No names on any of the quotes so there’s a fair chance it’s all made up. It’s a crap team that is going through a tough spell of games so I’m not surprised the media are looking to stir up some controversy. Either way, this looks like a hard game and they really can’t afford to drop more points. I’d...

Agreed. Being in the playoffs would be a total embarrassment, and I’m not even that confident Ajax would win. Have to aim for 4th.

Imagine how Bodo/Glimt fans would feel if Ajax won the conference league

They kept it much tighter especially after Kaplan came on. They only gave away 3 shots on goal. Personally I’d be happy to see them stick with 3 CDs at least for the Utrecht game and the West Ham tie. I think the only players I *do* want to see in Ajax are Brobbey and maybe Hato, although Hato also ...

Ha. Sutalo has improved - instead of passing the ball straight to the opposition, he passes it over the sideline.

I’m guessing Kaplan will get some minutes in the next couple of eredivisie matches if the plan is for him to play against Villa.

Aston Villa. Can’t remember the last time we beat an English side in a knockout tie. Doubt this will be the one time we do.

A total steal. 3 shots on goal and 2 goals - that’s if you count Taylor’s goal as a shot (I’m not convinced). Again we concede more than 20 shots.

A win is always good in Europe but I can’t see them getting much further in this comp.

@Oranje, we know things are bad if you don’t expect Ajax to win! B/G are nothing special so we may get through. I hope so, but looking at the teams in the next round it doesn’t seem likely we would get much further anyway. Kickoff is at 4:45 a.m. my time, I won’t bother watching live but will try to...

16 shots total, 9 on target for NEC and 4 for Ajax. In a home game. I don’t know what you can say about that.

Is it just me or has Ajax conceded a lot of goals to players who were subbed on in the second half?

Ha. I think was the ball and the NEC attacker so that would be a correct call.

Ramaj didn’t look great on either goal, particularly the first one, you can’t have your keeper diving out like that and not making contact with the ball.

NEC have had the better of the match and they could be leading but their attackers are poor.

Weirdly, there were a couple of moments in the first half where Ajax pressed well. I’ve barely seen that this season. Didn’t lead to chances though.

HT at Utrecht- Twente and they said on TV Banel is starting at LW.

Canal Digitaal has been working for me with a VPN although it seems to depend on device. I can’t get it to work on my Linux desktop but it does work from Chrome on a tablet. Streams are HD and you can replay on demand. I also have IPTV (same network at the one Oranje mentioned). It’s ok but the qual...

Thanks for posting that, it’s how I see it too. Whoever came in after ten Hag was always going to be blamed. The frustrating thing for me is the way the club deals with it. They dumped Schreuder and it didn’t change anything. This season they dumped Steijn and as far as I can see not much has change...

Orange14 schreef: Berghuis (5.5) - pretty bad game UNTIL the great chip to even the score in added time

This is fair, without the goal he gets a 3 from me. I think that was his only good touch.

Ha, if you allow me to replace “deserved loss” with “deserved to lose” I stand by everything else.

Bodo/Glimt are very basic and should be a pushover for any Ajax team with a little footballing ability. Unfortunately we don’t have one of those.

Totally clueless against a team that does nothing except try to kick the ball away. One or two half chances and a well deserved loss.

I hope no one still thinks this has anything to do with coaching or technical staff. This team sucks.

@oranje Ramaj was heading to the far post and Hato failed to cover the near post. Pretty bad all around on what was a pretty tame shot.

Bodo will look to close this out at 1–0 and I don’t know if Ajax can break them down. Berghuis and Akpom haven’t been great but who would come on?

I had the same view… one problem was the four defenders plus Henderson couldn’t get the ball past Heerenveen’s 3 or 4 man press. It really doesn’t help that Taylor and Hlynsson were both invisible for chunks of the match but the ball was getting stuck much earlier in the build up. They did play 4-4-...

Exactly! I thought it was over the line, both live and on the replay, but we need to take three points from mid-table teams if we want to overtake AZ and/or Twente.

A draw or a loss against Heerenveen are just as bad IMO.

Totally hopeless. Heerenveen did a good job interrupting our build up but I don’t think it should be possible for them to do that with only three or four players pressing.

Ugh, I don’t know about 2-0 but Heerenveen were the better team in the first half. Can’t think of any obvious changes with the players in the squad. This looks like dropped points to me.

Forbs is the obvious player but I wonder if Martha will also get some time on the left wing. I think we could also play without a true LW and with an extra midfielder instead.