Completely unnecesary defeat, again. Gonçalo Borges is the only Feyenoord player to have an unsatisfactory result in the lost Europa League match against VfB Stuttgart. The highest mark was for Luciano Valente.
9020 I've been watching two matches and the highlights of this weekend from our UEFA coefficient clubs. Boy, I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but from what I saw we are going to get zero points this week. PSV won it's match. but should have been down 3 goals at the break. The fact that their goalie was the man of the match is telling. Unfortunately this is a double whammy match as it's against a coefficient competitor: CL 25th of November: CL 26th of November: EL 27th of November: Conference League 27th of November:
9059 Ouch, it's unreal to see this bottom stand for both Ajax and Benfica. Hope they switch places and Benfica is the one with "Zero Points".
Too bad they cannot award zero points for a 0-0 draw. Ajax or Benfica will pick up a point or three today. Chances are good it will be Benfica.
Ajax - Benfica full time stats: Statistics after the first half Intermediate score: 0-1 Shots: 3-5 Shots on target: 1-1 Possession: 62-38% Passes: 245-166 Fouls: 8-4 Corners: 3-2
Although Ajax lost for the fifth time in the Champions League, there have been no hard failures after the defeat against Benfica. The highest mark was for Rayane Bounida.
9307 Feyenoord has remained in the Europa League on one win. Celtic recorded its second victory in De Kuip: 1-3. After a sloppy start, Feyenoord's first chance was a hit: after some good work by Valente and Steijn, Ueda struck via the post the goal. Celtic pinned down Feyenoord and came alongside via Yang, who popped up at the second post. Hatate signed before halftime after a miss by Wellenreuther for the Scottish lead. Even after that, Feyenoord had little grip on the energetic opponent for a long time. It was only in the last quarter that the Legion rebounded on a header by Diarra on the crossbar and the debut of Van Persie. Nygren quickly quelled that brief upswing.
AZ has recorded its second win in the Conference League. It set the Irish Shelbourne in Alkmaar with 2-0 back. The Dubliners, with the Dutch goalkeeper Speel, were hardly dangerous before halftime, but AZ also created little. The left winger Bouziane, who made his debut in the starting line-up, went for his own success twice and after a free kick by Mijnans there was a chance for Parrott, who shot wide. AZ, which was fiercer after the break, saw Speel save on goal attempts by Parrott, Mijnans and Smit. After Owusu-Oduro had defused a huge opportunity from Martin, De Wit sent a beautiful header in on a cross from Koopmeiners. A shot by Jensen resulted in the 2-0.