Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Hoogtepunten Ajax - sc Heerenveen

Ajax cruised into the Champions League final with a seemingly effortless win over Heerenveen yesterday. A red-hot FC Twente team awaits in Saturday's first leg of the finals. Twente have shown that they they can play with (and beat) anyone in the Eredivise this year, and an 8-1 aggregate victory over a good NAC team in the first round scares the crap out of me. I did not see either of the games in this matchup, so I'm not sure if it was a case of Twente playing well or NAC just playing like crap? 8-1 is an impressive result either way.

The Ajax victory yesterday wasn't without incident, with both Suarez and Stekelenburg having to be subbed out due to injuries, with Suarez' appearing to be rather severe. If Suarez is not available on Saturday, Ajax can be thankful that they got such a good game out of 19 year old Jeffery Sarpong yesterday. Sarpong looked a bit shaky in the first 44 minutes, but his penalty kick win before the half, his assist on Dennis Rommedahl's goal and a well played 2nd half should give the team a boost if Suarez isn't available. Would Koster put Rommedahl in the starting 11 if this is the case?

Anonymous said...

"Ajax cruised into the Champions League final"

We're a long way from the CL final, mate ;)

Hup Ajax Hup

SydAjax said...

Haha..yyyyeah good catch there. Thanks for reading :)