bluedaddy19 schreef:i still find myself wondering why gabri was taken out, he was the best player on the pitch tonight

I thought so too but he was dragging a leg and looking at the bench from the start of the second half.
Must have taken a knock.

Over Pasanens Head schreef: As to the 35,000 I took that figure from a newspaper that I was flicking through at Sciphol Airport this morning. At the ground I thought that it looked around 37,000 so it is in the right ballpark

35,000 stayed at home is more like it. More than half of the ground was empty!

The interesting thing about Ajax's midfield at the moment is that none of the midfielders have a fixed position. Sneijder is not a 'number 10' in the classic sense, but a more withdrawn (you might say 'defensive') midfielder. But Gabri takes over from him all the time, so that Sneijder can move for...