Topic: Eredivisie 23/24 - discussion thread - page 20. (Read 16247 times)

Ajax performed extraordinary by beating Go Ahead Eagles with a score of 3-2. It shows their mentality and shows that they are back to their best. I think Ajax can get a place in third or fourth place in the standings at the end of the season. But I think Ajax will be difficult to get third place because Twente played quite well in the last five matches.

But we should not underestimate AZ Alkmaar. Many people say Alkmaar are a mediocre team and they will be eliminated in the second half of the season. But their first match is against Twente and we know Twente is in their best form.

First half of this season was having some troubles for the Ajax and PSV is going ruthless without losing any point but now as things comeback on his best look like excitement will be at the top, and we will have soccer full of entertainment from these top teams in last five games we have 13 points for the Ajax which is now at the 5th spot and having just 5 points difference from the AZ Alkmaar which is badly struggling and can lose his spot to Ajax in coming weeks, but Ajax is having target of third spot which is not easy but how things going to have turned it's also important because Twente is also at his best, and we can expect tough challenge for them and Ajax for the third spot with PSV and Feyenoord are going to stay at the top without any challenge difference is big and matches are just 17 remaining.

The Eredivise is competitive no doubt and consistency works very much for the teams there. It's winter season and so the teams ought to brace up to gain enough grounds ahead of post winter break. PSV and Ajax are doing explicitly well in the league as they've been able to keep up with game victories too.
For Alkmaar, they're lagging behind and it's really taking toll on them and their points on the league table too.
 
 They've just got to find a balance and get back to their pace. Their league isn't even as competitive as other European leagues as there are just a few teams that are tough in their play. They can still meet up with points and stay at a good spot on the table too. Congratulations to Ajax and PSV, they're good and are growing better gradually regardless of the little loopholes that they're having too.

Ajax began the 17th round with a win after two weeks before they had a friendly match at the beginning of the new year.
Winning with a score of 2-3 in the away match against Go Ahead Eagles is a threat to AZ Alkmaar.

Ajax has risen from the bad performance they experienced at the start of the season. Now Ajax has received 8 wins from 17 matches this season. 5 wins obtained in the home match and 3 wins obtained in the away match.
The number of goals that they managed to make so far passed the number of goals made by AZ Alkmaar and Twente. Ajax's shortcomings are only weak in the defense because the number of conceding their goals is more than the two teams above.


Feyenoord in Eredivisi is still good but problematic when playing in other competitions outside of Eredivisie.
The acquisition of Feyenoord points is threatened by FC Twente because it is only 2 points. Where if Feyenoord makes a mistake, then FC Twente will replace Feyenoord in the standings.

Ajax is doing good recovery after having the worst start of this season in last 10 matches they won 7 and have 2 draws which mean they can achieve better results until end of the season with third spot is still possible for them because Twente and AZ Alkmaar both are losing points and Ajax current form is amazing.

Feyenoord is also having problems, but they are still capable of staying at the second spot while defend of title is now not possible for them while they are having 12 points difference and half of the season is ended so in next half cutting this difference is looking hard job for them with their current form.

It was definitely a good round for Ajax, they made up points on AZ and gained points on Ajax's rivals.

Unfortunately I didn't see the game, but according to the stats, Ajax had a lot of possession and a lot of passes, but in terms of direct shots on goal, they were only half as good as the Eagles.

Feyenoord also losing points, it will be almost impossible to defend the title.

This season PSV has got a good form and it's very evident in their domestic league performance and even in the group stages games in the champions league ,they were doing really well and their performance do showed they deserved to qualify upto this stage now and I'm optimistic about their performance at this stage.

With the performance PSV currently ha e at their league, even if I know that the champions league is way more competitive but then been able to win most teams consecutively in their league and staying at the top of the table with a very wide margin is enough to tell that they are not to be taken for granted and should be watched. This season it's very possible PSV will win the eredivisie title and aswell get to the quarter finals of the UCL which will indeed be a great achievement for them so far this season.

