AJAX capitalized for Blue, Revenge cuz imo Ajax deserved a draw in their last 2 games against Milan. Maldini is back for Milan vdVaart is suspended, Maxwell is out most likely, Grygera is out due to suspension i think, Trabelsi is still injured, vDamme is out, and Pienaar is mostly out. i cant figure out the lineup, here is a try tho: Lobont De Jong...Heitinga...Pasanen...SQD Galasek...Litmanen...Sneijder cant figure out a 4th. Zlatan...Sonck Soetaers, Wamberto, Sikora, or maybe even Obodai could be seen in the mid, Blue said Obodai played well this weekend. IMO the only weak spot will be the 4th midfielder, not that weak tho. I like SQD as a LB instead of a center for this game cuz i think his mistakes wont hurt as much from there and he looked solid there when isaw him as a LB before.
just checked Ajax's website. Sonck is out, Maxwell is expected to play, vDamme is questionable, and Litmanen is probable. so assuming Maxwell and Litmanen are fit what do you do? Put Maxwell in the midfield and play Litmanen up front? if you dont want Litmanen up front could Ajax play a 4-3-3 with 2 wingers up front with Zlatan? or would they go with a 4-3-1-1? i am nervous, hopefully Blue comes up with the link for the webcast. btw how is the quality of the stream blue?
it is a splendid stream and the korean announcers add a strange ooomph to the webcast http://www.jinjumbc.co.kr/preview/vod_view2.php http://stream.andongmbc.co.kr/tv.htm my guess at a lineup ............lobont .....escudé...pasanen heitenga.............maxwell ............galásek ..obodai.............sikora ............sneijder ...................mitea .......zlatan perhaps soetaers for sikora or sneider at LM and litmanen in the hole - also yakubu could be anywhere from RB to CB to DM to RM
I dont want to sound ignorant...but from what I've seen, Vandervaart is on of the best young players I've seen so far! The guy is absolutley phenomenal: passing, freekicks, basically a very team-oriented player who can really work wonders. An Ajax team facing Milan without him is like a gun without its chamber. I think its perfectly plausible that the best chance Ajax team have (against an injury-free Milan; with the exception of Nesta's absence) against Milan is a draw. Ofcourse I could be wrong, football does have its mysterious moments, but then again my evaluation of Ajax's situation is not outrageous of any sort.
We have always played quite well without VDV. And certainly at the moment he's lost his position as one of the most important players. I'm more worried about missing Sonck and Trabelsi... and possibly Maxwell. Grygera out isn't good news either. Then again, we still have enough quality left... Hope to see Litmanen and Mitea in.
Mark it down. This will be a 0-0 draw. I don't see Ajax going all out for victory with the squad they have tomorrow. If they do they could can't burned by Milan on the counter attack. I think Ajax will take thier chances with Brugge on the last matchday and hope Milan defeats Celta at home. This is the lineup I expect Milan to play tomorrow: ---------------Dida---------------- Cafu--Laursen--Costacurta--Pancaro -----Gattuso----Pirlo----Seedorf---- ----------------Kaka--------------- ---------Sheva------Pippo--------- There is a slight chance Maldini will play but it is unlikely. It should be a good game either way though.
hey its astabooty, didnt realize im on a friends sn. anyway, which link is better? is there a difference?
Official Lineups Ajax: 1 Lobont Koeman said Heitinga is definitely 4 Escudé playing in the center so here is my 6 Galásek guess 9 Ibrahimovic.....Lobont 12 Heitinga ...yakubu...heitinga...sqd...maxwell 15 Maxwell ...obodai...galasek...sneijder...de jong 16 De Jong ...zlatan...mitea 18 Sneijder 22 Yakubu 26 Obodai 29 Mitea why is pasanen a sub???
Milan: 12 Dida 2 Cafu 3 Maldini 7 Shevchenko 8 Gattuso 9 Inzaghi 19 Costacurta 20 Seedorf 21 Pirlo 22 Kaka 24 Laursen
excellent opening 30 minutes for the good guys, a little ragged after that best AJAX players so far: yakubu (!), de jong, zlatan before he left - obodai looks good on D, but hasnt passed well in attack
The interenet feed said its gonna get cut off at 12:55 and is changing channels. So we cant watch anymore cuz the other channel isnt shown on webcast. The channel were watching now is gonna show some morning news. So when it dies, you must understand.
maybe its cuz of the webfeed and me not knowing korean, but i didnt notice obodai nor sneijder. yakubu was balling.
well everybody open your uefa.com matchtrackers - at least we don't have to watch pirlo act like a baby anymore to win crap calls pirlo for the pacifier d'or!!!
They have this other channel that works with espn and theyre just transferring the broadcast there. I guess if any of you are in korea you guys can watch it but for us webcast freeloaders, we can't do sh1t.