The left-back overcame heart surgery and now shines at Fortuna Sittard after
BREAKING through at the wrong time with Brighton
George Cox knows how Erling Haaland feels, having spent the previous night watching Borussia Dortmund get ripped apart at the Johan Cruyff Arena. The defender’s Fortuna Sittard side have regularly succumbed to Ajax, including a 5-2 defeat in Amsterdam last season. Where Cox and Haaland differ is the former Brighton man scored twice.
A 30-yard first-time strike too hot for André Onana to handle and a second pinged across the goalkeeper into the corner made people take notice of the impact Cox was having in the Eredivisie. “After that game, my phone had never gone so mental, it was baking hot,” Cox says. “It didn’t sink in until a day after that I had scored two against Ajax at their stadium. Still to this day people ask me about it and it will be one of those moments that will stay with me for ever.”