European side make 8 substitutions in a single match 🤯 | OneFootball

Football, it has changed...

Incredible and historic situation in the Netherlands this Wednesday evening!

The first division team, Go Ahead Eagles, which also competes in the Europa League and faced Olympique Lyonnais last week, was playing against Roda in the Dutch Cup.

The next opponent of OGC Nice in the Europa League made eight substitutions during this match: an exceptional situation! 

Already, during the 90 minutes of regular time, Go Ahead Eagles made their maximum of five substitutions. So far, so good, we're following...

But the match went into extra time. And during the additional 30 minutes, Oskar Sivertsen, a player from Go Ahead Eagles, and Koen Jansen, a player from Roda, had a violent collision, injuring both of them on the head. 

Go Ahead Eagles thus replaced their injured player using their "concussion substitution," allowing the replacement of a player injured in the head. Immediately after, the club used their "additional substitution," the extra allowed during extra time. So that's seven substitutions!

Ten minutes after the first "concussion substitution," Roda used theirs to take out Koen Jansen, their player injured in the collision with Oskar Sivertsen. However, the rules state that if a "concussion substitution" is used, the opposing team automatically benefits from an additional substitution.

Go Ahead Eagles took advantage of this to make their eighth and final substitution!

Completely crazy, right?

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.

📸 JEFF PACHOUD - AFP or Licensors