René van der Gijp was quite shocked by David Neres during the second meeting of Europe with AS Roma in the quarter finals of the Europa League on Thursday evening. The analyst notes that the Brazilian winger has been adding nothing or hardly any more to Ajax’s attacking game for some time now. Van der Gijp is also not very enthusiastic about the performance of fellow attacker and fellow countryman Antony.
“You actually get a little pity with those Neres, don’t you”, Van der Gijp opens on Friday evening Veronica Inside. “So it really doesn’t hit a ball and doesn’t even pass a lamppost. And the other one (Antony, ed.), Yes, that’s as if it has Duracell batteries. It makes a lot of movements, but nothing happens. And then he puts it back on the right back. ” Johan Derksen also finds Antony’s disappointing performances in recent times striking. “In the beginning he sometimes had flashy actions, because you have a nasty afternoon when you stand against him in man covering. But the two of them had the space and neither did anything.”
“But you know what it is Johan and I really mean it: I don’t know if he (Antony, ed.) Is very fast”, Van der Gijp then takes over the conversation. “It is always with him with the ball, so it is quite predictable. Look, you can also just go deep without the ball. Then the back thinks: Hey, what are we going to get? Then you also pull the field apart. “In that respect, Derksen immediately takes the match of Ajax on Thursday evening as an example:” They gave such a ball once and there was immediately a goal (from Brian Brobbey, ed. .) “Van der Gijp would like Antony to look more deeply, just like Brobbey often does in Ajax’s attacking line.
“It is always the ball at his foot and then just look. And then threaten, threaten, threaten and then not much happens”, Van der Gijp analyzes Antony’s way of playing on the right flank at Ajax. Finally, Derksen protects the flank player somewhat. “With Italians it is always like this: When you have passed your back, they always have back cover. Then you run into the next one, you know. So there is no getting through the way he plays.”