2 - 0 Cup Win

I finally had time to watch an Ajax match yesterday, and the KNVB Cup match against Utrecht turned out to be a good one to watch. Ajax dominated this match from the start and should have won by much more than the 2 - 0 final score.

A half empty (but still rather boisterous) ArenA crowd watched a masterful Ajax attack continuously bombard the Utrecht goal, but young Michel Vorm kept his side in the game until the last 20 minutes. A rarely tested Ajax back line looked solid, with excellent games turned in by Urby and new boy Eyong Enoh in particular. Van Basten praised his new midfielder, who impressed in a substitute role against Feyenoord and played the full 90 yesterday in place of Evander Sno. But the player that impressed ME the most yesterday was man of the match Luis Suarez. The Uruguayan winger was all over the pitch, shedding defenders, finding open space, creating a penalty shot and then scoring a beautiful goal from an impossible angle just a minute after KJH had missed the aforementioned PK. Suarez then layed a perfect pass off to KJH in the 87th minute that Klaas easily converted to seal the victory.

Ajax played well and looked like the well oiled machine they are supposed to against a Utrecht team that really never showed up to play. The one bonehead play of the day was an awful clearance/pass/whatever is was by Steks early in the first half that basically gave an Utrecht player the ball with about 20 yards of open space between him and the goal. Thankfully Urby was there to clean up his mess.