18 Mar 2007: PSV - Ajax

Bericht door **Kowalczyk** » vr mar 09, 2007 12:01 pm

Could have been a very big game... Now it's 'only' an away game to the reigning and soon-to-be champions of The Netherlands. It's been twelve years since our last win in Eindhoven and I don't expect much this time...

K.

Bericht door **Kowalczyk** » zo mar 11, 2007 7:16 pm

Good news: PSV will be without Koné and Alex next week. Both injured.

Goalkeeper Gomes was on the bench today, due to a groin injury. It is as yet unknown whether he will be fit for Ajax or not.

K.

bluedaddy19 · Bericht door **bluedaddy19** » zo mar 11, 2007 7:36 pm

alex is likely done for the season... could the race possibly re-open yet again if we win in eindhoven?

:yes:

ZoefdeHaas · Bericht door **ZoefdeHaas** » ma mar 12, 2007 8:05 am

PSv do have a "harder" list of teams to play after the Ajax game, so if we keep winning from now and PSv start dropping points who knows..

Philippe · Bericht door **Philippe** » ma mar 12, 2007 9:42 am

besides p$v will be busy with the CL .... :blackcat:

bryan · Bericht door **bryan** » ma mar 12, 2007 3:29 pm

a couple slip ups less and the title would be there for the taking

Bericht door **Kowalczyk** » ma mar 12, 2007 4:12 pm

bryan schreef:a couple slip ups less and the title would be there for the taking

Yep. That's correct.

The stupid thing is. Our best games were the games against the better opponents, plus a few games that are traditionally tough: Feyenoord (twice), Heerenveen away, Utrecht away, Groningen (twice), Twente away and AZ away (despite the late equalizer). Even PSV at home was quite good, although we lost it on a single goal.

We f*cked it up in away games at Sparta Rotterdam and Vitesse away 0-2 up; 4-2 defeat) and in home games against Excelsior and Heerenveen. It was Excelsior's first point in 11 games and Heerenveen's first win in four games, if I remember it correctly.

This is very frustrating.

K.

Philippe · Bericht door **Philippe** » ma mar 12, 2007 4:21 pm

Kowalczyk schreef: Our best games were the games against the better opponents
K.

I'm afraid that's rather questionable :

Roda JC-Ajax 2-0
Ajax-PSV 0-1
Ajax-FC Twente 1-1
Ajax-AZ 2-2
Ajax-SC Heerenveen 0-1

(Not to mention our European games ! )

bryan · Bericht door **bryan** » ma mar 12, 2007 4:37 pm

still, it's not over yet. a win in eindhoven and the gap is down to five points. and with the way psv is stuttering the past month or two, even with alex, anything is possible. the only problem is that ajax is stuttering too.

i remember koeman won his last title at ajax this way too, we kept fucking up but everybody else did too.

Mr. Ajax · Bericht door **Mr. Ajax** » ma mar 12, 2007 5:04 pm

I'm afraid that's rather questionable :

Roda JC-Ajax 2-0
Ajax-PSV 0-1
Ajax-FC Twente 1-1
Ajax-AZ 2-2
Ajax-SC Heerenveen 0-1

(Not to mention our European games ! )

Im afraid thats rather selective...

If you choose to name the matches against Heerenveen, Twente, and Roda, you might as well mention the returns we played against them; we won all three, namely. Besides you forgot to list feyenoord, who we thrashed twice.
In any case I find your list way too statistical, as you are looking utterly at numbers and figures. Against psv we were unquestionably the better team, just to show you one example...

Philippe · Bericht door **Philippe** » ma mar 12, 2007 5:29 pm

Mr. Ajax schreef: Im afraid thats rather selective...

I did not mention AZ away ;)

We dropped eleven points in those five games against top of the table sides.

And our European games should be enough not to say that we did well against strong opponents.

Still I hope and believe that this unfortunate series will end in Eindhoven :yelclap:

dws · Bericht door **dws** » ma mar 12, 2007 6:56 pm

philippe schreef:
Mr. Ajax schreef: Im afraid thats rather selective...
I did not mention AZ away ;)

We dropped eleven points in those five games against top of the table sides.

And our European games should be enough not to say that we did well against strong opponents.

