Willem van Hanegem is in favor of it in his column Algemeen Dagblad about two things. The former trainer saw Santiago Gimenez miss a penalty during Feyenoord – FC Twente (0-0) and Michel Vlap waste an almost unmissable opportunity on behalf of the Tukkers.

“After the narrow win against Vitesse, I wrote a week ago that Giménez was becoming a bit of a problem in this form,” opens The Curve his weekly contribution. “I didn't say he is a nothing player, on the contrary. I have seen things from him that have proven the opposite.”

“But I expect a bit more from him in recent weeks. And that feeling was the same against FC Twente again. I'm not a psychologist, I don't know why, but the sharpness has been gone for a while. I saw one nice action on the side of the field, before half time. “A lot went wrong,” Van Hanegem also sees Gimenez going through a bad phase.

The former Feyenoord coach knows that Gimenez is being closely followed by foreign clubs, despite the poorer recent weeks. In that context he makes an appeal to the Mexican. “Where in Europe will supporters cheer him when he has missed a chance? Or when he misses a penalty for the second time?

“He has a luxury position in Rotterdam, even now no one from the club said out loud that he should stay away from the ball for a while if there is another penalty. He really doesn't find it anywhere that they are so crazy about him.”

Slap
Van Hanegem then brings up Vlap's stupid offside goal. “I have rarely seen what Michel Vlap achieved in professional football. I mean: you run towards Justin Bijlow with two players from FC Twente.”

“Then only one thing is important for the player without the ball: staying behind the ball. Not doing so is almost worse than missing a penalty,” Van Hanegem judges harshly about the failing Vlap. “This was so poorly done.”

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