Maarten Stekelenburg travels with Ajax to Italy. The team from Amsterdam announces through the official channels that the 38-year-old goalkeeper will join trainer Erik ten Hag on Wednesday evening from 6.45 p.m. at the press conference in the run-up to the return of the quarter-final of the Europa League against AS Roma, which will be played a day later in the Stadio Olimpico is on the program.
The question is whether this also means that Stekelenburg is fit enough to start in the starting eleven against his old club. The experienced closing post had to miss the last matches against sc Heerenveen (1-2 win), AS Roma (1-2 defeat) and RKC Waalwijk (0-1 win) due to a knee injury. Kjell Scherpen took over his place under the bar. In the run-up to the game against RKC on Sunday, Ten Hag expressed the hope that Stekelenburg would be fit for the return in Rome in time.
“I did not take Maarten Stekelenburg (knee complaints), Brian Brobbey (ice bone) and Perr Schuurs (knee complaints) all three as a precaution. They will all train on Monday and Tuesday and I assume that I will have them on Thursday. It remains to be seen how they get through the training ”, he said The Telegraph from the mouth of Ten Hag. The trainer also stated that Stekelenburg was ‘on the right track’. Ajax has to brush away a 1-2 defeat in the first leg from 9 p.m. on Thursday evening to reach the semi-finals of the Europa League.
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