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‘If there is no improvement quickly, heads will roll at Ajax’
Valentijn Driessen is harsh in his judgment after the shocking defeat of Ajax in the Champions League. The football chief of De Telegraaf believes that it is no longer a crisis with a small ‘c’, but that heads should roll if the current situation does not change quickly. For Ajax, the 1-6 defeat against Napoli was the biggest loss since 1964. Never before had the Amsterdam team encountered such a big problem in a European context.
Read here what Driessen said about the current situation at Ajax.
‘Dutch’ Leverkusen officially chooses a big name as a new trainer
Xabi Alonso succeeds Gerardo Seoane as trainer at Bayer Leverkusen. The German club has announced this. The forty-year-old Spaniard has been working on his coaching career for some time and has been at the helm of Real Sociedad B and the youth of Real Madrid. Now Alonso faces his first big job abroad.
Read more about the appointment of Xabi Alonso and the lightning resignation of his predecessor here.
Haaland never stops and shoots City to victory again
Erling Haaland showed his best side again on Wednesday evening. The striker, who made a hat-trick against Manchester United (6-3 win) last Sunday, was good for two goals in the Champions League match against FC Copenhagen. The game in England ended in 5-0. In Spain, Borussia Dortmund shot Sevilla coach Julen Lopetegui even deeper into trouble. The Germans won 1-4.
Read the report of the matches of Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund here.
Chelsea grabs the last straw and makes mincemeat of sad Milan
Chelsea are once again fully involved in the battle for a place in the last sixteen of the Champions League. After the London formation took a point from the first two games, AC Milan was sent from the cupboard to the wall on Wednesday evening: 3-0. The tension in the group is therefore completely back, because all teams are now within two points. RB Salzburg is the leader.
Check out how Chelsea made the group exciting again..
Van Nistelrooij about ‘incident’ at PSV: ‘We have evaluated hard and fair’
There has been a hard and fair evaluation at PSV after the 3-0 defeat at SC Cambuur last Saturday. That is what trainer Ruud van Nistelrooij told at the press conference in the run-up to the Europa League match with FC Zurich on Thursday evening. According to him, the major defeat suffered in Leeuwarden was an incident.
Read here what else Van Nistelrooij had to say at the press moment.