Match #16 Denmark : Belgium Thursday, 17 June 2021 18:00 local time (12:00 EDT) Copenhagen Referee: Björn Kuipers (NED) AR1: Sander van Roekel (NED) AR2: Erwin Zeinstra (NED) Fourth Official: Andreas Ekberg (SWE) Video Assistant Referee: Pol van Boekel (NED) AVAR 1: Sander van Roekel (NED) AVAR 2: Erwin Zeinstra (NED) AVAR 3: François Letexier (FRA)
There appear to be lots of open seats. It’s just hard to tell with everyone standing and everyone mostly in red and red seats but it’s definitely more than half full.
I heard announcers on the official broadcast say they increased admittance from 16 000 to 25 000, which is half the capacity (50 000) of Parken Stadium.
13,790 was attendance against Finland. Capacity is over 38,000. I don't think we are in the 35% range right now. I'm sure there is or will be reporting on it if there was a change. So just speculation on my part right now.
I love how Kuipers can go minutes at time doing nothing more than a light jog and always be exactly where he needs to be.
Weird foul call from Kuipers at 57'. I don't think he gets any complaints if he points the other direction so he must have been convinced by what he thought he saw. Don't think he was correct, though! Then a good yellow card a minute later that helps make everyone forget about it.
Good simulation caution. And announcer takes the words out of my mouth... embellishing in VAR era is one thing, but diving is totally different. Eventually people might learn.
At about 68 minutes, really stupid move by the GK Bel GK to shove an opponent while holding the ball. Regardless of what the opponent had done, stupid way to give an opening for a PK (of course, not given, play continued, which was probably right for this level but at my level I think there has to be a call, almost certainly against the attacker for interfering with the GK). The caution for the dive a moment later was a bit perplexing. It was such a horribly ineffective dive in terms of suggesting a PK (especially in the world of VAR) that I thought it must have been an honest slip. But then he didn't complain about the card . . .
That was a designed kick off of Kuipers to get the dropped ball in double coverage. Then a very flippant execution of dropped ball. Lol.
For several moments I was unsure he wasn't giving IFK. When he "dropped" it, it was like he'd just remembered/been reminded. De Bruyne and Lukaku being on the same team is probably going to get its own IFAB decision.
I'd love to see his mileage vs. his heat map for this game. As you said, he just rarely finds himself out of position. It's uncanny.
The attendance at Denmark vs. Belgium was 23,395, but according to some of the players it seemed and sounded more like 75,000
I could watch kuipers all day. And I want a silver valkeen. It’s like that simulation call- it’s an easy call if you are wide, but, like many calls in the left corner, it’s not if you aren’t.