20 Mar 2011: ADO Den Haag - Ajax

[Orange14]

Clownlike defense concedes what looked like an own goal by Alderweireld. We've had chances but can't convert (what else is new). ADO is parking everyone behind the ball and I'm thinking that this one is over for all intents and purposes.

[orange goblin]

I wonder if all these years of defensive shit will ever come to an end

[Tom_]

Hmm, there have been loads of chances at both ends so far. Can't see it staying 1-0... but that doesn't mean I think we'll score

[Orange14]

I wonder if all these years of defensive shit will ever come to an end

That is the €1M question! We seem to get punished for every dumb mistake but can't do the same thing to our opponents. If you ask me this is the big difference between us and Twente/PSV. Both of those clubs seem to be able to overcome adversity, we cannot.

[rjf1]

Our forwards are too small and too slow to present any real danger. Cvit makes a troika with El H and Oleguer when it comes to swiftness of foot. For years not having a big strong center forward has been our problem. And don't blame the defensive shit -- blame the fact that we haven't got the talent nor the tactics to overcome it. If we did they wouldn't use it. Show them that they won't get any benefit from that kind of play and they will cut it out. Dead slow pitty patting the ball back and forth around the perimeter isn't going to do it.

[souras84]

fuckin shit. i just saw the replay of the goal... what a bunch of idiots! I myself know that when u are all alone as the last player and you arent sure who is coming up from behind YOU SEND IT TO OUT OF THE FIELD

[Orange14]

Dead slow pitty patting the ball back and forth around the perimeter isn't going to do it.

Trouble is, as long as we have to play Enoh as the holding midfielder rather than Anita we don't have a midfield capable of passing the ball around to create opportunities. de Jong is glacial slow in assessing when to pass. Eriksen is the only quality player we have since the jury is still out on Lodeiro (who might give us the movement that we need).

[souras84]

and i dont believe that lodeiro is the saviour...

[Orange14]

and i dont believe that lodeiro is the saviour...

But until Buoy or Snjeider show that they are, he is the only one with senior experience that we have.

[kezme44]

same shit all over again. glad I'm sitting on a plane and about to take off to go on vacation, so I won't see the sorry result of this one until I come back

[Orange14]

One other question, anyone know what the black armbands are for? I saw a bunch of teams yesterday wearing them as well. Japan??

[bluedaddy19]

castillion warming up

and whoever doubts that lodeiro would solve many of our problems is kidding themselves, he is the uruguayan sneijder, a real #10 with ideas that also scores goals... his continue loss is making us suffer

[Tom_]

It's like watching a team cut into two halves: at the back, a few guys who like having foot races with counterattacking strikers and playing silly buggers passing the ball around; at the front, several midgets who are out to have a good time by dribbling the ball straight to whoever's marking them.

Nothing in the middle to connect the two halves...

[Orange14]

Castillion on for Dario. Is he the future?

[Orange14]

We get hacked all over the field and the one time Ozbiliz hacks someone he gets a yellow card; go figure.

[Orange14]

JAN VERTONGHEN - GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[Orange14]

Oojier on for Enoh, Vertonghen may slot out to left back with Anita moving into the midfield.

[bluedaddy19]

captain oh captain!!

[rjf1]

Good goal! We got one -- we can get another.

[Tom_]

We have to get another, one point is no use to us!

[Orange14]

Bad call on van der Wiel; he got the ball first.

[Orange14]

Bad call on van der Wiel; he got the ball first.

and of course we immediately get punished for this - 2-1

[Orange14]

Eriksen with a header - even up at 2-2

[rjf1]

Just when I was about to give up in despair, out of nowhere comes the second goal. A third? One can only hope.

[rjf1]

Well, barring a miracle, that looks like it for this year. How many more years of "wait til next year" are we going to have to go through before "next year" finally arrives, I wonder.