According to Valentijn Driessen, Feyenoord will have to do without captain Steven Berghuis in two weeks’ time in the home game against Ajax. The winger received a direct red card in the game with Vitesse (0-0) on Sunday due to a foul on Maximilian Wittek. According to the chief of football The Telegraph Berghuis can count on at least two or three games of suspension. Marco van Basten and Dirk Kuyt are also taking into account a suspension of ‘multiple matches’.
With fifteen minutes left on the clock, Berghuis took down Wittek from behind with a kick on the calf of the Vitesse-back. “He has already blown a spot in the semifinal of the KNVB Cup due to a red card”, Driessen refers to his red card in the quarter finals of the cup tournament against sc Heerenveen. Berghuis got his second yellow card with a 1-3 lead and saw from the stands how his ten teammates went down 4-3. And now again. I don’t think Vitesse will give away this fourth place anymore. They should have lost, then Feyenoord would have gone over it. But he got another red card. Then it was over for Feyenoord, “said Driessen in a video on the newspaper’s website.
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Driessen saw that Feyenoord already had ‘a lot of trouble’ to make a fist against eleven Vitesse men. “This is killing them again. This will mean that Berghuis will also miss the match against Ajax. Because he gets at least two games for this, because he just kicked someone from behind. ” Feyenoord will visit ADO Den Haag next weekend, after which Ajax will visit on Sunday 9 May. “Teun Koopmeiners was previously red against Willem II and was only suspended for one match, so he could play against Ajax today (2-0, ed.). But this is a violation of at least two or three games. ”
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Driessen thinks he knows why Berghuis started the tackle on Wittek. “Short circuit. It can’t be anything but a short circuit. On Feyenoord TV he indicated together with his father in an interview that he occasionally goes over the edge. He understands that it is not possible. He understands that as a captain he has to take the lead in a normal way. But now and then there is suddenly a thread that comes loose. Then you get such a promotion. It was not necessary at all. I think it is in the character of Steven Berghuis and nobody will get that out “, Driessen concludes about the captain of the number five of the Eredivisie.
Also with Rondo Van Basten and Kuyt expect that Berghuis will be suspended for several matches. “I think it’s very bad. He is captain! What kind of behavior is this behavior to a captain? ”, Says Van Basten. “I think it’s really bad. He has had these kinds of reactions constantly over the years. He does not learn from it. I think that is doubtful. ” According to Khalid Boulahrouz, it is ‘just the way he is’. “Do you have to accept it then?” Van Basten wonders. “No, but maybe you should start wondering if he is in the right place. If you get these attacks so often that you are irritated or whatever … “
Kuyt saw that Berghuis was working on a strong series since the international period with the Dutch national team. “It’s such a shame that this is happening to him again. He has been doing very well in recent weeks. Only Steven Berghuis, I played with him, has a certain capriciousness. And he also needs that capriciousness to achieve that performance. Only this has to get out. Somehow he can’t. ” Van Basten indicates that he thinks it is strange that Berghuis cannot learn to remove such violations from his game. “He’s crossing the border. That is not good, “said the former international.