‘Escaped’ NEC defender Philippe Sandler: ‘I think the referee knows better than someone from Feyenoord or NEC’

The cup final flashed through Philippe Sandler’s mind when referee Serdar Gözübüyük was called to the screen by VAR Pol van Boekel. The referee had to look at a situation where Feyenoord striker Ayase Ueda went to the ground just outside the NEC sixteen after being stepped on by Sandler. “I thought for a moment: ‘You can’t mean that’.”

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