AFC Ajax Thread[2007/2008]

[Silencer]

Yeah I know what you mean, Dinamo hasn't been beaten yet in the competition but then again the UEFA CUP is a whole different ballgame of course so we'll see how things will turn out. I'm sure Ajax don't want another f*ckup in European football and we don't either so they better reach the groupstages
AZ is not doing well it seems, they were two goals behind in Rotterdam against Sparta and only managed to get a draw.
I think we should be able to beat them in their own stadium but AZ is AZ so you'll never know, it was a big mistake to let Koevermans go and he showed this on saturday against Vitesse and Arveladze.....well he's something else!

Let's overcome the first hurdle shall we
Dinamo Zagreb away going to be tough and if it's a very tiresome game for the players it will have it's effect on the game sunday against AZ I'm afraid
But........let's stay positive (for now)

 

[Silencer]

YESSSSSSSSS good win against Zagreb tonight, very important awaygoal for us from Dennis, our defense was solid tonight against them it was great to see Ogararu back in the line-up he did so well tonight and you have to admit that one Zlatan Stam, Oga and Heitinga held our lines and the same goes for Urby who finally played well in a European game this season.
We should be able to finish it in two weeks and go through, it would be really really stupid if we won't manage but I have every faith watching Dinamo play. We can beat them at home


AZ up next on sunday! GO AJAX

 

[van der vaart]

yeah, bloody great result i have to admit that before the game, a draw sounded very very nice and i didn't expect much from this game. so this victory is even more sweaaaat lets kick some asses in alkmaar now!

 

[Zlatan]

It's a shame to see us play 'result' football out of lack of quality. But it paid off. I think we were stressing way too much for Zagreb, they weren't as impressive as everyone made them out to be.

BTW did you too notice that we started playing way better when Suarez entered the fray? Oh and also an honourable mention for Gregory van der Wiel, he played very well alongside man of the match(for me atleast) Japie, on his European debut. Also good to see Maarten make such progress in goal, he's becoming more and more reliable and is forfilling the prospect of replacing van der Sar on the long term in the national team.

 

[PSVFOREVER]

Wow, loved the Rommedahl goal, the only thing he's good at (running, preferably without ball) actually made him score.

I'm happy Ajax won though. If you do well in the UEFA-cup, that's excellent . PSV get all the money, and The Netherlands still get coefficients.

 

[Silencer]

MAARTEN STEKELENBURG MoM TODAY!!
He stopped a penaltykick (again) and was very impressive for us.

Great win against AZ with 2-3 it's a pity that they scored in injurytime but we won anyway thanks to LUIS SUAREZ (2x) and HUNTELAAR (1x freekick)
where the 2nd goal from Luis was a beauty

Feyenoord lost to psv with 0-4 holy hellllllllll so they are not as good as they think they were
Perez scored twice btw

We are 1st in the league now with psv

This wednesday Dutch cupfootball against Kozakken boys, should be an easy win for us and next week VVV at home so it looks like another good week is coming our way

Very bad news also I'm afraid that Jaap is injured and Vermaelen also and it doesn't look good for them.
Vermaelen was on crutches after the game

 

[van der vaart]

great victory indeed! thre away wins in 8 days. the fourth will be on wednesday
The man of the week - Steks!!! :Carlos*o:

 

[Zlatan]

Yeah good game. o/ Maarten \o

Bit worried about the injuries to Thomas and Japie though. They've been the heart of the defense this season and we will certainly miss them. Fortunatly not very difficult matches coming up with Kozakken Boys and VVV-Venlo.

 

[Zlatan]

Hmm, damn guys. We're going to have to miss Thomas for two months or so.

Good news is that Stam's injury seems to be less serious and he will be back in a week time.

 

[Silencer]

Two weeks I'm afraid
Medical staff will try to get him ready for the return against Dinamo Zagreb, let's keep our fingers crossed

Tomorrow against Kozakkenboys in the first 11 line-up: Urzaiz, Luque, Colin, and even Erik Heijblok our third goalie.
Ten Cate takes this game very serious though:"we want to win every game!"
I'm sure we will, curious to find out how Luque and Urzaiz will play together

 

[van der vaart]

Kozakken Boys - Ajax 1-2 AET.

