Although NAC Breda defender Jan Van den Bergh is in his first season in the Eredivisie, the 30-year-old Belgian is already close to a competition record. However, it’s fair to say that the NAC man might not want to be associated with this record.
Van den Bergh picked up a yellow card after 27 minutes in the home match against PEC Zwolle on Sunday. That was already his 11th yellow card of the season.
He is now just one card away from the competition record, which is shared by Guy Ramos (RKC Waalwijk, 2011-12), Joeri de Kamps (NAC Breda, 2014-15), Cristián Cuevas (FC Twente, 2017-18) and Tom Beugelsdijk (ADO Den Haag, 2018-19).
In the Eredivisie, you get suspended after five yellow cards. This happens again after the first suspension, but after the tenth yellow card, every subsequent offence immediately results in a match ban. Van den Bergh returned from a suspension against PEC, but now has to sit on the penalty bench yet again for his side’s clash with Fortuna Sittard on Saturday.
After the match against Fortuna, NAC will play away against NEC in the last week of the season and at home against Willem II. Van den Bergh can write Eredivisie history in that final week, but will undoubtedly do his best to avoid that.
GBeNeFNÂ |Â Max Bradfield
