Probable Ajax line-up:
Stekelenburg; van der Wiel, Oleguer, Vertonghen, Anita; de Zeeuw, Eyong Enoh, De Jong, Emanuelson; Pantelic, Suarez
Some good players. Stekelenburg, van der Wiel, de Zeeuw and Emanuelson play for the dutch NT. Suarez is world class.
Exactly the players we have to look out for most. Maybe next to Pantelic, but he hasn't been all that impressive if you ask me.
Stekelenburg used to be a pretty unreliable goalie, but he's been improving vastly, making fewer errors, he's really becoming quite the goalie imo.
Van der Wiel, well most of you know his story, as we've been interested in signing him before. Athletic and fast RB who likes to make runs forward, he's actually our starting RB for the NT aswell now.
De Zeeuw, an often underrated player. He was great when he was at AZ Alkmaar and he single handidly made Ajax' midfield alot better. A good passer, who is usually included in our NT but has the problem of heavy competition for his midfield position. I hope Melo / Momo can cancel him out of the game though, which would result in taking quite a bit of 'football' out of their midfield.
Emanuelson, he's the kind of player who as far as I know started out as a LB but got moved up field a bit and became a midfielder. Makes great runs forward, he's like Ajax' PDC but more skilled.
You all know about Suarez, he's the main and biggest threat in this Ajax team, no doubt about it.
Pretty fast players in that team though. Apart from the guys upfront you have Emanuelson and Van der Wiel storming down the flanks aswell. I fear for our 3 man defense.
When you look at pure quality in the squads, there really isn't any reason we should lose this game though.