25 Nov 2012: Roda JC - Ajax

[Kowalczyk]

Eredivisie 2012-2013, Matchday 14.

Kick-off at the Parkstad Limburg Stadium in Kerkrade is 12:30 CET (Ajax are always shit at 12:30, just saying).

We will have to start winning some away games now, otherwise we might as well take the rest of the season off.

K.

[ajaxcolombia]

Is the game starting time actually making a difference anymore to Ajax though??? We've drop points day and night now...

[SPL]

squad Vermeer,Cillessen, V Rhijn Alderweireld,Moisander,Blind ,Veltman ,Dijks,Poulsen,Schone, Eriksen ,Enoh(hopefully on the bench ), de Jong, Sana,Boerrigter,Hoesen, Lukoki, Fischer.

I would have Fischer and Lukoki on the wings and Hoesen needs to play but that means de Jong in midfield with Eriksen and either Poulsen or Schone preferably Schone.

We badly need a quality defensive midfielder Poulsen has had his moments but is too slow and Enoh is well not good enough .

Hope for 3 points .

[SPL]

Vermeer, VRhijn ,Alderweireld,Moisander, Blind, deJong, Poulsen ,Eriksen,Boerrigter,Hoesen,Fischer

Good to see we are starting with a proper striker.

I note its on ESPN live and firstrow.eu show ESPN as aregular link so suggest anyone tries that .

[SPL]

firstrow .eu and top link says espn

[Tom_]

Unbelievable. We were all over them for 13 minutes. Should be a few goals in it for us, though.

[Orange14]

Blind's fault clear and simple.

[rjf1]

You could just see it coming -- all that bullshit possession with zero production -- then more of that pitty pat to give the ball away -- one attack by them and we are a goal down -- year after year after year -- it's making me sick.

[Tom_]

Come on, we've had 4–5 pretty good chances... yes, we should be killing them but it's pretty unlucky they scored their first half chance.

[souras84]

It seems that they can score a second anytime

[souras84]

HAHAHAHA what a joke corner!!! They chose to pass after the added time!!! I think we just don't know what to do with the ball when we reach the area. Maybe it's because we lack a proper attacker for over 2 years

[Orange14]

Why take a short corner when you know the half time whistle is going to blow? Dumb play by Eriksen. We are lucky not to be down by 2-0 when Alderwiereld totally lost Nemeth. Lots of possession yet again but we are at least getting the ball up into the attacking third. I like how Hoessen is holding the ball up, we haven't had anyone do this since Huntelaar left several years ago. Unfortunately, nobody is playing off of him much at all. Boerrigter cannot play on the right side since he's just a left footed player and cannot go to his right very well at all; I suspect he will be subbed off soon. de Jong is having a decent match moving around much more than I've seen him recently. Eriksen blows hot and cold, a moment of brilliance followed by a brain fart and a give away. Poulsen can only defend and you see that the center halves don't have any confidence passing to him to try to build up the play. I think we have some goals coming in this match but hope we don't concede any more cheap ones or we will drop all the points.

[paladinby]

That corner was so dumb that I even laughed.

[SPL]

well we are creating chances and with Hoesen playing up front de Jong and Eriksen are getting into scoring chances from midfield .Poor goal to let in and we are lucky they should have had a 2nd but we have created chances and hopefully if we get 1 then more will follow.

[Tom_]

We're clearly better, but it's disturbing how much success bad teams are having against us just by soaking up pressure then hitting us on the counter.

[souras84]

Just think about PSV instead of Roda... How bad will it hurt??

[souras84]

OK. Toby is out cause we have PSV next week. But why is Hoesen out?

[Orange14]

Really strange substitution Schöne for Hoesen.

[souras84]

Game by game, I am now almost convinced that De Jong is our problem. He doesn't fit into any kind of formation when there is a striker present. So it's either him as a pseudo striker OR messing up the midfield

[rjf1]

Disagree -- imo Eriksen is our problem -- he couldn't slow up a play any better if he were playing for the other team.

[Tom_]

About time

[rjf1]

Ok -- I'll eat my words this time. Finally a goal!

[souras84]

Ok -- I'll eat my words this time. Finally a goal!

hahaha don't need to!! Go eat proper food

[Tom_]

Good. Well I think we worked hard and deserved that

[Amol]

1-2!!!!!!!!!!