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« le: 13 mai 2022, 00:43:58 »
Voici l'avis d'un blogger sur Ajax Showtime qui résume très bien la saison. Je l'ai laissé en Anglais traduit du Néerlandais par Google translate. On a enfin joué un super match hier avec une fluidité dans le jeu qu'on avait pas vu depuis le match aller contre Benfica et qui me rappellait l'équipe de 2018-19. Un mouvement perpétuel qui a donné le tournis à Heerenveen. Bien content que la saison se soit conclue sur un match d'un tel calibre.
Je dirais aussi que la compétition en Eredivisie était beaucoup plus intense que d'habitude. N'oublions pas que les PB finissent 2eme cette année juste derriere l'Angleterre au classement UEFA (avec presque 19 points) et que le PSV a fait mieux que nous contre tous les clubs du championnat hormis contre nous (2 defaites) et le Feyenoord (1 defaite et 1 match nul). Donc, si on ne les avait pas battu 2 fois, on n'aurait pas gagné le championnat, ce qui est remarquable car d'habitude ce sont les confrontations contre les "petits" qui decident le championnat. Le PSV qui avait une excellente équipe et Feyenoord qui pour moi sera notre adversaire principal la saison prochaine sous Slot ont atteint un niveau beaucoup plus élevé que ces 5 dernieres années. Donc chapeau à l'équipe et TH bien sur.
"It is true that we were fantastic in the first half of the season. We occasionally left a bit too much in the competition, because we had those games in which the ball just didn't go in, usually we had high 'expected goals'. We also played very good matches in January (especially Utrecht) and in February (Vitesse and Twente). Now that I look back on the whole season, I have the idea that the elimination against Benfica has brought it down quite a bit. Ten Hag has also stated that as the reason. And of course the hassle with Overmars, and the many injuries, especially in the back and on goal.
But, if you think about it, it makes sense. Especially after the first half of the season, you still had the idea that Ajax could face another 18-19-like season, or at least something that resembles it. And then with that rather favorable draw against Benfica. For many players, who have been first with Ajax for years in a row, or who also want to take a step higher at some point and for whom the Eredivisie is therefore not the most interesting stage, or who were there themselves in 18-19 , for many of those players it is true that they live for those CL matches. I think the elimination was just really hard. We were very good twice in the first half and less so in the second half, and we also just gave it away with three goalkeeper errors over those two games. I think that guys like Blind and Tadic subconsciously have something of, 'shit, that was the season'. Tadic is not going to try any less hard, but I think it has an effect. Also a Berghuis, he comes for the CL after all, and after that first half of the season it tastes like more, and that just hits hard, such a elimination. Haller, who suddenly scored in the CL, he had also imagined more of course. All those guys were suddenly completely out of shape after February. And those are the players with experience, who have to carry the business. It's not all that crazy, I think, that this is happening. In any case, they have always dragged out the victory, and Tadic in particular deserves respect as far as I'm concerned, because he has often been decisive in the 2nd half of the season.
All in all, not a bad season, if you just become champion, but of course it could have been better, and I think everyone hoped for that after that first half of the season, including the boys themselves."
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