25 Sep 2010: FC Twente - Ajax

[Kowalczyk]

And now for a serious testcase.

If we want something (like: win the league) we will have to start squeezing some points out of road games like this one.

Kick-off time: 20:45 CET.

K.

[ajaxcolombia]

This is it, this game will tell if we are really up to the challenge of winning the eredivise.

[Manneken Pis]

It sounds like Janko has a knee problem and may well be out of the game.....

[Kowalczyk]

There seems to be a lot of media attention for the 'Siem versus Luuk' aspect of this fixture. 'Battle of the De Jong Brothers'.

K.

[ferry]

It sounds like Janko has a knee problem and may well be out of the game.....

Nope, he's recovered from his knee injury and can play.

Apparently Dwight Tiendalli is out, suffering from a hip injury. Nicky Kuiper will replace him Saturday. Don't know whether that makes a big difference; I'm not too impressed with Tiendalli's qualities anyway.

[ajaxusa]

This game is being shown live (and in replay) on ESPN3.

[Orange14]

Lindgren again on for de Zeeuw in the midfield.

[Mr_Holte]

Anyone got a link which is not sopcast?

[Orange14]

Why do we keep giving up cheap goals???

[Orange14]

Even now after El Hamdaoui!!!!

[Orange14]

Damn, we hit the crossbar once, the post twice and had a couple of other clear shots. We should have at least 2 if not 3 goals this half. The Twente defense is terrible and we are getting all kinds of room on the left with Anita and Urby. I'm unimpressed with Douglas who has made some terrible mistakes on their back line and Rosales can't cover at all. Let's get a couple in the next half and head home with 3 points.

[souras84]

Or we could have conceeded 1-2 because of then breaking our offside trap. I think we control the game

[Orange14]

Or we could have conceeded 1-2 because of then breaking our offside trap. I think we control the game

Yeah, we do need to be more careful about the trap; it failed miserably as nobody picked up Janssen on his run.

[paladinby]

OK, Groningen got a late equaliser against PSV, which is good for us anyway.

Now go and score some goals guys. Ugly will do, they count as well.

We are going to break all the records for hitting woodwork this season.

[souras84]

And Suarez is showing his honest side of his character!!! Penalty not given even though it was deserved. If we survive tonight without losing, in a game we are the favorites, I know we've done such things before, we might be the favorites for the title

[Cedric]

Very good football so far.

[Orange14]

Crap defending once again. Why??????? 2-1

[Orange14]

WHAT A ROCKET. Enoh who was having a terrible match just redeemed himself; match on again!!!

[souras84]

A bit lucky, a bit unlucky.... SO I will go with the draw

[Orange14]

This really sucks! We should have won this match; no question about it. I beginning to really think that we need to find a new manager. Jol seems to have no clue about getting this team to play consistent football. If you look at the first 20 minutes when we were passing and creating overlaps, that was Ajax football. Then it disintegrated into English semi-long ball. Enoh was lucky to redeem himself as he had an otherwise poor match conceding possession and making some foolish fouls. Stekelenburg saved us on at least three occasions. We really need to do something about the midfield as having Lindgren and Enoh on the field at the same time is not good. I'm disappointed with the result (but glad to have the one point).

[souras84]

Well I didnt like Siem either

[Orange14]

Well I didnt like Siem either

Yup, really need to bury those chances!!!

[ajaxcolombia]

Wat a bummer, three points in this game would have been key to win the eredivise. At least groningen and psv tied so we're still ahead.

[aveslacker]

This really sucks! We should have won this match; no question about it. I beginning to really think that we need to find a new manager. Jol seems to have no clue about getting this team to play consistent football. If you look at the first 20 minutes when we were passing and creating overlaps, that was Ajax football. Then it disintegrated into English semi-long ball. Enoh was lucky to redeem himself as he had an otherwise poor match conceding possession and making some foolish fouls. Stekelenburg saved us on at least three occasions. We really need to do something about the midfield as having Lindgren and Enoh on the field at the same time is not good. I'm disappointed with the result (but glad to have the one point).

?????

Might I remind you what we looked like with the likes of Marco van Basten, Adrie Koster and Ronald Koeman as manager? The reality is that we just drew away to the defending champions. Perhaps we didn't look like Ajax circa 1973, but we're far more pleasing on the eye than we have been in the last five years or so. Complaining about the the style of play is what got Co Adriaanse run out of here, and he was probably the last good manager we had.

[Ajaxfanuk]

Ok yes we should have won this game and we nearly lost it..but we didnt.

Lets put this into perspective, last year we lost against 3 teams in the league (im pretty sure it was just Twente, PSV and Utrect?) but anyway, this season we didnt lose to Twente away, so in my eyes thats an improvement. I think our downfall is always against the smaller teams who grind draws out of us. Personally I'm more upset that we drew with Groningen than Twente (massive props to them for holding the Lightbulbs in Eindhoven btw)

We're top of the league by two points and we didnt lose a match we lost last year. Let's look to the future :)

Forza Ajax!