Ajax’s incredible title collapse came to fruition on the final day as Wout Weghorst vented his fury.
The former Manchester United and Burnley striker scored in a 2-0 win over FC Twente, but it wasn’t enough to stop PSV from making it back-to-back championships.
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He was joined on the scoresheet by captain Jordan Henderson who grabbed his first for the Amsterdam giants in a painful afternoon.
Ajax previously possessed a nine-point Eredivisie lead over PSV with five games but then hit a four-match winless run to even things out.
They could’ve clinched the title with three to play when PSV were 2-0 down against Feyenoord, but not only did Peter Bosz’s champions fight back to win, but Ajax also lost 3-0 to minnows NEC.
They still had the title in their own hands, but an equaliser from Groningen in the ninth minute of stoppage time in the penultimate game of the season made it a one-point advantage to PSV, who got the job done in the finale.
Ajax’s squad were forced to face the ultras after their embarrassing collapse, and as a camera followed them, Weghorst angrily slapped it away.
He was asked if he regretted the moment, and rejected that idea, also referring to his tears following the NEC defeat.
”It is a very beautiful moment in which we are sung to, then I think it is a great pity that the team is not just simply shown on camera,” the Dutch striker said.
”It’s emotion. I think it’s a shame that the camera always has to be on me.
“From the very first second, the camera was focused on me again.
“On Wednesday, it became too much for me in Groningen and I quickly ran inside.
“I also experienced the consequences of that. Now I didn’t feel the need to be on camera again.”
Their Eindhoven rivals had a scare in their match when Sparta Rotterdam cancelled out Ivan Perisic’s opener, but captain and former Newcastle man Luuk de Jong was able to put them back ahead in a 3-1 title-clinching win.
Expressing the sheer shock at Ajax’s collapse, PSV captain De Jong said: “It’s a bizarre championship, we had already given up hope.
“I had already indicated in interviews that we will be disappointed for the rest of our lives that we will not become champions.”
Discussing the game itself, he said: “It got exciting for a while, didn’t it? When it gets exciting, we have to score the goals.
“In the first half, everything was fine, then it becomes 1-1 and you think: ‘It can’t be that kind of day, can it?’
“We just played well, but then you still have to score that goal. When it’s 1-3, you know it’s over.”
Former Tottenham and Inter Milan man Perisic was just as stunned.
“Thanks to Feyenoord , because they kept pushing us from third place,” he said.
“We kept fighting for second place and took advantage of Ajax ‘s loss of points.
“We were there until the last day. In the end, this was deserved. The best football, at the beginning and at the end of this season.
“We lost some points in the middle, but in the end we are the best team in the Netherlands.”
