Heerenveen keeper Andries Noppert is disappointed: “I estimate the ball wrong”

The 31-year-old Noppert, five-time Orange-international, was ‘very disappointed with the result’, he said in conversation with ESPN. “I estimate the ball wrong, I think that is clear. Then you have to pick yourself back. I think that has succeeded nicely, but it does not produce any results.”

With that incorrectly estimated ball, Noppert referred to a durable shot by Brynjólfur Willumsson, which the keeper could not grab. Deep in injury time, Willumsson also provided the winning goal and an explosion of joy in the Euroborg.

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Andries Noppert explains what went wrong

“There was a kind of swab in that shot, but then you have to process the ball even better. I don’t do it well. We’ll give it up. In the second half we could give it away as a team. We could have made a second or a third. There were many high balls and then you get the lid on the nose in the 94th minute. That hurts.