Ajax friendlies

[SPL]

Finished 2-0 to us .Were you watching Dave? Nice that Milik and El Ghazi got goals

[Dave the mac]

SPL - yep rojadirecta had a couple feeds. Was thinking El Ghazi should be the striker Ajax is looking for.
I know you don't rate Dijks that high but I thought he played quite well, and certainly vd Hoorn should be preferred to Heitinga....just pre-season, I know, but I liked what I saw today.

[SPL]

Thanks Dave .Sadly rojadirect amongst others has been blocked in this country by order of the High Court . Clearly the rest of the world can still see them.

El Ghazi and indeed Fischer could still play as effective strikers.Glad Djks impressed.He clearly has benefited from a year at Willem.

[Dave the mac]

Ajax in the Arena vs Wolfsburg just underway.
Not to busy at work, hope it stays that way....

[Orange14]

0-0 at the half and both teams had some decent chances. Veltman shot right at the keeper in the 44th minute after a couple of caroms in the box. Really good to play a top rank team like Wolfsberg. I imagine that this might be the starting 11 for FDB.

Starters: Cillessen, Dijks, Riedewald, Veltman, Tete, Bazoer, Sinkgraven, Klaassen, Fischer, Milik, el Ghazi

el Ghazi looks quicker this year. I don't think Milik had more than one touch. Fischer also had a decent chance but shot it at the keeper as well.

[Dave the mac]

Entertaining 1st half ends at 0-0. Great chance for Ajax just before HT after some nice work from Klaassen.

[Orange14]

wow, what a nice goal by Klaassen from Menig from Dijks!!!

[SPL]

The main streams are all closed here in uk.Will have to find one for the CL qualifiers.

Earlier we drew 1-1 with Wolfsburg U23's with Muric scoring our goal.Sanogo ,who officially joined today played45 mins. VRhijn ,v dHoorn,Viegever, Andersen ,Gudelj were the other 1st teamers who played in this game.

[Dave the mac]

That sucks SPL about the streams.
Wolfsburg replied right after Ajax scored 1-1 now.
Heitinga came on to a huge roar from the crowd.

[Orange14]

1-1 was a fair result with both teams having chances. Ajax almost got the winner in extra time with some nice passing but Menig shot hard but an easy save by the keeper. Ajax were decent but too many soft passes yet again. Couldn't tell whether it was Bazoer or Menig who made a disastrous back pass right to de Bruyne who was in on goal. Tete looked very good at right back and Younes got five minutes of play near the end at left wing.

[SPL]

A good workout by the sound of it against a good class team.

[Dave the mac]

Indeed, Wolfsburg has deep pockets and some big-time players. Much more resources than our beautiful club.
However it was a very even match and fun to watch. I think there's lot's of optimism for the upcoming season.

Menig came on in the 2nd half and had a intimidate impact, beating his opponent and delivering a great cross that Klaassen headed in for the 1-0. Then right away his back pass that led to the 1-1. Felt bad for him.
Yeah Tete played great, Van Rhijn will only play if he get's injured.

[Ayman]

So Tete is doing better than Van Rhijn. That's nice. What about Damian Van Bruggen, he is another talent that can play right back. Perhaps he could move up above Van Rhin in the pecking order?

[SPL]

v Bruggen plays CD but is currently injured,think he had an operation end of season,(don't think it was a long term innjury.) Owusu is the lad in Jong Ajax who is rated as a right back and could in another year overtake V Rhijn.Lartey Sanniez has mainly played RB but played this month as a CD for Dutch u 19 and looked good there.

One mega problem with Tete ,his agent is Raiola and he took a long time to renew his contract and only then to 2018. One good season and Raiola will want him going to Italy. Thank goodness Kishna and Tete are the only first teamers with Raiola.

[Orange14]

I only watched the last 10 minutes and saw Ajax concede a bad goal when nobody closed down the shooter and they lost to St. Etienne 1-0. I think this is the last competition until the CL qualifying round begins next week.

[Dave the mac]

True the St. Etienne player was free but a long ways out, it was a great goal.
I was able to watch a bit of it. Sinkgraven and Tete played very well. The new guys played, Younes started and Sanago came on in the 2nd half - he may be a useful player.

[afcajax73]

Sinkgraven has looked decent, he looks like he could be the shining star for us this year (as probably expected)

[saddlerian]

Managed to watch the whole game, good feeds.....Sinkgraven, Tete and Riedewald had good games, but the most impressive was Veltman, always cool at the back....and adventurous looking forwards!! Just wish that more of the team looked towards the opponents goal rather than their own!! Still seems to be the idea "I'm not going to take the risk, you do it!". It's about time that some of these players took more risks....look at the St E goal.....shot from nowhere, a risk...and a great goal!!!

[Van basten]

Sanago came on in the 2nd half - he may be a useful player.

I actually expect a lot from him. He has lots of potential, and not every Arsenal fan was happy, that Wenger loaned out him this summer.

[saddlerian]

True, many Arsenal fans thought he was "the one", but don't think he's performed anywhere near Milk's form....rather have Milik, Fischer and El Ghazi up front, especially as Milk, now with the world watching, is becoming more active, whereas Sanago didn't produce that sort of thing at Arsenal, his performances getting worse as he seemed to try harder!!!

[SPL]

Was going to find a stream for this game but my son finished a 5 year relationship with his girlfriend so even Ajax took a back seat.

One point it seems our starting lineup for this game will be our lineup for the start of the season.4 teenagers and Veltman at 23 the oldest outfielder not sure of our prospects in the CL qualifiers. At least my Man U mate is certain that Cillessen will be with us as de Gea wont leave until until next summer ,fingers crossed.

Our Jong beat Cuijk,non league team with El Azzouzi scoring a hattrick and Meleg and Muric 1 each.

[SPL]

A friendly yesterday at deToekomst behind closed doors v Umm Salal of Qatar,for our first team subs plus reserves.

We won 6-1 having been 6-0 up at HT but they played their 2 nd team for the first half but first team for the 2nd half.

Sanogo scored 3,Schone 2, and Andersen 1.These 3 played for over half a game with Boer,V Rhijn Heitinga,vd Hoorn and Viegever the whole game. ,The other starters El Mahdioui,Bakker and Nouri,all midfielders with other Jong Ajax Warmerdam,Hendriks,Meleg and vd Beek used as subs.No proper wingers used.

[SPL]

Jong Ajax drew 1-1 with Saudi Arabia team Al Shabab yesterday Cerny scored a late goal.I note apart from 3 or 4 long term injured the only Jong/reserve who did not feature in either of this weeks 2 friendlies was Duarte and I dont think he is injured.

[SPL]

Played Almere City in a friendly today at deToekomst 1-1 and Sanogo scored our goal .

Line up shows 8 from our 1st team squad

Onana

VRhijn v d Hoorn Viergever,Dijks(Acolatse 62)

Heitinga,Clement, Schone

Cerny(Muric 46) ,Sanogo(Hendriks46),Younes

[souras84]

Who the hell is Clement? And what is going on with Muric? He came as a great talent and I can't see him ready to break into the 1st team