hardly featured in the piece on Sunday afternoon in De Kuip. Ajax lost De Klassieker 6-0 to Feyenoord, which meant that the captain of the team from Amsterdam mainly had the ball when he had to take another kick-off. This produced a striking heat map.
Bergwijn was on the field in Rotterdam until the 77th minute on Sunday. At that time, Ajax’s captain could not make any progress. With seventeen passes sent and not a single goal attempt, Bergwijn was just an extra in De Kuip until his inglorious exit fifteen minutes before the end.
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Particularly striking about Bergwijn’s race was his heat map. It shows that he has mainly had possession of the ball in the center spot. That makes sense, because the attacker was the one on the Amsterdam side who was responsible for taking the kick-offs.
During the match, Bergwijn showed his worst side. The Ajax player tapped Bart Nieuwkoop on the back of the head just after half-time, but escaped a red card. On Monday morning it was announced that the attacker can no longer be suspended for the time being, because it was assessed by the referee during the match.
After Feyenoord’s sixth goal in the Classic against Ajax, scored by Igor Paixão in the 66th minute, an altercation took place between two Ajax players.