30'[0-1] J.Heitinga (pen.)
88'[1-1]W.Looijen
104'[1-2] D.Rommedahl

Lets never talk about this game..

 

[van der vaart]

PSV disqualified from Dutch Cup tournament

Although PSV earned an emphatic 3-0 win over Young Heerenveen on Wednesday night, they have been disqualified from the Dutch Cup tournament for fielding defender Manuel da Costa, who was not eligible after he had picked up two yellow cards last season. “This is so embarrassing; we can never justify this inexcusable mistake”, admitted PSV General Manager Jan Reker.

Da Costa was handed a one-match ban last season, after he had been cautioned during cup ties against Go Ahead Eagles and NAC Breda. Da Costa, however, was included in PSV’s starting line-up on Wednesday night, so PSV have been disqualified from the Dutch Cup tournament in accordance with the relevant regulations. The KNVB, the Royal Dutch Football Association, informed PSV of the sanction on Thursday morning.

“This is an inexcusable blunder”, said Jan Reker, who did not hide his embarrassment. “I have immediately taken the decision to alter our administrative affairs procedures. We will make a thorough investigation and believe me, you haven't heard the last of that”, said Reker who added he felt sorry for the players, coaching staff, fans and sponsors. “We always compete for silverware, so I really, really regret not being able to win the Dutch Cup this season.”

And i thought that we were the bigest joke of the evening!

 

[Silencer]

AZ has been kicked out of the tournament also
They lost against FC Cambuur from the Jupiler League hahahaha Louis van Gaal fathead

 

[Zlatan]

So we actually did quite well versus Kozakken Boys, right?

Well atleast it shows it can always be worse.

 

[Silencer]

Just got back from the ArenA where we won with 6-1 against VVV Venlo.
In the first 4 minutes we came behind with 1-0 due to a big defenders error, Ogararu wasn't covering his man but we pulled back nicely with 6 goals!

1-1 Luque
2-1 Luque
3-1 Maduro
4-1 Delorge
5-1 Rommedahl
6-1 Huntelaar (of course)

Hunter scored 8 goals already, Suarez didn't score today but he worked very hard for others.
Johnny was MoM today and he did brilliant most of the game.

It looks like Jaap will be back on thursday against Dinamo Zagreb for the returnmatch

Bad thing today is that we lost Luque due to a groininjury after he scored twice and he won't be able to play against Dinamo as well.

Good news is that psv drew against NAC yesterday and that AZ LOST against Heracles

We are alone on top now, scored 26 goals in 7 matches and we are by far the team who produces the most goals in the competition which is very important since we lost the Championship last season by 1 goal!

This was the man today, scored twice within 20 mins.

 

[Zlatan]

Damn, just when Luque was turning it on he gets injured. For a moment I was worried when we came behind, but he saved us with his 2 goals. Very well done.
And overall a very good week too. PSV drawing and AZ losing(again).
AZ is now already 9 points behind us. Seeing as last year the title was decided by one goal, this means alot already IMO.

 

[van der vaart]

We are alone on top now, scored 26 goals in 7 matches and we are by far the team who produces the most goals in the competition which is very important since we lost the Championship last season by 1 goal!

24 goals in 6 matches really shame that luque get injury. hope nothing serious. it was good practise today, before thursday..

 

[Zlatan]

 

[Hopeunited]

..........

Unbelievable.

 

[Silencer]

We should bow our heads in shame this is a disgrace for Ajax
The team is not ready for Europe that's for sure!
We are the damn laughingstock of European clubfootball WTF!
Our coach has an agreement with Chelsea it seems and Martin Jol is linked to our club, I blame HtC for negotiating deals before this crucial game which resulted in this pityfull gameplay. I'm sick about it, f*ck this season all we can take is the championship and the KNVB Cup. Hopefully we can become champions and go straight to the CL next season but still a long way to go