Ajax coach Heitinga tries to avoid ‘the incident’ afterwards: “We’re going to be talking about this for quite a long time”

Where Feyenoord captain Orkun Kökcü and Feyenoord coach Arne Slot gave detailed answers about the incident, John Heitinga kept his mouth shut. After more than an hour of playing, Davy Klaassen got a lighter on his head and suffered a serious wound. According to Heitinga, his injured pupil was the first player to speak out to resume the match. “Klaassen really wanted to continue playing.”

Shame

Behind the press table, Slot found it difficult to express himself in the right way for this pitch-black football evening. Nevertheless, the Rotterdam coach expressed himself in a wise way with an appropriate tone for the sadness of a number of Feyenoord fans. “I can’t find the right word for what I feel about this.”

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Focus on football

Afterwards, Heitinga preferred to talk about winning and reaching the final. “We already had the feeling today that we would win here tonight.” PSV will be the opponent in De Kuip on Sunday 30 April. The Amsterdam coach thought that afterwards there were too many questions about the incident. “I think other people should take a critical look at this and we want to focus on football.”

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Things went well with Klaassen himself afterwards. The battered Ajax player appeared in front of various cameras afterwards. And Heitinga also said that he was doing well again. “That’s the most important thing to me.”

On Sunday Ajax will resume the competition with a home match against Fortuna Sittard at 4.45 pm.