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Friday, February 21, 2020 at 01:15
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Getafe offered Ajax a painful defeat in the Europa League on Thursday evening. The team of coach Erik ten Hag had nothing to say against LaLiga’s current number three in the first game in the sixteenth finals of the European tournament: 2-0. It meant for Ajax the first defeat in Europe since August 2017, when Rosenborg BK was 3-2 too strong for the team of then coach Marcel Keizer. The newspapers in Spain are unanimous in praise of the performance of Getafe, which has turned no less than eleven of the last fifteen matches in all competitions into question, and question the “loss” of Ajax compared to the European triumph of last season. “Getafe gives Ajax football lessons,” it says above the match report AS.
That Ajax did not shoot at goal once in the suburb of Madrid is mentioned several times. “Ajax has, historically speaking, one of the best football schools on the globe. But the icon of it fútbol total got a football lesson that will not be forgotten quickly: Getafe did not allow shooting at goal once. Bordalás gave Ten Hag football lessons. In the game of strategies that both trainers ventured into, as if it were a checkerboard, Ten Hag was checked. When Ajax emerged as an opponent during the draw, no one gave a penny for the chances of Getafe. However, eliminating Ajax is now possible. The return in Amsterdam is still waiting, but it is Ajax that is in need. A club that won the most important European tournament four times has lost to “a less team”. “
AS also points out that Valencia did not hit the target once either last weekend. “Bordalás managed to minimize an Ajax that a few months ago with modern, dynamic and enthusiastic football Real Madrid was the boss in the Santiago Bernabéu”, they referred to the 1-4, which in any case took place more than eleven months ago . “Your tongue won’t hurt if you spoil a team like Getafe, if you are Ajax and Valencia, teams with so many more options, in charge.” Donny van de Beek did not score points. “Van de Beek gave away a gala show in the Bernabéu and is seen as a reinforcement for Real Madrid for the coming season, but he was completely overrun by Mauro Arambarri and Nemanja Maksimovic.”
Bee Marca can be read that “Ajax now knows the football school of Bordalás”. “Cruyff, Bergkamp, Van Basten, Seedorf, Rinus Michels … and Bordalás”, is the list of the best-selling sports newspaper in Spain. “The trainer from Getafe is not a Dutchman, has never been part of Ajax, may have never taken a step on the training complex of Ajax, but after tonight he is part of the history of the Dutch club. Simply because Ajax and its players have suffered from Bordalás. Our readers and fans of football in general enjoy their way of playing football, their style, their methodology, but in the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez and for the time being in this double battle with Ajax, the game was played in the way Getafe wanted. In Spain we may be used to this football from Getafe, but in Europe Getafe plays just like that. Or perhaps it was even more efficient than usual. “
“Nobody in Europe can as Getafe play. Getafe’s football starts in the offense, and not so much because of, for example, the completion ”, that’s how the game of los Azulones. “More because of the work that is done and the pressure that is put on. It started tonight with Jaime Mata and Deyverson and was then continued by Ángel and Jorge Molina. But also because behind the attack with Arambarri and Maksimovic are two soldiers with several oxygen bottles. They prevented Van de Beek and associates from appearing in the game. Two different playing styles on the sides: the vertical football of Marc Cucurella and the work that Allan Nyom performs. Add to that the defensive line, with a Djené Dakonam that always meets the requirements and works hard. ” Marca even wonders if Ajax was in line with 11 men in the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez. “They all made sure that Dusan Tadic, Ryan Babel and Hakim Ziyech and associates no longer want to return to Getafe. Or perhaps they didn’t even show up, as they weren’t on the field. “
“Getafe leaves Ajax unsettled”, is the headline of quality newspaper El Pais. But also: “Ajax evaporates in the hell of Getafe”. “Soccer is smiling at Getafe and turning its back on Ajax. Ajax changed from the textbook example of offensive innovation to a team that could not shoot once at goal in ninety minutes. Getafe shot at goal four times and scored twice. ” The newspaper points out that last season Ajax did not need a striker to get far into Europe. “It was a team full of enthusiasts who combined to their heart’s content. The injured David Neres has now been replaced on the left by a tank, Ryan Babel. And there is another tank at the point of the attack, with a double wall: Lassina Traoré. On the right, where no one answers his intended one-two, the genius of Tadic is embittered. In midfield, the languishing Van de Beek is in poor company: Hakim Ziyech. A player who would rather play towards the outside, but have to play more centrally after the departure of Frenkie de Jong. If Ajax already had doubts in advance before they entered the field, Getafe succeeded in getting the enthusiasm down to zero. The damage was not so bad because Lisandro Martinez was several times in class and together with Daley Blind formed a kind of wall without hope. ”
The header of Mundo Deportivo is also telling: “Ajax sweeps up Getafe”. “Once the ball rolled on the field, it soon became clear that it would not be one of Ajax’s magic evenings of last season. Bordalás was out to choke on Ten Hag’s game. No short combinations, but duels around the ball. It was ninety minutes full of real terror for the Dutch. Ball conquests, duels for the ball and vertical solutions were the recipe for sweeping up an Ajax that the whole world fell in love with a year ago in its entirety. ” Also Sport takes no notice: “Too many Bordalás for not enough Ajax”. “This Getafe is not afraid of anything. The Bordalás team relies so much on its style that it is virtually unbeatable, “conclude the Catalans. “A tough opponent that teams like Ajax, that like to play the ball around, have a hard time. A poor version of Ajax was overrun by a Getafe that has dreams. Amsterdam still has to. This team has no ceiling. “
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