A typical Portuguese ‘sewing region’. Just point to the referee after you have just knocked down around the center line. It resulted in a second yellow card for the son of PSV icon Mark van Bommel.
Yet the criticism strikes firmly. The Portuguese attacker went very easily to the ground. The Netherlands – Portugal was not the game of Ruben van Bommel, who was presented with his second yellow card after twenty minutes and could leave.
So on appeal, from the Portuguese attacker, who eagerly went to the ground. And so criticize the still young Van Bommel, despite the fact that Oranje stopped quite easily with 10 against 11 Portuguese.
The criticism is very easy to mention when we listen to Jan van Halst and Khalid Boulahrouz. Van Halst and Boulahrouz were very critical of Ruben van Bommel as analytics at Ziggo Sport in the peace of the quarterfinals between the Dutch Juniors and Young Portugal.
Van Bommel received two yellow cards for tackles in a period of two minutes. Van Halst did not have a good word for the AZ attacker. ‘This is really so unprofessional. Here you are really busy for yourself. He really has to be careful because you become really unreliable as a player. For the technical staff, for your fellow players. An opponent now also gets on: we lure that Van Bommel out of the tent. “
For Van Halst it is not true that it is a learning moment at a European Championship under-21. ‘These are no longer boys of sixteen, isn’t it? They are full professionals and they have been running for a few years. As a twelve -year -old you have already experienced that once, but no longer at this age, “says Van Halst, who himself was not afraid of a big tackle.
“This is how he is, this is his football character,” explains Boulahrouz. “This is just stupid. I saw it in the sixteenth minute when he hit the ball out of irritation after a ball from Portugal. I said then: he is irritated. You can discuss the first yellow card. But someone is already walking with his second yellow card. The three of them can enclose Quenda. This is not a necessity, it’s not one against one, “says Ziggo.
