The frustration is great at Arne Slot after the cup meeting between FC Twente and Feyenoord (2-1). The losing coach finds it incomprehensible that referee Serdar Gözübüyük added only two minutes of injury time at the end of extra time. Feyenoord had a number of great opportunities in the final phase, but mainly thanks to the outstanding Lars Unnerstall, Twente managed to reach the eighth final of the TOTO KNVB Cup.
“It is just very annoying that you get a huge opportunity in the last second”, Slot sighs afterwards in front of the camera of ESPN. “I thought two minutes wasn’t enough, but I’ve said before: I whine about that way too much. I almost find it annoying that you bring it up. But that’s what you get when I start about it myself last time. But it’s two minutes. minutes and then you get another corner at the end, and we could still take it. But he (Gözübüyük, ed.) whistled, and maybe that was also right. But I’ve seen substitutions and goal celebrations, I I have seen injury treatments. So I had hoped for something more, but that was a bit naive of me,” said the Feyenoord coach.
“I have to say: we could have played another half hour and then we might not have scored yet,” adds the bald Slot. “So that’s the other side of the coin.” The coach nevertheless draws hope from Feyenoord’s game against Twente in the run-up to Sunday’s Classic against Ajax, despite the early cup elimination. “It is not the case that we have to go to Sunday with nodding knees. But we also know that we will meet a very strong opponent with Ajax. We are very curious how we will arm ourselves against that.”
Goalkeeper Justin Bijlow puts on the robes afterwards. The Feyenoord goalkeeper says he made a mistake with Giovanni Troupée’s equalizer ten minutes before the end. Bijlow came out to clear the ball, but was not back in time. I saw that ball was knocked off to the side. I thought: he stays inside, so I wanted to shoot it. He was before and brings it back again. I should have just stood still,” admits the guilty Bijlow.