutes, but went into the break with a 2-1 deficit.

Hartman’s start was still promising: in the fifth minute the wing defender gave a lead from the left to Santiago Giménez, who scored the 0-1 from close range. A minute later, however, referee Danny Makkelie drew a yellow card for Hartman after a serious foul on Steven Bergwijn. The Johan Cruijff ArenA screamed for a second yellow, and therefore a red card, for the Feyeno player after a hard tackle on Mohammed Kudus, his direct opponent. Makkelie kept the cards in his pocket, although he did give Hartman his last warning.

Slot feared the worst and urged López to start his warm-up quickly. A few minutes later, the left back from Peru relieved the unlucky Hartman, who sat down on the reserve bench visibly dissatisfied. Ajax had already leveled the score at that time thanks to Edson Álvarez. Dusan Tadic signed for the 2-1 lead of the team from Amsterdam eight minutes before the halftime signal.

“I would have found a second yellow card too quickly in this phase, so it was solved well by Danny Makkelie”, Marciano Vink refers to ESPN to the fact that Hartman was allowed to stand after the foul on Kudus. “An inexperienced referee might have blown the whistle by the book and given boom yellow,” adds Karim El Ahmadi. “But I also think it’s good, he (Makkelie, ed.) Also reads the game well.”