Ajax-Cambuur L
Entry of:06-02-00
Ajax this week:
A superb 15 minutes in the beginning of the match was a good sign. Ajax totally overclassed
Cambuur and after a big chance, Machlas scored in his second attempt, the 7th minute.
A beautiful turn around set him eye to eye with keeper de Ron of Cambuur and passed
him like it was normal routine. Ajax kept the pressure high and Cambuur got nervous.
It was no surprise that that lead to a own goal. De Ron slipped and defender Loontjens
passed his own keeper in the 10th minute and the 2-0 got on the scoreboard. 5 minutes
later Laudrup showed his exceptional individual class by setting up a genuine slalom
through Cambuurs defense,outwitted de Ron and scored magnificently. After that Ajax
seemed to remember the form it has played in the last few weeks and the collapsing
of the team was shocking. A few chances were all Ajax got but no more of the great
play Ajax showed in the first 15 minutes. Cambuur L even sniffed at a few chances itself
and after the halftime it even found his way to the goal. Scharrenburg scored the 3-1
in the 48th minute. The crowd dozed off in the meanwhile, the game was completely
tiresome. They were too bored to whistle at Wouters, who himself was very surprised
that he did not get any criticism from the crowd at all in this game. But the fact that
the thoughts were not expressed did not mean that the crowd approved. There is a
unsatisfied feeling in general with the Amsterdam fans. More than ever before there is a
feeling of fear when looking ahead to the thursday match against PSV, and that feeling
is something that Wouters caused and that true fans don't need to accept.
Again, and I am gonna repeat till my tongue bleeds, SACK WOUTERS!!!!
Ajax next match:
Next on the program is the most difficult match of the season, away against PSV thursday
the 10th of february. Ajax can use a win or a draw, otherwise the gap will grow to
4 points again. If Ajax can manage is questionable, the weakness of the team is noticeable
and it will take a lot more than the team showed today to beat the Eindhoven squad,
especially after the moral-boost they got today scoring 6 times. Everything but a defeat
can be celebrated though the loss has to be calculated
Rest of the competition:
As stated above PSV had a walkover in and against den Bosch. The 6-2 was deserved, but
the team of Den Bosch is a very weak opponent, not a true standard after the 2 defeats
against Vitesse and Feyenoord. But still it gives the Eindhoven morale a twist up.
Feyenoord got lucky again in their game against Roda JC at home. The Rotterdam squad
was not the better, teams were equal, but got the 2-1 victory because of a good goal by
talent Cairo and clings on to the top teams again. Something that was never to be
expected after the bad seasonstart. Compliments on that one. Heerenveen did not have
the trouble with AZ that the table announced. A 3-0 victory prooved that the good
place of Heerenveen is no coincedence. FC Twente got stuck on 1-1 at Willem II,
the last together with Roda JC in a position on the table that is way too low.
RKC could not continue the line of winning and lost without a chance at home
from Fortuna Sittard, a 0-3 and a lot of very angry fans.
Moment of the week:
Machlas' and Laudrups goals were of great class and especially for Machlas that
must have been a great relief. Slightly but surely the Greek goalmachine gets
moving.let's hope we will see it in full motion this weekend. That Laudrup is
not a regular scorer is known fact, but that he scores beautifully when he does
is something that is also sure. Most irritating moment of the week is the
broadcast of the soccer this week. Normally at 7 o'clock the soccer of this week
had to wait until some crappy Japanese women were done iceskating, and so
it happened that in 40 minutes between 8:50 pm and 9:30 pm all the football
was shown in a flash. A typical case of bad priorities. Asking around would
let the editors know that football was what people wanna see. A very bad
move from the programmakers of the NOS!!!
Willem ter Haar
(Bored with iceskating and the last part of the Ajaxxgame)
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