Ajax’s deep crisis has no end. The historic Dutch club holds the record for titles won in the Eredivisie (36), but this season, after the first eight rounds, it occupies 16th place, which at the end of the championship gives way in a playoff for permanence.
It’s surprising to see Ajax flirting with the relegation spots. An unusual situation. It’s true they’ve only played six games (they have two pending) but they’ve only added 5 out of a possible 18 and they’ve only beaten Volendam (penultimate) by one and Utrecht (bottom) by two.
Now the team led by especially asking Maurice Steijn They suffered their third consecutive Eredivisie defeat against AZ Alkmaar (1-2) and went their fifth game without a win. In fact, they just won the first game against Heracles (4-1). It was August 12.
AZ, unbeaten with seven wins and one draw, are second two points behind PSV who have won all their games after also beating Sparta Rotterdam today (0-4).
Ajax agreed a psychological goal, the work of Vangelis Pavlidis, in the 45th minute. After a break Dani de Wit made it 0-2 for AZ (57′) and the ‘ajacied’ reaction in the Johan Cruyff Arena remained 1-2 Branco van den Boomen (73′).
Van Gaal’s ill-fated debut as a mentor
All of this in the presence of Louis van Gaal in his first game since he returned to Ajax on the 4th as a sports advisor. Those times the former Dutch coach and former coach of FC Barcelona He led the historic Amstredam team to win the fourth European Cup/Champions League in its history (1995) and win the Eredivisie three times in a row (1994, 1995, 1996).
Source: La Verdad
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