Furious Peter Bosz explains exactly why Ruben van Bommel does not appear in front of the camera after Ajax - PSV

Peter Bosz jumped to Ruben van Bommel's defence after Ajax v PSV (1-3). The PSV forward flew in at high speed on Aaron Bouwman, sparking a flare-up.

"When that happened, I initially thought their heads had collided," Bosz says in front of the ESPN camera. "But that was not the case. I've just come from seeing Ruben, who was sitting in the dressing room upset. He was the only one who did not join in the celebrations in the dressing room."

Bosz then defends Van Bommel. "This was not his intention. When you see how that boy (Bouwman, ed.) leaves the pitch, that is not nice. Did I think it was a red card? I find that difficult. Of course he is my player, but I see the ball pop up, he sprints towards it, and at the last moment he sees that their heads could well collide. At least, that is what Ruben has just told me. That is why he turned his body in."

"He goes in at high speed, and it looks terrible," Bosz admits. "If he had not turned his body, both of you would have gone face-first into each other. Only with Van Bommel, it is like running into a wall, because he is so strong. He works on that every day, you cannot blame him for that. He protects himself, the other boy does not."

ESPN reporter Milan van Dongen then suggests that Van Bommel could also have come in front of the camera himself with an explanation, so that it would "take the sting out of it". "Yes, but I hear there are people in your studio who also have an opinion on it and are saying very strange things," Bosz fires back.

"Dragging families into it... You should not do that. Just like those scuffles with us, this should not happen," Bosz said. The PSV coach was referring to remarks by Hugo Borst, who had launched a fierce attack on Van Bommel a little earlier. He called it, among other things, "an attempted murder" and advised the left winger to see a psychiatrist.

"He's a chip off the old block," Borst responds later after hearing Bosz's reaction. "We all know what kind of footballer Mark van Bommel was. He would proverbially walk over dead bodies. I see that in Ruben as well. He can lose his head, do something nobody else would think of. And that is why I also think it is a shame what Bosz says about it," he says, sticking to his standpoint.