The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 player expressed his delight with the 5-0 win over Heerenveen and urged his side to bag maximum points in the upcoming encounters to retain the Eredivisie title.
Ajax Amsterdam head coach, Frank de Boer, has urged his side to put in their hundred per cent in the upcoming encounter and not to underestimate the relegation threatened De Graafschap. The two sides will meet at Amsterdam Arena on Sunday, April 15.
The reigning Eredivisie champions are currently sitting comfortably at the summit of the table, three points ahead of the second placed http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/AZ-c38571 Alkmaar. With 15 points left to play for before the end of the 2011/12 season, the Amsterdam giants have a good chance
of defending the title.
De Boer knows the importance of the upcoming encounters and has urged his side to put in their best performance and bag maximum points.
“We need to get maximum points in the next matches. We’ll focus on the match against De Graafschap. They are fighting for their last chance, so we can’t underestimate them”, the Dutch mentor was quoted as saying to the club’s official website.
The Amsterdammers recorded an impressive 5-0 win over Heerenveen at Abe Lenstra Stadion on April 11, and the former Barcelona player has admitted that his side staged a scintillating show to claim all three points in style.
“You don’t expect to have such an easy time. The first three minutes told the story of the match: we here helped early by the red card and penalty kick. After that, we didn’t give Heerenveen the idea that they could get anything. We put on the pressure,
kept possession and scored at the right times. In the second half, we could have scored more, but we wasted strength”, De Boer concluded.
Ajax started proceedings brightly away from home and took the lead early in the match. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Theo-Janssen-c34871 coolly converted the resulting spot kick.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ismail-Aissati-c17108 doubled his side’s advantage in the 19th minute and De Jong made it 3-0 six minutes later. The midfielder-c*m-forward doubled his tally in the stoppage time of the opening half and completed his hat-trick in the 63rd
minute to secure an impressive 5-0 win.
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