Tom Rofekamp
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Kenneth Perez will arrive on Sunday with a striking stance This was the Weekend. The analyst would put Steven Berghuis and Steven Bergwijn, two of the stars at Ajax, next to the team once they are fit again. Perez advises to focus on stability, now that FC Utrecht was put aside quite easily. “You have now entered a journey of reliability.”
Without Berghuis and Bergwijn, Ajax won 2-0 against the Domstedelingen on Sunday. The defensive stability in particular stood out. The Amsterdam team finally kept a clean sheet again, which last happened on November 25 against Vitesse (5-0). Perez would therefore stick to the same eleven.
“Don't draft,” the Dane is clear about Berghuis and Bergwijn. “You have now entered a path of reliability. Hlynsson and Taylor also want to work hard for the team. And I know: it is not what you want to see – you want to see players with velvet technique and so on. But there is the time not ripe for it.”
“They really had no chance against AZ and that was because they had too many 'footballers',” Perez thinks. He would therefore stick to Sunday's plan against Aston Villa. “You can then use those two boys (Berghuis and Bergwijn, ed.) to break things open. It will not be easy to keep them on the bench, but you are assigned to get results.”
Although Bergwijn still seems to need some time, Berghuis is expected to meet the English on Thursday. Mario Been, who is also present in the studio, gives no chance that the left foot will settle for a place in the dug-out.
“That doesn't seem to be an option to me, nor is it logical. Berghuis is one of your better players and they haven't or hardly created anything today (Sunday, ed.).”
“And they have no guarantee that they will play as well again next week. Berghuis has shown that he is of inestimable value to Ajax,” Been concludes.
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