To be honest, I had already taken them into account, because Dennis Higler really likes to give them. But I had a very bad feeling at that penalty kick that Ajax just brought past RKC. If you’ve played football yourself, you know exactly what happens there. Antony deliberately steps into Luuk Wouters’ tackle, he no longer follows the logical path behind the ball. Then there is contact and then the ball hits the dot with Higler. Provided that Wouters could of course have kept on his feet better, this is a typical case of deliberately looking for a penalty. If I was a referee, I wouldn’t have given it. But at Higler, you just know that these kinds of things lead to success.
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