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Ajax is consumed in the purgatory of Getafe

2020-02-20T22:17:57.241Z


The brilliant Dutch team of last year, lowered and suffering, is no match for the wild Bordalás group


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Until the last drop of the parties sip this thirsty Getafe that transforms the fuel into fire for his adversaries, all suffocated in sessions that do not give truce. The last to suffer was Ajax, until recently a spring team, suddenly required in the Europa League. The goal of Robert Kenedy Nunes, who entered in the 88th minute and scored in the discount after a brilliant counterattack, ended up disgracing him in the middle of the Madrid South team's party. Football smiles at Getafe and turns its back on Ajax, which went from being an offensive innovation model to simply being subjected, without being able to finish once a door in 90 minutes. The Getafe threw him four times between the three sticks and put two.

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Getafe

David Soria, Mathías Olivera, Damián Suárez, Etxeita, Djene, Marc Cucurella (Kenedy, min. 87), Nemanja Maksimovic, Mauro Arambarri, Nyom, Mata (Jorge Molina, min. 71) and Deyverson (Angel, min. 56).

Ajax

Bruno Varela, Sergiño Dest, Tagliafico, Edson Álvarez (Perr Schuurs, min. 66), Daley Blind, Babel, Tadic, Lisandro Martínez, Hakim Ziyech, Donny van de Beek and Lassina Traoré (Huntelaar, min. 66).

Goals

1-0 min. 36: Deyverson. 2-0 min. 92: Kenedy.

Referee

Ruddy Buquet

Mathías Olivera (min. 56), Djene (min. 43), Tagliafico (min. 53), Edson Álvarez (min. 35) and Babel (min. 54).

Stadium: Coliseum Alfonso Pérez

Eliminated from the Champions League, which established him as the most exciting team in the tournament a year ago, Ajax traveled to soccer purgatory. The 24 kilometers that separated the Getafe field from the Sacyr Tower hotel, the residence of the Dutch team, became an unpleasant forty-minute traffic jam along the M-30 and M-45. The public address of the stadium thundered with the harmonies of the polygon, Pursuit of Happiness , by Kid Cudi, when the Ajax delegation arrived. The faces of the women of the managers who settled in the box reflected the annoyance of the bus trip passing through the landslides of San Cristóbal, the railway moors of the Puente de Vallecas, the calcined canyons of the Manzanares and the bad smells of the plants of Usera purification between highway junctions under a brown sky.

It is not pleasant for these players, who recently dreamed of completing their careers with the brightest of titles, feeling lowered. On the pitch, the agonized contrast proposed by Getafe must have been a further punishment for fate. His gestural and oral language expressed it: Ziyech ended up protesting to the fourth referee for the rough mark of Arambarri, among other cases of complaints. Bordalás says that the future has passed. That the game of pressure against pressure is the rabid present. So the two teams surrendered to that kind of sticky wear that turned the game into wasteland. A moor in which no one gave more than three consecutive passes without fail, without colliding, or without being knocked down.

A little reduced by the injury of Neres, a little by the market, and a little by the inexhaustible skirmish of the rival, Ajax resisted as he could. Last year I didn't need a center forward to gain ground because it was a team of enthusiasts who empathized in the association. Now Neres, injured, has been replaced by the Babel tank on the far left; and in the middle of the attack another tank plays, with double armor also, named Lassina Traoré. On the right, with no one to return a wall, Tadic's genius is bitter. In the middle, away from his old area of ​​influence to undertake administrative work, Van de Beek languishes with the bad company of Ziyech, who wants to be extreme and put him inside because De Jong is gone. If this unarmed Ajax went out into the doubtful camp, Getafe eventually discouraged him. The damage was not greater because Lisandro Martinez, the midfielder, did not lose sight of the local arrivals, becoming strong with Blind in a kind of hopeless resistance.

He suffered Ajax to start the plays and Ziyech was reckless in an inside pass that ended at the feet of Arambarri. The midfielder threw Maksimovic, who lost the duel with the goalkeeper. Half an hour after the game, it was a reminder to Ajax that he had no second of peace left. Ten minutes later, after a corner in favor, the Dutch team had to stop a backlash. Álvarez needed Arambarri in the center circle. Damián took it for Arambarri himself, who focused on Olivera. Neglected by Ziyech, Olivera focused on a touch and a touch scored Deyverson. Three executors, three touches, and goal.

The fans soon sang the apocryphal hymn of the season. “Bordalás, Bordalás! Bordalás, I love you! ”They shouted from the bottom. Ajax, meanwhile, was debated to redirect the tie in some way. Resigned to losing the forms that give security to the team, their goalkeeper, Varela, and the boss behind Daley Blind, searched for Babel and Traoré with long balls to get rid of the pressure. Bread eaten for the defensive distribution of Getafe, always ready in the toppings, more pitch, more agile in each dispute.

"We have fallen into all their traps," said Ten Hag, the Ajax coach, after the game, noting his players' long passes as a cause of loss of control. "We wanted to be opportunists and we paid it."

Next week the tie will be decided at the Johann Cruyff Arena. With advantage for this Getafe that does not stop.

Only 42 minutes of play

The ball was in play for 42 minutes and 36 seconds , the second lowest time in the entire history of the Europa League (format created in 2009).

31 faults The game was locked by constant interruptions. Getafe committed 18 fouls, while Ajax made 13.

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Source: elparis

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