‘Recent Eredivisie match can be replayed after a major blunder by VAR’
Monday, February 12, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Dario van den Buijs’ penalty that was saved by Jasper Cillessen on Friday evening at RKC Waalwijk – NEC (2-0) had to be taken over incorrectly. Serdar Gözübüyük, the VAR on duty, ruled that NEC player Calvin Verdonk came in too early, but that turned out to be a major error of judgment. NEC could start an arbitration case. KRC Genk recently won a similar case in Belgium, after which the competition match against Anderlecht had to be replayed.
RKC received a penalty after twenty minutes of play on Friday. Van den Buijs saw his attempt from eleven meters saved by Cillessen, who, to his great frustration, was told by referee Jeroen Manschot that the penalty had to be retaken. The second attempt, taken by David Min, went in, leaving the score at 2-0. That was also the result.
In Good Morning Eredivisie on ESPN, Marciano Vink spoke about the striking moment. “You see that Verdonk is walking in, but if you zoom in closely – and they do that with VAR – you see that he has not yet entered the penalty area, but is still hanging above it,” said Vink.
Calvin Verdonk does not yet have his foot in the penalty area when Dario van den Buijs kicks the penalty.
Milan van Dongen, the talk show host, knows the rule. “You must have touched the ground with your foot before you can penalize overtaking,” said Van Dongen.
Vink finds it unacceptable. “The VAR is bitching about everything, for example about a toe-length offside. If you do that, you can’t just let this moment go,” says the former midfielder.
NEC can start an arbitration case following VAR Gözübüyük’s mistake.
Similar case in Belgium
A similar case recently occurred in Belgium. It concerned the match Anderlecht – KRC Genk (2-1) on December 23, in which a goal by Genk player Yira Sor was disallowed.
Sor scored from the rebound of a missed penalty, but was called back because he had entered too early. However, it had escaped the arbitration – including the VAR – that Anderlecht players had also caught up too early.
Genk then successfully approached the Disciplinary Council of Professional Football in Belgium. He ruled that the rules of the game had not been applied properly and that the influence of that error was so great that the match had to be replayed.
2024-02-12 05:35:00
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