But PSV is playing like a monster right now and they don't stop winning. On average they win every game with three goals difference. It doesn't really look like competition anymore, but I believe that the only title PSV is still playing for is to not lose a single point in the whole season.

I am wondering whether PSV is so much stronger than all the other teams or whether all the other teams are quite a bit weaker than last season. The Champions League will be interesting because it iis hard to tell what their results in the Eredivise mean in the Champions League. It looks impressive, but the Champions League is a different business although I think they have a good chance to beat Borussia Dortmund.

I was also expecting some surprises as we are heading for the second half of this season with first game of the new year and after break can bring any shocking result but Ajax done good job and with scoring two goals in first half give them good advantage which they were able to keep until end even GA Eagles also done good job and keep pressure on Ajax for the equalizer, but their defense were sharp and well settled which handle this all now after this match we have end of 17 rounds and Ajax is having 28 points their difference is 11 points from second spotted Feyenoord and 9 points from third spotted Twente which mean they can go through in this half for third spot and having another chance for the Champions League into next season but this all needed full commitment and hard job.

It was a very complicated game for Ajax, despite having great possession of the ball, the opponent was still extremely lucky when it came to scoring goals, first Ajax scored a goal, but then the opponent scored a goal and the game was tied, ajax scored a goal again and the opponent also scored the second goal again and with that the game was tied, I even thought that the game would end in a draw, when ajax scored the third goal I still kept thinking that at any minute the opponent would be able to score the equalizer. Fortunately, Ajax came out of the game with victory, and with this victory, Ajax is 5 points away from reaching AZ. Man, what I see in the table makes me laugh a lot. Until a few months ago Ajax was in the relegation zone but today they are close to position 4 and with a high probability of finishing in position 3 or 4. I must congratulate the Ajax coach who is doing a good job

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Twente 2 - 1 AZ

Before this game started, I was very convinced that Twente would win this game, I couldn't see Twente losing, that's because Twente are having a good campaign this season, they have had few defeats, I would say they are consistent, unlike AZ that the last few games have been inconsistent and they came into this game having lost, that's why in my opinion Twente would win that game and that's what happened, it's funny that AZ scored the first goal and very early, I confess that yesterday when I saw that AZ I was ahead, I wasn't worried because I was convinced that Twente could still reverse the result. with this victory, twente remains in third place while AZ remains in position 4 and with the risk of ajax passing them

Feyenoord 2 - 2 NEC

wow, it was a game with a lot of goals, but it was a disappointing game for Feyenoord, who in the 1Half ended with them winning 2 - 0, they are very close to winning the game easily, I even thought that in the 2 half they would be able to score more goals , but I didn't think they would tie the game, in the 2 half NEC did very well as they managed to score 2 goals to tie the game. With this draw it becomes clearer every day that PSV are already champions this season. I honestly don't see any team that can surpass PSV in the table

Very nice to see finally this tournament reutrning, it was a little bit boring only having 3 tournaments in play like LaLiga Premier League and SerieA, now we restored the Eredivisie Bundesliga and Ligue 1.

A very laborious win for Ajax in this restart.

Ajax have not been at their best performances but they've definitely been winning games and have been consistent to it. Definitely a coach has his own impact in a team, once the head is faulty, there'll always be loopholes. It means a lot for a team to get victorious consecutively in a row and for Ajax, that's caused a gradual improvement regardless not doubting that they still have to put in more work. They've got players no doubt but the squad needs to be better, Ajax is a team better than a narrow win, at the moment though, finding the right player who's top and ready in all areas to give that competitive capacity in both the domestic league and the European leagues will be hard.

 Every team won't want to loose their kept men and every player that's be free are the ones that weren't so solid for the team. It's quite expensive to get for a team a high valued player no doubt and Ajax management may not likely be up to the task and it's going to be unsafe to settle for a less standard player. Their inconsistency is unhealthy and they just have to find a way to stop the wins from occuring through a narrow means. The coach is good at what he does but he has to improve himself and the team too, once all the necessary characteristics needed are in place, then it'll be an easy ride for Ajax.

