11 Feb 2012: NAC Breda - Ajax

[Kowalczyk]

Eredivisie 2011-2012, matchday 21.

Kick-off time: 20.45 CET on Saturday evening, a proper old 'avondje NAC' as they say in Breda.

K.

[Orange14]

Twente dropped all three points today so a victory is a must!

[gordonvandekamp]

Hup Ajax

Interested to see how they perform today, some back (Jansen out, let's see how the midfield performs) and first match after the Cruijff decision.

[SPL]

will be interesting to see how many of their 7 ex Ajax men play .

Koenders(ex Jong Ajax), Schilder, Jozefzoon Bonevacia(these last 2 on loan from us) plus signings from last month Boukhari, Sarpong(on loan from Sociedad) ,and Stefano Seedorf,ex Jong Ajax.

Hope we can get 3 points .At least we wont have to put up with Janssen

[SPL]

Lineup Vermeer Anita Alderweireld,Vertonghen Koppers Enoh Eriksen de Jong Ozbiliz Bulykin Sulejmani

Nac have Jozefzoon Bonevacia Koenders and Schilder with Sarpong and Seedorf subs so plenty of Ajax academy players ie 12 all told starting and 6 subs.

For us I had hoped VRhijn would be RB and Anita LB ie V Rhijn is a better defender than Koppers but at least we have a right footed RB and left footed LB

As for de Jong and not Lodeiro ,words fail me , we have 3 right footed midfielders! Mind de Jong can only be better than that waste of space Janssen . Oh and Vermeer is still playing!

[SPL]

anyone out there? 0-0 HT and very uninteresting so far .

[paladinby]

Well, we had some chances but players may need some time to make it work. We are playing first time using this lineup and Enoh get's injured so there's more mess.

[Rooie]

Well, we had some chances but players may need some time to make it work. We are playing first time using this lineup and Enoh get's injured so there's more mess.

Well, it got a lot better since Enoh left the field, Aissati is upping the tempo. Too bad our strikers are worthless.

[Tom_]

I was considering not bothering with this one. It's 7:45 a.m. here... better get three points

[acab]

This is why i allways liked Bulykin. The russian bear is comming for you, yellow smurfs

[SE6Ajacied]

Nice goal, and three points will be even nicer. Hup Ajax.....

[SE6Ajacied]

Jeffrey Sarpong's just come on for NAC. I remember him well from one of the very few times I've seen Jong Ajax at De Toekompst.

[bluedaddy19]

gosh, it's amazing what can happen when we play a striker as a striker

[paladinby]

I hope that Lodeiro and Bulykin will receive more playing time in future games. But only Janssen's injury forced De Boer to make some changes in lineup. Lodeiro should be a starter - he's the better man for ball transition in this team.

[acab]

gosh, it's amazing what can happen when we play a striker as a striker

Yeah, Bulykin's goal was typical for heavy striker. Nice for Lodeiro too. The bad thing is Daley came in and that allmost cost us three points

[SPL]

hard won win but 2 good goals . Nice to see us play a striker. He must have gone off as he had cramp,just said so in English . No idea why Blind came on ,he and Vermeer nearly cocked up but Lodeiro then went away and scored. Lodeiro should play regularly for Janssen and de Jong should be a sub. anyway not a great game but 3 points is all that matters.

[Orange14]

Sorry, no player ratings for the match as I only was able to watch the first 20 minutes. My wife and I had a movie date and that was more important than the Ajax match. Glad to see the win and let's get a head of steam up and roll over teams from here on out.

[SPL]

After Utrecht game we all felt the season was over and no way are we going to finish even 2nd for that other CL spot . I did not enjoy watching last night and we were lucky that Vermeer did not make a real mistake until near the end when we were 1-0 up . Lucky that Lodeiro broke away and scored.It was a very poor game of football apart from our 2 goals nothing else positive to add about the game.

Aissati looked the best of our 3 midfielders ie he did better than de Jong or Eriksen .Glad our 2 Flemish defenders were back . Anita was ok, Koppers was poor in the first half ,slightly better in the second . Sulejmani and Ozbiliz did not impress. Bulykin and Lodeiro should start every game .de Jong is not a striker .

[Philippe]

Glad our 2 Flemish defenders were back .

You bet. Vertonghen was our best player. As usual.