lenient

maybe

a little too lenient every now and then, but there was hardly any dissent and no going after a player after a foul kind of stuff. OK, once and that player got booked.

match

5 goals and still Heerenveen were kicked out of the Europa League. Ventspils didn't seem to grasp that there was one player who gave almost all the assists. With a lenient ref they could have done something about it.