02 Mar 2014: Feyenoord - Ajax

[Orange14]

Agree with this grades expect I believe all our defenders deserve the extra .5.

Yes and it's done!

[SPL]

Fair assessments Orange. I see PSV are now only 5 points behind 2nd place and are winning regularly now Hiddink is back . Could see them come through for that 2nd place!

[souras84]

Orange I believe that Kishna shouldn't have the same rating with De Jong. Siem didn't pass or keep the ball well more than twice. Only in the final 10 minutes maybe.

Once more De Jong was a liability

[ajaxcolombia]

I don't agree, siem did better in this game than he's done in a while. He had more touches and better pass success than pelle.

[ajaxcolombia]

Oh one last thing, due to kishnas rise to prominence, will schone come back to play in the wing or midfield? He was our best player before he got bit by injury so he should start somewhere.

[paladinby]

A good hard-worked victory. Bojan's injury never hurt us.

[ajaxcolombia]

Read into this stat what you like, but moisander had a 100% aerial success. pair that with 84% Pass accuracy with 76 touches, and yeah, I like moisander, a player who who may not be as gifted in the technical department as vertonghen, but has given his best for this club.

[Amol]

Not the best football, but a great win nonetheless.

I was watching on very choppy streams while on vacation.

[paladinby]

This video is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkFfPUxf5o

[ajaxcolombia]

I cringed so much with this video, but damn that reporter is tall, I mean doesn't pelle stand at about 1.93? And he's taller!

[Philippe]

http://voetbalflitsen.nl/wtf/17514/preview/

[Cruijff]

Hard fought game and the club defended really well. Dangerous balls were always cleared away and Cillessen had a couple of good punches in traffic to keep Feyenoord off the scoreboard. Only conceded a goal when we were a man down and don't know that Veltman could have done much else as Pelle is bigger and Martins Indi's cross was pefect. Surprised that Pelle didn't receive at least one yellow card for the elbows he was throwing and Veltman didn't deserve the hand ball near the end when he was pushed. We have some weak competition coming up so our lead should be pretty safe for the next several weeks. Maybe some of the team trailing us will slip up.

Player Ratings:

Cillessen (7.5) - kicked well and had two good punches in traffic, distributed the ball nicely
Blind (7.5) - really strong on defense
Moisander (7.5) - solid game and too bad he had to come off for treatment on the goal though he might not have made a difference
Veltman (7.5) - good today and I'm not faulting him on the Feyenoord goal and nice to see him poke the rebound in for the winner
van Rhijn (7.5) - a couple of bad crosses but generally played a good match and defended Boetius extremely well
Poulsen (7.5) - added some needed steel in the midfield and kept things pretty solid on defense
Serero (4) - very poor and two costly give aways were fortunately cleaned up by the defenders; had acres of space sometimes and didn't realize it
Klaassen (5.5) - somewhat silent but had a stinging shot come off the post
Bojan (5.5) - non-factor and came off with an injury
de Jong (6.5) - really worked hard up front
Kishna (6.5) - nice cross to Sigthorrson for the first goal but otherwise silent on offense
Sigthorrson (6.5) - worked hard but his lack of speed was a hinderance on the wing, nice goal to tie things up
Duarte (6.5) - decent enough coming in for Serero
de Sa (6) - good enough and worked hard

With only the cup to play for now the league is Ajax's to lose at this point.

Thanks!

Great ratings again!

[Philippe]

[SPL]

thanks for the pictures

[aveslacker]

thanks for the pictures

^^^That.