19 Nov 2011: Ajax - NAC Breda

[Amol]

Matchday 13. 2:45 pm EST.

Really need to win this one!

[SPL]

back to football , Vermeer, V D Wiel, Alderweireld, Vertonghen Anita, Enoh,Eriksen,Janssen Sulejmani,Bulykin,Ebecilio

Subs Cillessen ,Blind Koppers,Serero,Lodeiro,Boerrigter,Lukoki. Boerrigeter has had an minor injury thus not starting tonight. 3 points a must . Hope for a decent stream.

PS The wife is well trained she is just putting dinner on the table so I can eat before the game!!

[Van basten]

Lodeiro in. Yeah!

[Amol]

Bulykin's injury didn't look too good. We have no striker for Lyon. Sucks big time.

[Amol]

Great move by Lodeiro to evade his tackler and then great through ball to Mickey and bam goal!!!!!!!

[bluedaddy19]

this may be the best off the ball running in attack all season... lets keep it up

[paladinby]

We looked very well since Lodeiro came on. A lot of movement, good passes. Lodeiro is definately hungry for football.

[Orange14]

It looked like we had one goal and 90% possession. We are now down to zero strikers after Bulykin picks up a foot injury (hope it is not a metatarsal break) and Lodeiro comes on for him. Great pass and glad to see Sulejmani accelerate to the ball and take his shot. Did NAC even have a shot on goal? This should be a comfortable second half providing Enoh doesn't get sent off for something silly.

[#14]

Heracles have equalized against Twente

[Van basten]

Heracles have equalized against Twente

Finally they taste their own medicine: Heracles scores on 90min

[Amol]

Great through ball by Lodeiro once more to Ebecilio, who somehow forgets to put the ball in the back of the net.

[Amol]

Just saw Lukoki or Serrero start warming up.

[Amol]

Vertonghen walks right through their defense with Lodeiro's help and taps the ball at the keeper.

Damn Lodeiro might be our best CF so far this season

[Amol]

2-0!! Game over. Again great ball by Lodeiro to Boerrigter. MOTM is pretty easy to pick tonight.

[Amol]

....and it's 2-1 now. Kolk walks through our 'defense' and then shoots form outside the box at Vermeer who somehow evades the ball while diving.

[Amol]

and 2-2 now. Should've been a card for their RW for his tackle on Eriksen which eventually led to the goal.

[paladinby]

We miss Steks so much... He was a beast and made the difference.

[Amol]

I think Vermeer needs to be rested for a few games. He almost caused a 3rd one at the end by being waaaayyy off his line.

[Jojo]

WTF was that?!! Can someone explain me how could we have lost points today? 80 min of good football and then... blank

[Amol]

WTF was that?!! Can someone explain me how could we have lost points today? 80 min of good football and then... blank

Well you could almost sense that our defense fell asleep after 80 minutes. Inexcusable.

[souras84]

It's time for someone to take a blame

[SPL]

How on earth did we not win that match??? Defending was poor for their first although again Vermeer shows why he should not be playing for Ajax . As for the second well it should have been a free kick on Eriksen . Well once Lyon beat us on Tuesday thats the season over . We are going to be chasing 3rd or 4th place . Lodeiro looked good today but we need a striker !! EL Ham should be playing .

[Orange14]

When you go up 2-0 with less than 10 minutes to go in the match and you are at home with a big crowd YOU SHOULD WIN EVERY SINGLE TIME! This team is mentally weak and has been all season long. How many chances were squandered against an inferior opponent? Too many to count. It's the story of the season, incredibly poor finishing and conceding cheap goals. I don't even care about the CL match mid-week since this is no better than a mid-table Eredivisie club that really should be ashamed of their league performance this season.

Questions really need to be asked about Vermeer now. The first shot should have been saved unless he was really screened which was hard to tell on an internet feed. Hard to tell but his positioning didn't look great on Schilder's goal. He did make the one early save when the match was at 1-0 which I'll give him credit. van der Wiel got beaten easily by Jozefzoon with a resulting yellow card and he was lucky it wasn't in the box which would have been a sure penalty. Otherwise he had a pretty decent game going forward. I'm not rating any of our defenders as they really had little to do all match long until the final 10 minutes. Vertonghen has to put the ball in the net on that opportunity he had; he's a midfielder after all. Anita went forward well and had some good passes to the middle. After the stupid yellow card, Enoh had a decent match though it was difficult to tell if he was caught out of position when Schilder got the ball after the clumsy tackle on Eriksen. Janssen took the free kicks but again proved he is a liability in a pressing game; he's just too slow for this team and cannot defend. Eriksen had some good moments and should have done better with some of the offensive opportunities he had. Lodeiro was excellent coming on in a difficult situation and having to play up front in the middle. Good passes but some poor shot selection. Ebecilio was average. Sulejmani played well for the first 3/4 of the match and then ran out of gas; he cannot go a full 90 minutes. Boerrigter converted a difficult shot opportunity and it's too bad he could go the full match since he is so much better than Ebecilio. Serrero is to small and weak to play at this level. He got pushed off the ball way to easily.

Just a terrible result for a team that already was facing the need to win out the rest of the way and they all need to think about why this happens week in and week out. DISGUSTING!

[Van basten]

I can't understand what is wrong with this club. I can't even be angry anymore, because i have exhausted all limits.
We won the League after 7 years, and first time in a million years we actually didn't get any weaker (on the paper) after summer's transfer period, and we still manage to fuck up our title hopes in middle of November!

[bluedaddy19]

I think Vermeer needs to be rested for a few games. He almost caused a 3rd one at the end by being waaaayyy off his line.

rested? what does it take for him to be benched???