ESPNcommentator Vincent Schildkamp and analyst Kees Kwakman discuss in Football talk the ‘incomprehensible’ penalty from Fortuna Sittard player Mouhamed, on Thursday evening in the quarter-final of the KNVB Cup against FC Groningen. The attacker shot from eleven meters after a hesitant run-up over the defended goal of the home team, meaning that the Kitchen Champion Division club qualified for the semi-finals.
Kwakman was present as an analyst at the match in the Euroborg. In ice-cold Groningen he saw his former employer and the Limburgers put on a particularly poor performance. “Yes, I have warmed up again now. But it was terrible, such a bad match. Fortuna decided at half time not to lose, because they took Halilovic out. You still got a little warm when he got the ball , but Danny Buijs took him out and then it was completely over for Fortuna.”
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Still, he was able to enjoy the evening: “It was a nice atmosphere in Groningen. Another success: two relegates from last year in the semi-finals, you wouldn’t believe that, would you?”, he refers to SC Cambuur, which a day earlier, reached the last four of the cup tournament at the expense of Vitesse. Schildkamp agrees: “They often say: ‘A penalty series like that pays for everything’, but not yesterday. That wasn’t to get through that match, that was really, really bad. But it was entertaining for the Groningen supporters. .”
After 120 minutes of play, the score was still on the board, meaning the decision had to be taken on penalties. Luciano Valente shot over on behalf of the Groningen team, but because Oguzhan Özyakup’s attempt collided with Jurjus, Belkheir’s miss proved fatal for the Limburgers. Schildkamp: “It’s actually incomprehensible how you take such a last penalty. Is that perhaps high tension, that he falls back on such a strange run-up?” Kwakman can deny that: “He has already done it this season, when he shot it outside the post,” he refers to the home game against Sparta Rotterdam on January 13. “I also said afterwards: ‘Then you won’t do that again, will you?’ Then just take a run-up and then you can always miss him. Basically like Arianit Ferati and Romano Postema shot at him: Hard run-up, hard and high shot. “
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