Young Ajax headed for a victory against FC Volendam on Tuesday evening. In the crazy final phase, however, things went completely wrong for the reserves team from Amsterdam, with hits from the home team in the 95th and 96th minutes. After the spectacle in the Kitchen Champion Division, there was room for all kinds of emotions, from pure joy to disbelief and bewilderment.
“This doesn’t happen very often”, said Volendam coach Wim Jonk after the insane comeback opposite ESPN. “But this quickly turns you gray, I know that. Everything is possible in football, you just have to fight until the last second, and the boys have now been rewarded for that,” said the winning trainer, who played the duel with Young Ajax. compares with a historic European final. “I can still remember a Champions League final, with Manchester United against Bayern Munich (in 1999, when Manchester United turned a 0-1 deficit into a 2-1 lead in injury time, ed.); That was also bizarre. came close to it. We may not win a Champions League with it, but that is how it feels. “
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For Mitchell van der Gaag, the coach of Jong Ajax, the grapes were sour on Tuesday evening in Volendam. “It is too easy to classify this as learning moments”, the disappointed trainer said in a response to RTV North Holland. “If we had been here and it would have been a draw, I would have been very disappointed. You should consider if you also lose him. I understand that there was disappointment after the 2-2, but if you give away the 3-2 like that,” it stops “, says Van der Gaag, who occupies twelfth place with his team in the Kitchen Champion Division.
For Ajax, hits from Naci Ünüvar and Kian Fitz-Jim made it easy against FC Volendam. Zakaria El Azzouzi’s connection goal in minute 85, however, was the start of an incredible final phase. Samuele Mulattieri drew the equalizer well into injury time and while his goal was being repeated on television, El Azzouzi secured the home team’s winning goal. FC Volendam currently occupies eighth place, with 40 points from 24 matches.
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