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Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 03:04 PM Feb 2017

PSV keepers own-goal blunder picked up by Hawk-Eye to crush title hopes

You've got to feel for the keeper here. His is a perfectly natural reaction after making a brilliant goal-line stop and no human eye could have spotted this. To add further insult to injury, this is the only such technology in Holland and has been at this stadium for only half the season. Of all the ways to potentially lose the title...



The PSV Eindhoven goalkeeper Jeroen Zoet has claimed he could not have done more to prevent his side from conceding the goal – given by goal-line technology by the finest of margins – in the 2-1 defeat by Feyenoord that all but ended PSV’s title hopes.

With the score 1-1, Zoet saved a close-range header from the Feyenoord defender Jan-Arie van der Heijden in the 82nd minute, but as he clutched the ball to his chest a screen on the referee Bas Nijhuis’s wrist lit up.

Nijhuis looked down, saw the word “goal” flashing on the screen and awarded the Dutch league leaders the winning goal in a 2-1 victory. The result on Sunday brought Feyenoord within reach of their first league title since 1999 and likely ended the two-times defending champions PSV’s title aspirations.

“This is seriously fucked up,” Zoet told the Dutch broadcaster NOS. “The goal-line technology made the difference and things could have been different if it had not.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/feb/27/psv-goalkeeper-goal-line-technology-feyenoord
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PSV keepers own-goal blunder picked up by Hawk-Eye to crush title hopes (Original Post) Ron Obvious Feb 2017 OP
It was difficult/impossible to see from the touchline shots. SwissTony Feb 2017 #1
Thanks; that's a better angle. Ron Obvious Feb 2017 #2
I've attached the NOS interview. It's in Dutch unfortunately. SwissTony Feb 2017 #3
Sounds like he said "heavy testicles"... ("zwaar kloten") Ron Obvious Feb 2017 #4

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
1. It was difficult/impossible to see from the touchline shots.
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 03:22 PM
Feb 2017

Someone posted some video on Twitter. A great blunder by the keeper.



 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
2. Thanks; that's a better angle.
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 05:14 PM
Feb 2017

Did the PSV keeper really say "This is seriously fucked up" during the post-game interview?

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
3. I've attached the NOS interview. It's in Dutch unfortunately.
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 05:50 PM
Feb 2017

and I'm not going to translate the interview. That line doesn't occur in this interview (which was sent out on TV) but he does suggest he had talked to someone before this interview. Or some editing occurred.




The PSV players weren't too happy even when the ref showed his "watch".

http://voetbalflitsen.be/wtf/a2bfe1/close-topper-in-nederland-beslist-door-van-der-heijden-en-doellijntechnologie
 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
4. Sounds like he said "heavy testicles"... ("zwaar kloten")
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 07:18 PM
Feb 2017

A euphemism considerably lighter and more family-friendly than "seriously fucked up".

From his point of view, it was undoubtedly heavy testicles to lose the match that way.

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