Ajaxtalk

Ajax get a home cup match for a change and take on 2nd division Telstar. Let's hope this is not a repeat of the dreadful loss of last season in this competition.

No youth talent so looks like Gaaei,Wijndal V d Boomen Klaassen and Berghuis will start. Need to keep our strongest lineup for Sunday.

Hato back but Rensch Sutalo and Baas all rested plus Taylor. Henderson Traore and Godts starting a bit of a surprise and why not Ramaj giving Pasveer a rest.

They played yesterdah in stevenage against tottenham

Not found a stream just following comments on Showtime .Sounds like the worst 45 mins football played this season. Every single post wants Berghuis out and Brobbey too.

Watching our youth last night taking Spurs to the cleaners was sheer joy.I would put money on Faberski, Steur and Bounida doing better .

It looks bad but it’s because Telstar have parked the bus. We already know this Ajax just doesn’t have the quality on the ball to get past that sort of defense easily.

Farioli takes off Berghuis and Brobbey. At least Weghorst scores goals but V d Boomen is not good enough

Rugani breaks the deadlock.

Not pretty, but I’m happy enough with any win from this team.

A win is a win. Just have to play 100% better v Sparta on Sunday.

70% of the match must have been played in the Telstar half but Ajax were not terribly precise with interior passing. Ajax also put good pressure on Telstar and generated some good deep turnovers. Rugani with the match winner with a header off a corner by van den Boomen and then Akpom seals the match with a great header off of a cross from Gaaei. MOTM for me was Henderson who was virtually perfect in all phases of the game. He controlled the deep midfield and was always a solid outlet for passes. Ajax had little defending to do and Pasveer had to only parry away one shot.

Player Ratings:

Pasveer (6) - not much to do other than some passing out and kicking
Gaaei (6) - great cross to Akpom for the 2nd goal but was only average otherwise, he seems not to have good field sense in terms of his passing
Rugani (7) - got the match winner and defended well
Kaplan (6.5) - good on the ball but had little to do otherwise
Hato (7) - decent match and tried to push forward as much as possible
Henderson (7.5) - gave a clinic on how to play the deep MF
Berghuis (5.5) - barely above average and I'm not sure Ajax should resign him
Fitz-Jim (6) - had some decent passes but was also careless on occasion
Traore (6) - better than in some past matches but really didn't make a difference
Brobbey (5.5)- held up the ball and made some nice turns but misplayed a ball when he looked to be in on goal
Godts (6.5) - very lively but things were too clogged in the back by Telstar and he faced a lot of double teams
van den Boomen (6.5) - a couple of good free kicks and decent picking out players to pass to
Weghorst (5) - two chances to score and he didn't, was persistently fouled anytime the ball got to him
Taylor (6.5) - decent enough coming in first as a MF and then as a right wing when Traore went off
Akpom (6.5) - nailed the header to clinch the match but was too selfish on his first shot when Weghorst was totally open at the far post
Davy One Goal (NR) - on late

Sparta away on Sunday to wrap up the first half of the season.

Away to AZ in the round of 16.

Was expecting Feyenoord or PSV away . No way were we going to be home to amateurs.January games are against easier teams except Galatasary at home.