Lassina Traoré scored five times against VVV-Venlo (0-13) and was accurate once in the Champions League against Atalanta (2-2) last Tuesday. The nineteen-year-old striker also ensured that the team from Amsterdam received a penalty kick in Bergamo. Youri Mulder thinks that Erik ten Hag can no longer ignore the striker and believes that he should get the chance again on Saturday evening against Fortuna Sittard (8 p.m.). “That boy deserves to stand still.”

Last month, Traoré was still a striker for Jong Ajax, while he now impresses in the point of the attack in the main force. It was expected that Ten Hag would choose Dusan Tadic in the striker against Atalanta, but the trainer still chose Traoré. He wanted to reward him for his good game against VVV. “He didn’t start very well, but he played more and more creditably. I thought that Traoré did his job well as a point of contact ”, Mulder responds Algemeen Dagblad.

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Afterwards, Ten Hag was satisfied with the game of Traoré, who according to him ‘played like a guy’. Mulder saw Traoré already excel at VVV and thinks he has a lot of potential. “He is very strong. Traoré does not have the sophistication of predecessors such as Kluivert or Van Basten. But you know what it is: in Germany at Schalke it was all about scoring goals. If I scored, I played. There is purely looked at goals. “

As far as Mulder is concerned, Traoré will remain as Ajax striker for the time being. “If a striker scores, you shouldn’t take him out. Just look at the numbers, ”said the former footballer. “Tadic is not in great shape, neither was Labyad. With Traoré, Ten Hag now has a good option. He has proven himself as a point of contact. He holds the ball easily. I do think he can still take steps in this, with good assumptions in space. The only danger is that it will become unwieldy. But he’s only nineteen, isn’t he? Just leave it there for a while. “