09 Feb 2005: Ajax - Ghana

[Kowalczyk]

Oh yeah - and perhaps it's also time to look forward to the 'Game of the Century': Ajax vs the Ghanese national team (including Obodai and Yakubu, probably).

Read all about it here:
http://www.ajax-usa.com/news/2004-2005/ ... komst.html

[mr_cooper]

2 players that playing in israel right now going to be with ghana national team. emanuel papo and emoro luckman. both of them pretty poor by the way.

[Blind3]

Ajax may actually be able to beat this team. Sorry,still smarting after the Den Haag debacle.

[Kowalczyk]

Question to the locals: will anyone take the afternoon off to go to this fixture?

I kind of feel like it (haven't seen a game at De Toekomst yet this season - and it sure is a nice one), but on the other hand: Ajax already are a complete waste of time on Sundays, let alone on weekdays! Also: it's really f#cking cold...

K.

[666]

Will Koeman get axed if Ghana beats Ajax?

Go Ghana!!!

[Kowalczyk]

Will Koeman get axed if Ghana beats Ajax?

Go Ghana!!!

:D

I guess everything helps...

Seriously though: the board backed him up when he was at war with Van Gaal. If they fire Koeman during the season, they basically admit that they've been wrong. If you drop your TD first, and then sack your head-coach a few months later... you really should resign also. And they know it. That's why they will not fire Koeman any time soon.

Not if we lose at NAC, for example. If the Auxerre home game also goes badly wrong - then the board might start panicking.

K.

[Kowalczyk]

One hour and twenty minutes, folks...

Already getting nervous?

K.

[Kowalczyk]

Wow - game must be 15 minutes underway by now, but there is not a single place on the internet where the score can be followed. Not on Ajax Netwerk (not even in a forum thread), not on Ajax.nl... I am not in touch with someone who's at the game. Nothing. It's a complete mystery.

All I can find is this match preview on GhanaWeb.com:
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/S ... p?ID=74934

K.

[Kowalczyk]

Result is on Ajax.nl now: 2-1 Ajax. Two goals by Rasmus Lindgren.

That's all we know at this point...

K.

[Manneken Pis]

Shame Ghana don't play in the Eredivisie...... ;)

[Kowalczyk]

Here's a match report based on the Ajax.nl and GhanaWeb reports:

http://www.ajax-usa.com/matches/m04-05/ ... a-2-1.html

J.O.B. played the full 90!

K.

[SPL]

Isn't it time Lindgren got a game for the first team?

Glad JOB got through 90 mins.Let's hope he can keep fit for the remainder of the season.

[Kowalczyk]

Isn't it time Lindgren got a game for the first team?

Yes. I think so.

He gets selected for almost every 'serious' friendly now (against professional opposition) and he keeps doing really well. Scored in the U.K., scored against Barcelona, scored against Ghana... Time for the next step: Eredivisie début.

We're missing two midfielders (VDV and Sneijder) on Sunday, so I guess this is the moment to give De Ridder and Lindgren a shot, the first as a starter, the latter as a sub!

K.

[Kowalczyk]

Check the photo report on the Ajax Foto Side, including a couple of pictures of John O'Brien in action - with the captain's armband on one of 'em.

http://www.ajaxfotoside.nl/ghana/ghana.html

K.