Shortly after Dusan Tadic’s late equalizer against PSV (1-1), the flames hit the pan. Tadic provoked Dumfries, who had caused the penalty kick with an unfortunate handball. Right after the final whistle, Tadic and Dumfries got into a fight and the furious PSV wing defender even had to be stopped. However, Dumfries was soon calm enough to explain why he was so angry at the scoring Tadic.
Shortly after the final whistle, Pascal Kamperman puts the matter to the visibly frustrated Dumfries: “Denzel we haven’t seen you so angry in ages. Why do you get so angry?” Asks the reporter. ESPN to the PSV defender. Dumfries immediately comes up with a very clear answer. “I don’t want to point the finger or something, but you shouldn’t talk about my mother”, he refers to an alleged insult by Dusan Tadic at his address. “I don’t appreciate that, you just shouldn’t do that. That doesn’t belong on the football field or next to it. I know what he (Tadic, ed.) Says and you shouldn’t do that. If you want to call me names, fine, but don’t say things like that. “
“Then it’s about Tadic”, Kamperman continues, to which Dumfries gives a clear answer: “Of course.” The right back, who wanted to get Tadic out of his concentration with the penalty kick by destroying the penalty spot, was already furious with the attacker of Ajax. “It started before that. I can take a lot, but you shouldn’t talk about my mother. Clear, simple. After that goal was that moment.” Analyst Arnold Bruggink then asks whether there is also frustration at Dumfries about the European elimination on Thursday and the late equalizer of Ajax, which again hurt PSV’s title chances.
“Of course it is frustrating, you think you make the 2-0 (disallowed because of a handball, ed.), Then you think the game is over. I thought both teams thought it was over, but we stayed. It’s just a shame in the end, just like Thursday. It’s just frustrating that things go wrong again in the last minute, “said the disappointed Dumfries, who incidentally only received a yellow card for his handball in the PSV penalty area.
After Tadic used his penalty kick shortly afterwards with a high shot through the middle of the goal, he immediately turned and headed towards Dumfries. The captain of Ajax was mainly stopped by Davy Klaassen, but kept shouting at PSV’s right back. Referee Danny Makkelie called Tadic for an interview, in which the attacker had to justify himself. His tantrum did not get him a yellow card.