http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/NEC-c40018 Nijmegen – Eredivisie news
Ajax Amsterdam head coach, Frank de Boer, has expressed contentment following his side’s impressive 3-0 victory over NEC Nijmegen. Duel between the two sides took place at McDOS Goffertstadion on Sunday, November 27.
NEC started the match in a bright manner and controlled the opening 20 minutes. The first scoring opportunity for NEC came when John Goossens’ cross from the left found Nick van der Velden in the box with only http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Kenneth-Vermeer-c20618 to beat. However, his effort
was impressively denied by Vermeer.
Moments later, Nathaniel Will received a Abdeslam Ibrahim pass at the edge of the box, but the 22-year-old stopper’s effort went inches wide of the target.
The Amsterdammers finally responded in the 18th minute, when Theo Janssen’s free-kick was headed wide of the target by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ruben-Ligeon-c31839 and Nicolas Lodeiro also failed to capitalise on their scoring opportunities.
The opening half concluded with both sides missing opportunities to break the deadlock. However, things went in the Dutch Champions' favour right from the start of the second-half. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Miralem-Sulejmani-c25985 broke the deadlock in the 53rd minute with a
neat finish and doubled the lead in the 78th minute with another simple finish.
Eight minutes before the full time whistle, Davy Klaassen hit the bottom corner to seal the game 3-0 in favour of the Amsterdam giants.
After the match, De Boer calmly admitted that his side staged an impressive show in the second-half and secured three vital points by the end of 90 minutes.
“It’s nice to see a clean-sheet. We have been waiting for a long time to win in such manner. The first-half was not very pleasing, but the boys did a great http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 to finish off NEC in style after the break”, De Boer said while talking to the media.
The Dutch mentor then went on to admit that his side was not troubled at all after the half-time interval.
“In the second-half, we were never really troubled. Luckily, we scored twice in quick succession and then the third finished off the game in style”, De Boer concluded.
Ajax climbed up the league standings with the latest win, now occupying the fourth spot. They trail the league leaders, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/AZ-c38571 Alkmaar, by 10 points while NEC remained unmoved at 15th spot in the league table.
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