The resume of the season is always tricky and we might see unexpected results.
Ajax Amsterdam were able to maintain positive results in their latest games after their catastrophic start in the relegation zone. Go Ahead Eagles are seventh in the ranking and they missed many points lately with 2 defeats and two draws.
Ajax Amsterdam are better in the past years and used to dominate their rivals and their odds are even better in this match. I expect both teams to score and one goal difference between the two. Obviously it will be quite random this match in the beginning of the year..

Don't be surprise if Ajax lose this game today. To me, I haven't seen any good change in their performance. Both team are almost similar in performance. I think both team will have a goal in this match, so I'm expecting o2.5 goal in the match.

Ajax is now  much more better than they were earlier and I think it's cutting across all tier of their players be it the first and the later, they are all have good performance recently and it's indeed helping them get much more from their performance. A win for me wasn't much of a surprise as I expected such from them and not any less.

If Ajax wins against Go Ahead then the difference in points with AZ will only remain 5 points and that means they have a chance to qualify for the European league qualifiers . That means AZ has to lose 2 more times and AJax wins the match so Ajax will overtake AZ with a difference of 1 point. Go Ahead Eagles is not a team to be taken lightly because they often surprise in several situations. Although I'm sure Ajax will win that match.

But AZ's defeat was predicted because their opponent was Twente who was in third place. Will AZ perform badly so that they suffer 2 more defeats and Ajax wins them all? I think we shouldn't underestimate AZ like that.

Ajax had a lot of departures last year, even the successful coach left Ajax, and then a lot of players, even if Ajax had record revenues, it was not a good decision from a sporting point of view.

For today's matchday, AZ has lost so tomorrow Ajax has the chance to make up points on AZ. As expected PSV is already 2:0 up in the 20th minute, think the game could end 4 or 5 to zero in favour of PSV.

Ajax have not been at their best performances but they've definitely been winning games and have been consistent to it. Definitely a coach has his own impact in a team, once the head is faulty, there'll always be loopholes. It means a lot for a team to get victorious consecutively in a row and for Ajax, that's caused a gradual improvement regardless not doubting that they still have to put in more work. They've got players no doubt but the squad needs to be better, Ajax is a team better than a narrow win, at the moment though, finding the right player who's top and ready in all areas to give that competitive capacity in both the domestic league and the European leagues will be hard.

Every team won't want to loose their kept men and every player that's be free are the ones that weren't so solid for the team. It's quite expensive to get for a team a high valued player no doubt and Ajax management may not likely be up to the task and it's going to be unsafe to settle for a less standard player.Their winning consistency is good but they just have to find a way to stop the wins from occuring through a narrow means. The coach is good at what he does but he has to improve himself and the team too, once all the necessary characteristics needed are in place, then it'll be an easy ride for Ajax.

Every top team can have a bad season in their local league. The important thing is to find a way to start recovering. For now Ajax look like they have done it. Because there is a huge development in their results. We are only halfway through the season too so Ajax have lots of time to make up for their bad start. It won't be easy to make it to top 3 though.

Because the point gap with Twente is 9 now and there is a team between them in the league table also. Ajax just need to keep up the good work and they will hope for the teams above to lose points as much as possible. 

Ajax would do his best in the Conference League too I guess. They can have a good achievement there if they do because there aren't so many quality teams there.

Every team having good and bad days with currently in this season we are having in Premier League few top ranks clubs are struggling even they spend huge amounts for the improvement but still nothing positive happening, so Ajax was also in bad shape, and they were struggling with now on recovery which is surely good, and they are back in business without losing too much time because here in Eredivisie we have no competitiveness like Premier League and difference of quality is also wide open which is not allowing many teams to improve their squads for the top quality.
Ajax is one of the best club in UEFA with having good history and performance so they are now back and most chances we will have them at the better spot until end of this season as well even for me, they can go through for the top three.