Ajaxtalk

Which Ajax will show up on Thursday, the offensive minded club that put four in the goal against Heerenveen or the defensive wandering club that conceded a goal to Dnipro last Thursday?

We are missing Kishna, probably for good this time.

Ayman schreef:We are missing Kishna, probably for good this time.

Don't think so, according to reports he will be in the selection for this match. Sigthorrsson hopes to be picked as well having played an hour in the Jong match yesterday. I'm not sure Siggie adds much to the team but that's just my opinion.

Orange14 schreef:

Ayman schreef:We are missing Kishna, probably for good this time.

Don't think so, according to reports he will be in the selection for this match. Sigthorrsson hopes to be picked as well having played an hour in the Jong match yesterday. I'm not sure Siggie adds much to the team but that's just my opinion.

Would be funny if he ends up scoring the deciding goal.

Boilesen and Moisander might be available for tomorrow's match. Sigthorrsson was mentioned as a possible "pinch hitter" if the club is in need of a goal.

Yes, finally they will show an Ajax game from tv here in Finland. Looking forward to see our guys without buffering streams, pop up ads or arabic commentators.

Hope it's a good one. It's going to be tough for our young squad, but who knows what we can achieve with the support from our fans in the Arena. Hope our defense can hold up as an away goal sure would put us in to real trouble.

Hope Sinkgraven starts. He has good qualities and he seems to be able to give quality crosses from set pieces. Great deliveries in the goals by Klaassen and Veltman against Heerenveen.

Am I the only one worried about this game? People making a big deal out of the game against Heerenveen. You can't compare domestic games with continental games. They are oceans apart. Do you remember Douglas marking Milik out of the game? What if he does that again? If Siggy comes on, I don't have much hope.

I'm with you Ayman. I'm pretty sure we're going to get knocked out. Our only hope is to score first, but if Dnipro come out defensive and it's 0–0 or 0–1 at ht we will spend the rest of the game passing between the CBs and Cillesen.

Heerenveen was a different story because they tried to attack which left us lots of room. They also played a high line. I don't think either of these things will happen tomorrow.

I toothink it will be astruggle,Dnipro will defend and we struggle against teams who come and defend. Glad Siggy is fit but on the other hand I don't rate the guy and just hope we get rid of him asasp.

Final score will be 4-0; Ajax will come out pressing high and Kishna will show FdB what he is all about and score within the first 10 minutes. You heard it here first.

Thats what we need a nice positive post.

Orange14 schreef:Final score will be 4-0; Ajax will come out pressing high and Kishna will show FdB what he is all about and score within the first 10 minutes. You heard it here first.

Suits me... despite the earlier grumbling I am really looking forward to this game!

I was also thinking about a 4-0 or a 3-0 win.

We're just gonna show we can play really good and agressive football in front of an eagerly crowd, we did it against Heerenveen too.

No Amsterdammer knows how to pronounce 'Dnipropetrovsk', but Amsterdam Arena has been sold out for this one already over one and a half week ago which is great!

Andersen, Menig and Zivkovic are dropped from the squad for the match tonight. Hope these decisions don't bite us in the rear.

Selection:

Jasper Cillessen
Ricardo van Rhijn
Joël Veltman
Niklas Moisander
Nicolai Boilesen
Mike van der Hoorn
Daley Sinkgraven
Kolbeinn Sigthórsson
Davy Klaassen
Ricardo Kishna
Jairo Riedewald
Arek Milik
Lasse Schöne
Anwar El Ghazi
Thulani Serero
Nick Viergever
Riechedly Bazoer
Diederik Boer

Kishna is in the starting 11 and ready to fulfill my hope of a quick goal or two!!!

will hope for a decent stream on livetv,they have been good for our recent EC games.

Uh oh, this is the crazy ref who was in charge of Feyenoord–Napoli! Expect weirdness...

Well Dnipro hasn't come to sit on their lead. Looking dangerous they are.

Anyone have a stream? None of the ones on rojadirecta are working for me.

Lots of pointless possession with no penetration for Ajax while the visitors have lots of room for counters.
Doesn't look good to me....

Decent half from us, midfield looks good. Particularly impressed by Klaassen. Problem is we didn't really create any awesome chances and Dnipro look dangerous on the counter.

There have been lots of set pieces and it could be a question of who gets lucky on one first...

Kishna really should have buried the cross of el Ghazi. We have been marginally better the Dnipro but they are so disciplined on defense and are pressing right at the half way line with four up front and two behind. Ajax full backs are going to have to take some chances and get behind the front four in order to create mismatches. I'm somewhat pessimistic that we can do this.

Amol schreef:Anyone have a stream? None of the ones on rojadirecta are working for me.

ESPN3 is carrying the match if you can get it.

Orange14 schreef:

Amol schreef:Anyone have a stream? None of the ones on rojadirecta are working for me.

ESPN3 is carrying the match if you can get it.

Really?? Thanks!!

I have given up on looking at regular outlets for Ajax games. I was watching some random Russian stream till now.

Manneken Pis schreef:Lots of pointless possession with no penetration for Ajax while the visitors have lots of room for counters.
Doesn't look good to me....

A few chances at the end of the half ... still some hope ....