As the ball bounced towards Bouwman, 19, PSV star Ruben van Bommel leapt in aggressively and wiped out his opponent.<\/p>\n
Bouwman hit the ground with a tremendous amount of force as several furious Ajax players ran towards Van Bommel to confront him.<\/p>\n
As fights ensued between the two teams, medical staff rushed to Bouwman\u2019s aid \u2014 before he was sent to hospital after the game.<\/p>\n
Van Bommel was only shown a yellow card for the incident.<\/p>\n
Ajax later issued a statement confirming Bouwman has sustained injuries to his sternum and lung, and that he will be sideline for a month.<\/p>\n
The four-time European champions said: \u201cAaron Bouwman will not be in action again during the month of September.<\/p>\n
\u201cExaminations showed that Bouwman suffered several injuries, including bruising to his sternum and a bruised lung.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe remains in hospital on Sunday for observation. Get well soon, Aaron!\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Bommel, the son of Netherlands legend Mark van Bommel, was said to be devastated by his own actions.<\/p>\n
PSV director of football Earnest Stewart said: \u201cAfter the match, he (Van Bommel) went into Ajax\u2019s dressing room to apologise. Emotions came into it as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Commentator Hugo Borst described the challenge as an \u201cassassination attempt,\u201d before social media broke out in a frenzy.<\/p>\n
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Futboldur Hayat said: \u201cAttempted murder in the Dutch league. PSV\u2019s Van Bommel dived headfirst at Bouwman. Bouwman narrowly escaped death.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dan added: \u201cRidiculous that he didn\u2019t get a red.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robin reacted: \u201cDon\u2019t let Van Bommel play anymore as long as Bouwman hasn\u2019t recovered.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mats responded: \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since I saw such an idiotic foul. This could have ended so much worse for Bouwman.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Birazz Futbol said: \u201cA mind-boggling moment in Dutch football!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outrage has rocked soccer after a horrific collision sparked a mass brawl as a teenage star was rushed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[412417,453214,453203,290352,10025,453196,453216,453218,376766,453221,453220,453193,451477,376769,453205,453188,453213,603,453190,25908,22717,453182,453219,453191,154807,38294,64,63,453187,453202,317329,108374,453222,23689,1300,453189,17108,453195,453199,22926,453217,453184,453197,453215,453186,4727,4082,12979,431889,62756,377208,34512,453185,4742,453209,111386,75351,382196,453198,453183,79674,453210,453181,43157,453200,453211,13198,1314,85,4031,453207,8825,377205,381352,382194,453201,320297,453206,453208,380235,74713,453194,377511,453192,377633,453204,380148,390523,410513,34537,376533,389900,453212,377211],"class_list":["post-883450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-s-aid","tag-s-dressing-room","tag-s-van-bommel","tag-10-minutes","tag-10025","tag-a-bruised-lung","tag-a-frenzy-futboldur-hayat","tag-a-horrific-collision","tag-a-long-time","tag-a-mass-brawl","tag-a-mind-boggling-moment","tag-a-month-the-four-time-european-champions","tag-a-red","tag-a-statement","tag-a-teenage-star","tag-a-tremendous-amount","tag-a-yellow-card","tag-aaron","tag-aaron-bouwman","tag-action","tag-ajax","tag-ajax-3-1","tag-ajax-youngster-aaron-bouwman","tag-an-assassination-attempt","tag-assassination-attempt","tag-attempted-murder","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-birazz-futbol","tag-bouwman","tag-bruising","tag-chaos","tag-commentator-hugo-borst","tag-dan","tag-death","tag-dutch-football","tag-emotions","tag-examinations","tag-football-earnest-stewart","tag-force","tag-him-as-fights","tag-his-opponent-bouwman","tag-his-own-actions-psv-director","tag-his-sternum","tag-his-sternum-and-lung","tag-horror","tag-hospital","tag-injuries","tag-just-1-as","tag-kayo","tag-kayo-sports-new","tag-lung-injury","tag-mats","tag-medical-staff","tag-netherlands-legend-mark-van-bommel","tag-observation","tag-outrage","tag-overseas-live","tag-psv","tag-psv-star-ruben-van-bommel","tag-robin","tag-rocks-sport","tag-saturday-but","tag-september","tag-several-furious-ajax-players","tag-several-injuries","tag-soccer","tag-social-media","tag-sports","tag-star","tag-such-an-idiotic-foul","tag-sunday","tag-the-ball","tag-the-best","tag-the-biggest-aussie-sports","tag-the-biggest-games","tag-the-challenge","tag-the-dutch-league","tag-the-dutch-league-season","tag-the-floor","tag-the-game","tag-the-game-van-bommel","tag-the-ground","tag-the-incident-ajax","tag-the-injuries","tag-the-johan-cruyff-arena","tag-the-match","tag-the-month","tag-the-son","tag-the-star","tag-the-story","tag-the-two-teams","tag-van-bommel","tag-your-first-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}