Ajax Amsterdam-Groningen Dutch league battle known as off after 9 minutes after smoke bombs thrown onto pitch

Amsterdam: The Dutch league battle between Ajax Amsterdam and already-relegated Groningen was halted after which known as off with solely 9 minutes on the clock, after fireworks had been twice thrown onto the pitch on Sunday.

In the sixth minute of the battle in Groningen smoke bombs had been thrown onto the sector. Shortly afterwards, a supporter ran onto the pitch with a banner calling for the ouster of the Groningen board, which seen the referee take the two teams off the pitch.

When they returned, smoke bombs had been thrown as soon as extra, ensuing within the match being known as off, in response to new Dutch soccer ideas launched in earlier closing month.

It adopted crowd violence inside the Dutch Cup semi-final between Feyenoord and Ajax Amsterdam in early April when a cigarette lighter thrown from the gang hit Ajax midfielder Davy Klaassen and scale back his head, inflicting a chronic delay to the match.

The Dutch soccer affiliation then decided that all matches may be stopped immediately if a participant or match official was hit by an object from the gang.

They moreover decided that if an object is thrown from the terraces nevertheless misses, play will most likely be briefly stopped with the players despatched to the dressing rooms. If the similar issue happens a second time, the match is to be immediately stopped.

The new ideas have carried out little to halt a rising disadvantage for the Dutch recreation. Three excessive flight matches on Friday and Saturday had been briefly halted because of objects thrown onto the sector.