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It would have been close if Joey Veerman had been suspended for the final of the TOTO KNVB Cup. The midfielder was on edge during the semi-final between Go Ahead Eagles and PSV (1-2), something he himself did not know. In the final phase, Veerman committed a foul on Marc Cardona near the halfway line, for which he feared he would receive a yellow card from referee Pol van Boekel.
“You just got the shock of your life, didn’t you?” said Hans Kraay junior when Veerman was in front of the camera afterwards. ESPN was standing. “Yes, yes”, Veerman responded. He was on edge, because he received a yellow card during the cup match between AFC and sc Heerenveen (1-2) earlier this season. “I just heard, yes. At minute 82 I think I’m still holding up well. In the end he does give a free kick, but luckily I didn’t get a yellow card. And I didn’t even know I was on edge.”
It was close or match winner Joey Veerman had to miss the cup final… “Didn’t know I was on edge”#gaepsv pic.twitter.com/9J0934zuid
— ESPN NL (@ESPNnl) March 2, 2022
“He said just off camera here that he still wanted to ask Bas Roorda (PSV team manager, ed.). He said: ‘I thought I hadn’t had a yellow card’. But he did have one. “, said Kees Kwakman in response to the interview with Veerman. “Actually, as a team manager, you should tell everyone in advance who is on the alert. Because that match against AFC was somewhere in September, so it’s not entirely strange that he has lost that somewhat. He just gets away with it very well. that player lies down, he simply has a yellow card. Then he is cheering afterwards…”
Veerman scored the winning goal in the Adelaarshorst twenty minutes before the end. “It’s never a drop, always places. I could have scored a goal in the first half and already after the break, so it was about time”, Veerman said about his goal. “It was a good cross on their goal, but that was their only chance. We had some opportunities in the first half and after that red card you know you’re going to win that game.”
“Then you play with better players, then you also play better football yourself”, Veerman grinned when it was stated that he played a good game in Deventer. “I also had that at Heerenveen, and I hope to have that here too. In my opinion, my period at Heerenveen lasted half a year too long, I was ready for the next step, although I had a wonderful time there. At PSV I get the ball higher on the field, and that’s nice for me, because then you can reach the goal faster of course.”
