Roger Schmidt has the absence of Olivier Boscagli in the first match against FC Midtjylland entirely to himself, according to Wesley Sneijder. On Wednesday evening, Boscagli received two yellow cards in the second half of PSV’s return match against Galatasaray, as a result of which he is suspended for the first meeting in the third preliminary round of the Champions League. According to Sneijder, Schmidt should have changed his pupil after the first yellow card.
Boscagli was booked for a handball in minute 65 and committed a foul on Mbaye Diagne nine minutes later. Sneijder did not think the first yellow card for Boscagli was justified. Galatasaray shoots at goal and the ball just happens to hit his hand. Keep it going,” he says. The second picture was well deserved in his eyes. “I think that’s super stupid, both from the player and from Schmidt. If you really want to use that boy next week, you’re going to take him off, right? You’re leading 7-1! Then it was beautiful, wasn’t it?”
PSV see Olivier Boscagli receive his second yellow card of the evening ??
The Frenchman will therefore be missing next week in the first game against Celtic or Midtjylland.#UCL #GALPSV pic.twitter.com/tyHdCAs4a9
— VTBL ? (@vtbl) July 28, 2021
“Although you have to put a striker in the back, if you don’t have a central defender. But I think Nick Viergever was on the bench. Schmidt can blame himself,” Sneijder judges. Analyst Marciano Vink shares the same opinion via Twitter. “Why wait so long to transfer… Now an unnecessary red card!” he wrote during the match. Ron Vlaar also finds the red print unnecessary.” He gives the referee an opportunity to give it. I just think it’s a shame,” says the former defender in the studio of RTL7.
Schmidt is featured in an interview with RTL7 not asked why he let Boscagli stand, but in his opinion about the absence of the Frenchman. “Olivier and André Ramalho have played two fantastic games. It is unfortunate that he had these two moments. We have to do without him now, but we have good replacements with Nick Viergever, Armando Obispo and Jordan Teze, so we have some options. “