PSV could have easily conceded a penalty in the final phase of the match against Heracles Almelo. Mike Verweij states this in the Kick-off podcast The Telegraph.
“I think that if it had happened the other way around, it would be a typical top club penalty,” Verweij begins in the podcast Kick-off. “If it had been 4-3 for Heracles and PSV had had such a moment, the ball would have gone 100 percent on the spot. The keeper comes rushing out. Benita heads that ball past him and there is a collision,” Verweij looks back.
Driessen shares a different opinion. “I don’t think it’s a penalty, because the keeper is standing still at that moment. Benita walks forward and runs into the keeper. But if you stand still, you are in principle not doing anything wrong. If that is already a violation, it becomes very difficult.” Verweij sticks to his position. “But he just catches it. For me that is really a penalty.”
The Telegraaf colleagues do agree about the moments during the match between NEC and Telstar (2-2), last Saturday. “NEC should really feel screwed. That was not a penalty, there was nothing wrong with it,” Driessen says about the penalty that Telstar received, but ultimately missed.
Deep into injury time, a NEC goal was also disallowed. “I didn’t like that push either.” Verweij shares that opinion. “I think that if they had not blown the whistle, the VAR would have allowed the goal to stand. I understand that the VAR says that they cannot provide clarity, because there is contact. Then the VAR thinks they will support the referee.”
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