The Ajax It is before the most important week of the season. The Sunday hosts Feyenoord in the last classic of the year but before they are played its continuity in Champions League (follow the match live on AS.com). The first leg was more complicated than expected, with Lots of doubts after the break that led to the final tie at two. Since then, the team Erik ten Hag He has been saving the games as he could. The last two, against the weak Cambuur and Waalwijk, won 3-2 in minutes after 90.
“It is true that the matches this week They are two endings, but we face it game by game. Mainly, I care about ourselves. We have to make some things better“, Said yesterday Erik ten Hag. The most important is defensive solidity. From the day of the draw until the first leg, the scoring balance was 39-1. From the first leg to this second leg it’s 9-6. To do this, Ten Hag recovers his pair of central defenders plus starting pivot this season, something that has only happened in the important 2-0 semifinals of Cup in Alkmaar. Two of them, Timber and Edson Alvarezis it so warned.
The mood in Amsterdam is tense but trust in view of a Benfica about which they feel superior. Haller will have the incentive of recovering the throne of top scorer in the Champions League after the hat trick of Lewandowski last week.
For his part, the benficawho arrived in the first leg in the midst of a crisis, has recovered the flight since then, although Friday did not pass the tie against Vizela. Veríssimo still thinks the tie is 50-50 and hopes to take advantage of the defense’s moment of weakness ajacied.
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