27 Aug 2009: SK Slovan Bratislava - Ajax

[Van basten]

no working stream for me if you find something, let me know.thanks.

NVS3 - 74176 on sopcast works fine

Nice. Thanks.

P.S. Why the hell we're playing Suarez in this game?

[Van basten]

Siem de Jong 1-0

[Orange14]

1-0 on Siem De Jong tap in after a save on Cvitanich.

[Venezuelan Ajacied]

Stream went dead !!!....some word i cant understand !!!! what the hell ???

[Orange14]

Anybody else lose the Sopcast feed or is this a problem here in the US?

[souras84]

I lost it too

[souras84]

its ALIVE!

[Orange14]

its ALIVE!

Yes, but poor defending by Wielaert (I think) who lost his man and left Stek hung out to dry: 1-1

[souras84]

yeah! typical shitty defending

O M G what are they gonna do??

[aveslacker]

yeah! typical shitty defending

O M G what are they gonna do??

Hopefully they'll score a few more goals.

[souras84]

yeah, nowdays its a matter of mathematics and especially of subtracting...

[Venezuelan Ajacied]

we should be loosing by now...very shitty play....

[Orange14]

Kennedy on a nice free kick; 2-1

[souras84]

Back from the dead or what?

[Orange14]

2-1 full time. Only positive from this match is the amount of possession we had (70%) and that someone other than Suarez hit the back of the net. Otherwise it was very difficult to stay awake for this match.

[martinkohout]

Well, I only saw the last ten minutes or so, and maybe we didn't look great doing it, but what the hell, 2-1 - I'll take it!

[aveslacker]

Pretty workmanlike performance. I thought we were ok. It's never bad when you win away in Europe with 69% of the possession.

[souras84]

So, who's next...

[Orange14]

So, who's next...

Group play, home and away starting in mid=September; four teams in each group. Don't know when the draw is but it could be tomorrow after all the matches are done today.

[SPL]

Got in just to see Siems goal . Wielaert was at fault for their goal . IMO this guy should not be in this club he is a piss poor defender. Atouba did not look too bad but when he went off Urby was supposed to be left back but nil marking by him nearly gave away a goal. Still we won that is the main thing but we need a decent central striker and another central defender obviously.

[Van basten]

Atouba did not look too bad

Really? I think, that he was bad.

[Venezuelan Ajacied]

The only reason we won was because Slovan Bratislava sucked ass at finishing but i counted at least 3 clear chances to score for them. We sucked badly....really bad.


A win is a win...true. But you have to look at the big picture.

[Orange14]

While this was a sleepwalking performance, I discount the importance. We had a five goal lead that turned into six following the away goal we got. I don't think the team was terribly motivated and Jol didn't look to bothered in the few camera shots that caught him. We went into the match with qualification 99.999% assured. Big thing was not to make big fools of the team or get anyone hurt. I think we succeeded on both those counts. Only worrisome thing was the Vertonghen yellow card on a silly tackle. I presume (don't know for sure) that this carries over to the group play.

[SPL]

I have to admit I did not see the first 25mins and I see Atouba nearly gave a goal away, so I was judging him on about 45 mins. He looked marginal better than v PSV but difference is that PSV are a vastly better team. I still think we need a proper left back. With him at left back and Wielart at centre we are going to leak a lot of goals.

[jamcocteau]

The only reason we won was because Slovan Bratislava sucked ass at finishing but i counted at least 3 clear chances to score for them. We sucked badly....really bad.


A win is a win...true. But you have to look at the big picture.

Not wanting to be rude - the big picture is we won first leg 5-0 and could have played a team of 17 year old ajax players tonight and still went through. This game was probably most irrelevant we play all year, first leg 5-0 we were through already, i honestly seen no point in taking this game seriously - it was that much of a non-event that Kennedy got the winner for us - he will be lucky to be on bench come sunday.

Be real and look forward to EL draw today - as I say this is probably most irrelevant useless game the Ajax first team will play all year, no point in getting upset about it especially as we won