18 May 2008: Ajax - FC Twente

Bericht door **Kowalczyk** » di mei 06, 2008 10:55 am

Return leg at the ArenA... Final of the play-offs...

D-Day for Champions League qualifiers...

K.

Gallegos2 · Bericht door **Gallegos2** » di mei 13, 2008 11:41 pm

We will be in the Champions League this summer!!

ZoefdeHaas · Bericht door **ZoefdeHaas** » do mei 15, 2008 11:39 am

1-0 is enough, but we should aim for a better margin.

2-0 at least.

Suarez and Huntelaar.

ZoefdeHaas · Bericht door **ZoefdeHaas** » do mei 15, 2008 11:43 am

EDIT: Emanuelson injured his ankle or something so will most likely miss this game.

So no Vertonghen (yellow cards) Vermaelen and Urby injured... who's left for left fullback?

Ogararu?
Colin?
Davids?
VD Heijden?

Meerrrrrrrr

gordonvandekamp · Bericht door **gordonvandekamp** » do mei 15, 2008 3:23 pm

I think the only way we will win this one is to score early and often. I think our defense is crap, and is doubly so with the injuries/suspensions for this game, so I think we're going to concede 1-2 goals.

I don't think it's going to be as easy as the last few years, and we're going to be in serious trouble if we don't score early; that will be momentum for more goals and a big win. If Twente score first, it's over; we're not digging ourselves out of that hole.

I can be done, I just hope the right team shows up to play the game.

SPL · Bericht door **SPL** » do mei 15, 2008 5:28 pm

Van Basten has decided that Slijngard should be standby leftback next season so as he has played there all season for the reserves give him ago!!!

Of the candidates I would actually play Davids there.

Not very positive about Sunday and the timing of Koster to Twente is a joke

Bericht door **Kowalczyk** » do mei 15, 2008 7:54 pm

Bad, bad feeling about this one...

Koster says "1-0 is enough"... yeah right, that's a fact, but are we going to keep a clean sheet? We all know the answer to that one - and it's a big fat no.

If Twente score just once, we'll need two goals for extra time and three for the win. Which means, in practice: we're pretty much fucked if Twente score, because so far we only managed four goals against them in 270 minutes of football this season.

Statistic fact: the chance of Ajax conceding either two or three goals in a home game is nearly twice as big as the chance of Ajax keeping a clean sheet in a home game (clean sheet 4 times, against 7 home matches in which we let in two goals or more).

K.

gordonvandekamp · Bericht door **gordonvandekamp** » do mei 15, 2008 9:24 pm

Kowalczyk schreef: Statistic fact: the chance of Ajax conceding either two or three goals in a home game is nearly twice as big as the chance of Ajax keeping a clean sheet in a home game (clean sheet 4 times, against 7 home matches in which we let in two goals or more).

K.

I have the same sort of bad feeling. Those stats confirmed what I had suspected, although are more troubling. I've seen the way we play at home in games like this, and if the opposition scores, everyone (fans included) seems out of it and can't get back into the game.

I'd like to see Slijngard play. I think we would have done just as well, if not even better, had we used more of the reserves in defense this season considering Silva was the only effective purchase.

SPL · Bericht door **SPL** » vr mei 16, 2008 11:27 am

Van der Heijden has played central defence regularly for the reserves this season so I would have thought he may have been used in recent games ,at least as a sub.

I would pick Slijngard on Sunday as he is regular left back and has being playing regularly. Colin Kuffour and Ogararu have had no playing time in the last 4 weeks.

Not for this thread but with only 2 fit regular defenders Colin is still unlikely to play!! Keeping him is one of the biggest mysteries.

Cedric · Bericht door **Cedric** » vr mei 16, 2008 1:02 pm

SPL schreef:Keeping him is one of the biggest mysteries.

The only mystery here would be why Van Basten wanted to extend his contract, and I tend to think it's only to have a cheap sub. As far the rest, it's not a secret that Colin and Koster doesn't get along very well...

SE6Ajacied · Bericht door **SE6Ajacied** » vr mei 16, 2008 10:02 pm

Cedric_AeF schreef:
SPL schreef:Keeping him is one of the biggest mysteries.
The only mystery here would be why Van Basten wanted to extend his contract, and I tend to think it's only to have a cheap sub. As far the rest, it's not a secret that Colin and Koster doesn't get along very well...

