“AZ is then a victim, who has to qualify for the Europa League qualifying round”

On Tuesday night, Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced at a press conference that football should not be played in the Netherlands until September 1. The season in the Eredivisie and Cooking Champions Division appears to be permanently canceled as a result and Valentijn Driessen expects the KNVB to announce the decision on Friday. The soccer boss From Telegraaf considers that the European places should be divided according to the 2018/19 ranking.

“The KNVB can only decide one thing on Friday: Due to the current state, a large cross must be made,” Driessen said Wednesday afternoon in an analysis of the state of the Eredivisie. “It simply declares this competition null and void, because you can find all sorts of things, but the KNVB has created an administrative precedent. In amateur football, all games have been declared unplayed, so you must do it in professional football.” .

“Then there are victims, but certainly there is no arbitrariness,” Driessen continues. “Then everyone knows what to expect. With arbitrariness, you get clubs very quickly to go to court. If you say to ADO Den Haag (current number seventeen, ed.): ‘You are relegated,’ they immediately say,” But we still There are eight games left to play safely, you can’t let them relegate us. “Driessen immediately finds a solution.” Just consider that the league was not played and return to June 1, 2019. And from then on we will continue. ”

In that case, Ajax, last season’s champion, will go directly to the Champions League. “PSV will go to the preliminary round of the Champions League and Feyenoord, AZ and FC Utrecht to the preliminary round of the Europa League,” said Driessen, who also knows what to do with relegation places. “ADO and RKC Waalwijk (number eighteen, ed.) Will stay there and SC Cambuur and De Graafschap will not be promoted. That would be the fairest story. Then, eighteen teams will continue to play in the Eredivisie and not twenty.”

Driessen understands that AZ is not happy with the permanent scrapping of the current year, as coach Arne Slot’s team, on points (56), equal to the league leader Ajax, finished fourth last season. “The KNVB has to show leadership, but of course there are victims. AZ is, of course, a victim. They will play the preliminary round of the Europa League, while they are now in a place that takes them to the preliminary round of the League of Champions. They had a great season. ” but in the end they have to do it only with compliments. Of course, you don’t buy bread for that. ”

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