Still I hope and believe that this unfortunate series will end in Eindhoven :yelclap:

Swap over Heerenveen for Feyenoord and PSV have dropped just as many points against top opposition .

K.J. Huntelaar · Bericht door **K.J. Huntelaar** » ma mar 12, 2007 8:06 pm

I just hope that our players will be motivated and that they will fight till the end...

Bericht door **Kowalczyk** » ma mar 12, 2007 8:51 pm

philippe schreef:
Kowalczyk schreef: Our best games were the games against the better opponents
K.
I'm afraid that's rather questionable :

Roda JC-Ajax 2-0
Ajax-PSV 0-1
Ajax-FC Twente 1-1
Ajax-AZ 2-2
Ajax-SC Heerenveen 0-1

(Not to mention our European games ! )

I dod not say that we never played shit games against quality opposition. What I said is that our best performances were almost exclusively in games (in many cases away games) against some of the Eredivisie's better teams.

By the way: I thought that PSV have an easier schedule from now on, but that appears to be untrue.

PSV
Ajax (h)
NAC (a)
NEC (a)
Twente (h)
Utrecht (a)
Vitesse (h)

Ajax
PSV (a)
Heracles (h)
RKC (a)
NAC (h)
Sparta (h)
Willem II (a)

PSV's schedule is actually much tougher - and I'm not even talking about the two Liverpool games in between! NAC away, Twente at home, Utrecht away...

K.

FlaFlu · Bericht door **FlaFlu** » ma mar 12, 2007 9:27 pm

I honestly don’t like the fact that we could be facing 4 teams that are struggling against relegation in our last 6 games.

Bericht door **Kowalczyk** » ma mar 12, 2007 9:44 pm

Thomas schreef:I honestly don’t like the fact that we could be facing 4 teams that are struggling against relegation in our last 6 games.

Those teams are normally tricky opposition in the decisive weeks of the league. But: Sparta and Willem II will easily be 'safe' by the time we play them.

K.

ZoefdeHaas · Bericht door **ZoefdeHaas** » ma mar 12, 2007 11:45 pm

PSV lost Alex for 6 weeks or more. Gomes isn't confirmed to be able to play this weekend.

This is our best chance to beat them in Eindhoven, if we don't, we can forget about everything else.

Van basten · Bericht door **Van basten** » di mar 13, 2007 10:20 am

Kowalczyk wrote :

We f*cked it up in away games at Sparta Rotterdam and Vitesse away 0-2 up; 4-2 defeat)

little correcton - we lost 0-3 to sparta. the worst game of the season

Bericht door **Kowalczyk** » di mar 13, 2007 11:40 am

Van basten schreef:Kowalczyk wrote :
We f*cked it up in away games at Sparta Rotterdam and Vitesse away 0-2 up; 4-2 defeat)
little correcton - we lost 0-3 to sparta. the worst game of the season

Ummm, I didn't mention the result of the Sparta game anywhere, so there's not much to correct...

K.

Van basten · Bericht door **Van basten** » di mar 13, 2007 2:14 pm

Kowalczyk schreef:
Van basten schreef:Kowalczyk wrote :
We f*cked it up in away games at Sparta Rotterdam and Vitesse away 0-2 up; 4-2 defeat)
little correcton - we lost 0-3 to sparta. the worst game of the season
Ummm, I didn't mention the result of the Sparta game anywhere, so there's not much to correct...

K.

my mistake :D

666 · Bericht door **666** » di mar 13, 2007 3:21 pm

Abandon all hope ye who dreamt of beating PSV.

www.at5.nl schreef:Eric Braamhaar fluit zondag de topper tussen PSV en Ajax in Eindhoven.

Philippe · Bericht door **Philippe** » di mar 13, 2007 3:34 pm

all we need is a good referee :frusty:

ajax-erie · Bericht door **ajax-erie** » wo mar 14, 2007 12:59 am

Great posts from everbody!!

Here's my thoughts for Ajax: JUST WIN

Dubbel · Bericht door **Dubbel** » vr mar 16, 2007 6:58 pm

Who cares if the league is already decided and the ref sucks? It's time for a convincing win in Eindhoven. My guess is that it will happen. If for no other reason than to piss them off. :sly:

bluedaddy19 · Bericht door **bluedaddy19** » vr mar 16, 2007 10:19 pm

also no kromkamp and gomes for psv