Red card for Mike te Wierik costs FC Emmen the momentum against FC Groningen: “Many scenarios go through your head in advance, but this one was not included”

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Referee Serdar Gozubuyuk gives a red card to Mike te Wierik. FC Emmen has to continue with ten men against FC Groningen. Photo: ANP

It took some getting used to for Mike te Wierik. A few weeks ago he made his minutes for FC Groningen, now he entered the Euroborg in the shirt of FC Emmen, the club on the other side of the Hondsrug. It didn’t matter much if he walked into the dressing room of the home team on Saturday, entirely as usual. “Luckily that went just right,” he joked after the regional derby.

‘I didn’t want to hit him’

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