"Sparta makes fools of Ajax
Sparta - AFC Ajax
3-0

KPN Eredivisie, Sunday August 27, 2000, 15.30 hrs, Eneco Stadion

AFC Ajax - NEC in:

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Just as we feared, after the big win over Fortuna Sittard, Ajax lost the match against Sparta this afternoon. Ajax was the better team for a huge part of the first half, but made a mess of the great number of chances it got - especially Shota Arveladze, who spoiled a whole bunch of them. The Georgian striker has been lacking confidence for about two seasons now. He creates plenty of chances, but scores little to none. In the end, Ajax went down 3-0.
Starting with the first whistle of referee Luinge, the match looked like a festival of errors. Many wrong passes were sent away, although we must say that Ajax played the better football in the opening phase. Unfortunately, playing better football didn't result in any goals. It was Sparta who almost scored the first goal during the first half, as the result of a free kick. Fortunately, the ball went past Fred Grim's goal.

The tide turned in favor of Sparta in the second half. Langerak, Elkhatabbi and Marbus scored Sparta's goals, and made Ajax look ridiculous while they were doing it. Brutil Hosé, who came into the match for Arveladze during the break, wasn't able to do anything at all to change it. Neither could the other two substitutes: Wamberto and Van der Gun, who replaced the failing Bobson and Van der Meijde. Sparta kept getting stronger and stronger as the half went on, and Ajax was powerless to do anything about it, as Sparta completely dicated the second half. Ajax never even came close to Sparta goalie Kooiman. Sad to say, Ajax hasn't won an away match since November 1999. Today's outing did nothing to end that ridiculous streak.

The result was a complete non-fulfilment of Ajax' hopes for this year. Luckily, it's early in the season so that everything can still be made right. But this defeat puts an inconvenient crimp in Adriaanse's plans of building a new Ajax. Quite a few players are still feeling the misery of last season, and now they have been dealt a new blow because of the match today.

To make matters worse, next week the Dutch Number One, NEC, comes to Amsterdam. The team from Nijmegen plays very good football, and scores easily. Maybe it is time to get that defender that Ajax needs and to make Bogdan Lobont the first keeper. Fred Grim is incapable of coaching his defense, so the 'advantage' that Adriaanse supposedly got by making Grim the first goalie, is not present. Also, hopefully, Arveladze can be put out of his misery by a return of Nikos Machlas. What a bummer! "

Ennyit találtam a meccsről még,lesznek képek is biztos de nem hinném hogy valakit is érdekel.Remélhetőleg majd a NEC ellen hazai pályán
9nap 23óra és 1perc múlva javitunk. :)

Hajrá Ajax!!!!!!!!