Foreign media have been highly critical of Wednesday’s cup tie between Feyenoord and Ajax. A Feyenoord fan threw a lighter at Ajax’s Davy Klaassen. This match was described as a new low, an embarrassing and derailed rivalry, among other things.
The semifinals were “overshadowed by incident”, reported The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. German newspapers reported that a player was injured and the match had to be suspended early due to smoke rising from the fireworks. German newspaper Picture spoke of “embarrassing” and “bad events” during cup games.
Belgian newspaper Morning spoke of the botched match and “a black night at De Kuip”. Also Latest news talk about the “black night”. The paper found it surprising that Feyenoord hung up a net “to prevent something like this from happening”, but “precisely” in the part where it was thrown at Klaassen there was no net. That part is left open so that the camera can capture the duel better.
Australian Fox Sports wrote that “all boundaries are over” when a player bleeds from a support attack while “fierce competition turns sour”. With the incident, “the biggest rivalry in Dutch football has hit a new low,” reports Fox Sport. In Italy have La Gazzetta dello Sport talk of “chaos” and “absurd incidents”.
The British tabloids also spoke of “chaos” in Rotterdam. De Kuip complied Daily mail known as “enemy territory” to the visiting team. The tabloid said that the match had previously been temporarily suspended because fans threw objects onto the pitch. Classic ends according Daily mail In “shameful joke”. Daily Star wrote that Klaassen had the “last laugh” as Ajax won the game 1-2.
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