Rafael van der Vaart and Pierre van Hooijdonk lashed out at Wout Weghorst on Saturday evening. The analysts did not understand the striker, who cheered exuberantly after he scored in the Nations League match against Hungary. Especially because of the predicament surrounding assistant coach Ádám Szalai.
The match between the Dutch national team and Hungary was shocked after Szalai suffered a medical accident. The match was halted for a long time due to the situation surrounding the assistant national coach of the Hungarians. Van der Vaart: ‘We were all in panic. Federal physician Edwin Goedhart reacted insanely. But I don’t want to go there…’
“We get a penalty immediately afterwards,” Van der Vaart continued at NOS. Immediately after the situation around Szalai had stabilized, the ball indeed hit the spot. Wout Weghorst took responsibility, scored and celebrated the opening goal exuberantly. ‘It’s such a difficult situation. When you score and cheer like that…’
“That gives me a stomach ache,” Van der Vaart said. ‘You see the other players watching too. It could have been a little less. The Hungarians discuss and continue, which is to be commended. Then we immediately score a penalty and then he starts cheering as if he scored the winning one in the World Cup final.’
Van Hooijdonk joined his partner. ‘A bit of subdued cheering would have been appropriate. No, this was not appropriate. We both hated this.’
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