Champions league and Europa league thread (General)

AZ with a dreadful start. I've never seen Stengs and Koopmeiners play worse. They have been awful so far. Going to need a big hour to get out of this mess

 

Holy crap AZ play awful but get a miracle win somehow with ten men

 

Terrible how Boadu gets a second yellow for a dive (and will miss the Man United game), while the same didn't happen for Osimhen of Lille yesterday, for a blatant dive.

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PSV give up the early goal with terrible defending. Who would have guessed that lol. Their defence is so bad

 

Van Bommel has to be sacked

 

Wow, just wow.

 

Watched the extended highlight AZ match... looked like a great escape. What a comeback! Boadu’s two yellow cards were complete brainfarts (good lessons for him!), but I guess it didn’t matter in the end as AZ pulled through the group with one match to spare. AZ are truly quite a story this season!! Hope they go far...

 

They got that "if it can't be done beautiful we'll do it ugly" mentality.

 

I really do love watching them play. PSV should be fun to watch but Van Bommel ruins it. Such a disappointing year with the talent they have. And hopefully Feyenoord can pull off a miracle on matchday six. Was hoping all four teams would make it through to the next round

 

https://www.ad.nl/europees-voetbal/...e-en-turkije-definitief-van-zich-af~a0776b47/
Coëfficiëntenlijst: Nederland schudt Oekraïne en Turkije definitief van zich af

Het moet wel heel raar lopen wil Nederland aan het einde van dit seizoen niet in de top tien van de UEFA-coëfficiëntenranglijst staan, dat is na de Europese week inmiddels wel zeker. Nederland bezet op dit moment de negende plaats met 34.950 punten, maar heeft zelfs nummer acht België in het vizier. De coëfficiëntenranglijst bepaalt hoeveel deelnemers een land mag afvaardigen in Europa. De kampioen van ons land plaatst zich daarmee weer rechtstreeks voor de Champions League.

Sportredactie 29-11-19, 14:08

 

Onana could be out of the crucial Valencia match with a hamstring. Was in hospital for a MRI scan.

 

Where did he pick this injury up, in training??

 

Yup, during training he went to the hospital.

 

No Promes, but Onana will start against Valencia: https://www.telegraaf.nl/sport/1720019792/ajax-trainer-ten-hag-promes-niet-onana-wel-tegen-valencia

 

Missing Promes is bad. Leading scorer and has really been growing into his role at Ajax.

 

Move Ziyech to the left and that is fixed. Just look at the formation used last season against Real in the front and midfield. Only one adjustment needed from that one.

 

But then without Neres...
Losing Promes is bad but doable... but losing both Neres, Promes and even the backup Labyad is really rough. Without Neres or Promes we have no speed or width.
This reminds me of last season when Neres got injured so we had to flip our entire formation forcing us to put in a terrible Dolberg. This year due to the added depth with Promes we can manage without Neres.... but not if we also lose Promes.

We are gonna really really need Noa Lang to step up. Ziyech will have to step to the wing along with Lang on the other side and our midfield will have to have the less football-effective blok of Alvarez and Martinez. I’m nervous about this, I have a bad feeling about the game. I already did, but now even moreso. This is a position we did not deserve to be in, and now it will be a huge test to go against all odds and still make it out...

 

You could put Dest there. He started as a winger in YAjax and has speed. Added bonus he's quite some distance away from the back line.