17 SEP 2014 Ajax-PSG CL Group F Match #1

[Orange14]

Hard to believe that the first CL match is coming up this next week. Financial Fair Play violator Paris St. Germain with former Ajax icon Zlatan Ibrahimovich visit the Arena in what could be a thrilling match up.

[Cruijff]

Let's kick some ass!

Ibrahimovic seems to be not famous enough to get his name written correctly by Orange so we're gonna beat that French money spending bastards! Exactly zero French players are expected to come in action for PSG by the way!

[Philippe]

Let's kick some ass!

so we're gonna beat that French money spending bastards!

I'm sorry to inform you that Qatar is not in France.
a French bastard

[Cruijff]

Yes but the UEFA boss who allows this 'Financial Fair Play' is from France (although I thought his roots were half Italian).

Platini, bastard!

[Philippe]

Xenophobic arguments are beneath consideration.

[Orange14]

All Right! Let's beat these guys!!! Andersen for el Ghazi?????? Sigthorrsson for Milik???? Maybe we don''t want to win this.

[Tom_]

I really want us to win this one!!!

Andersen starting?

[Orange14]

Really bad mistake by Boilesen. When you are pressured like that so deep you need to get the ball out of touch

[Tom_]

Nice work from Boilesen. He didn't manage to give the ball away on his first attempt but he really kept at it!

[Orange14]

Relying on Moisander from 25m out will not lead to a goal

[Manneken Pis]

I will never understand why no Ajax player, has ever been good at crossing the ball.
Is it beneath them to train in this?
At least five attacks broke down because of hopeless ones.

[saddlerian]

Well, a reasonable first half....at least we're only 1-0 down cos all we seem to be doing is "recycling" the ball....it's about time that someone actually took some sort of responsibility and courage to ATTACK with the courage that Siggy had in the 42 minute!!!!...(even though he was in our half of the field, he was TRYING to win the ball)

[Tom_]

Breaking news! PSG coaching staff hacks into Frankie's video collection and replaces the "hungry lions" movie with snoozing kittens...

Stupidity aside we are making tons of ridiculous mistakes, bad passes and heavy touches etc., but PSG don't exactly look like a top European side to me. It all made for a pretty boring 45 minutes.

[Orange14]

Unless we get an own goal I see this ending pretty much at the current scoreline. PSG are really not that good and we are pretty bad on the ball. Too many turnovers as usual. Serero just sucks the life out of the ball; Klassen seems clueless and his Yellow card was deserved; Sigthorrsson has no touch at all and Andersen just seems way too slow. Defense other than the pitiful play by Boilesen seemed OK. They did respond well to all the counter opportunities by PSG and did enough to concede only easy shots that were saved by Cillessen.

We really deserve better from this team. I guess el Ghazi and maybe Milik will come in now.

[SPL]

Not alot to add,Boilesen a big mistake for their goal.We cannot cross the ball because we have no wingers.

[Orange14]

Zimling for Viergever? Great idea, let's not sub on anyone who has a chance to score a goal.

[Tom_]

What on earth is going on with Boilesen? We'd be better off playing with 10!

[Orange14]

Superb free kick from Schöne!!!

[Tom_]

Yes!!! That was the only way we were going to score!

[saddlerian]

Just noticed...weren't EUFA notified about the kits? Why is the referee confusing some Ajax players? He should be in yellow......PRAT!!!

[Orange14]

So FdB takes off the only player who has a chance to score?????

[Ayman]

Im not into conspiracy theories. But is Frank de Boer paid to make sure Ajax doesnt win? And by who?

[Tom_]

That was indeed a strange one. I guess the Schöne for Milik switch was planned as part of the el Ghazi/Kolbeinn one, but still...

[Orange14]

If they could only bottle the last 15 minutes of this game and play this way all the time we would see some real football. Excellent effort when it looked like all was going downhill after the no call on Zimling. PSG were really not very good and maybe lots of €s doesn't make a proper football club.

I'll post player ratings in a bit as I have to go pick up my wife from the subway station!

[Tom_]

Well, we were pretty awful and a win would've been asking too much. PSG had some big chances to bury us in the first 20 minutes of the second half and probably should have done. However, if that's all they've got, I don't think they're much to be afraid of and maybe we've got a shot at second place after all.

I thought Zimling made a big difference and if he keeps fit he could turn out to be a good buy.

Edit: don't want to influence the esteemed judges too much but could Boilesen get the first ever zero? Or maybe even a minus??? ;)