I sill think it was a MvB "making his mark" scenario. He can't really lose here - if Colin does well then MvB will be seen as the visionary coach and if not then no one will have expected anything else and MvB can say that he wanted to fully evaluate the player etc.......but call me too cynical if you like.

Crazypunk · Bericht door **Crazypunk** » za mei 17, 2008 5:06 pm

This is gonna be a tough game. I sure hope that our midfield is better than the away game. We wont win with long balls and skip our midfield.
And yeah like you guys said, Im a bit worried about our defense aswell.

But hey lets keep the spirit up

Go Ajax!!

SPL · Bericht door **SPL** » za mei 17, 2008 6:51 pm

I see Kuffour is out of the squad , hamstring injury and Vito Wormgoor is in the squad. I would still like to see Slijngard play rather than have another out of position player in(Lindgren will play centre again )

grachtdog · Bericht door **grachtdog** » zo mei 18, 2008 12:19 pm

I've made the sacrifice..I've stayed up all night. 5:30 am kick-off....let's do it Ajax!!!

dws · Bericht door **dws** » zo mei 18, 2008 1:24 pm

Ajax matchday squad:

starting

Maarten Stekelenburg
Bruno Silva (Uru)
Rasmus Lindgren (Zwe)
Johnny Heitinga
Donovan Slijngard
Gabri (Spa)
Kenneth Perez (Den)
Edgar Davids (C)
Luis Suárez (Uru)
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
Jeffrey Sarpong

subs
Wissels
Dennis Gentenaar
Kennedy Bakircioglu (Zwe)
Ismael Urzaiz (Spa)
Dennis Rommedahl (Den)
George Ogararu (Roe)
Siem de Jong
Vito Wormgoor

saddlerian · Bericht door **saddlerian** » zo mei 18, 2008 1:26 pm

Todays's the day!!! COME ON AJAX!!!

ANYONE GOT A LINK?????

dws · Bericht door **dws** » zo mei 18, 2008 1:31 pm

SaddlerIan schreef:

Todays's the day!!! COME ON AJAX!!!

ANYONE GOT A LINK?????

http://www3.myp2p.eu/index.php?part=sports

click on the football icon and navigate down to the Ajax v Twente option (sopcast required).

saddlerian · Bericht door **saddlerian** » zo mei 18, 2008 1:35 pm

THANKS!!!

Tom_ · Bericht door **Tom_** » zo mei 18, 2008 1:52 pm

We're all over them but we have to put one away soon!

Can anyone recommend a GOOD stream? I'm on Tele2 at the moment but it's pretty awful. Don't want to just randomly switch and miss out altogether...

saddlerian · Bericht door **saddlerian** » zo mei 18, 2008 1:59 pm

It makes you think! If we'd have played at this tempo earlier in the season...would we be here now?

I think not! We'd still have hangovers from celebrating the Championship!!!

COME ON LADS! WE NEED A GOAL!!!

Use http://www3.myp2p.eu/index.php?part=sports and go down to Voetbal

Tom_ · Bericht door **Tom_** » zo mei 18, 2008 2:19 pm

Shit, we really needed to get one in the first half.

The new boys are doing well by the way. Oh and someone's gonna get sent off, let's hope it's not one of ours.

rjf1 · Bericht door **rjf1** » zo mei 18, 2008 2:28 pm

The new boys are doing well enough -- but it's hard to see where a goal is going to come from. I think there was only one decent chance for us in the entire half. Between Huntelaar, Suarez, and Perez you would think the boys would be good for at least one goal. Let's hope it happens.

SydAjax · Bericht door **SydAjax** » zo mei 18, 2008 2:33 pm

They are being really physical w/KJH and Suarez...lets hope they are a bit 'too' physical in the 2nd half and get a red or give up a penalty. Love watching Silva play, Gabri and Davids are playing their hearts out. Somethings gotta give here....

saddlerian · Bericht door **saddlerian** » zo mei 18, 2008 2:33 pm

Don't panic.......YET!!!!!

Tom_ · Bericht door **Tom_** » zo mei 18, 2008 2:36 pm

SydAjax schreef:They are being really physical w/KJH and Suarez...lets hope they are a bit 'too' physical in the 2nd half and get a red or give up a penalty. Love watching Silva play, Gabri and Davids are playing their hearts out. Somethings gotta give here....

Yep. I think we (Suarez in particular) are guilty of fart arsing around a bit too much on the wings but we seem to be stringing together some nice passes.

We can do it!