Alfred Schreuder chooses Mohammed Kudus in the striker on Wednesday evening and Davy Klaassen at 10 at Ajax. As a result, Brian Brobbey starts on the bench during the Eredivisie match with Vitesse. For the cameras of ESPN the trainer of the team from Amsterdam comes with an explanation for the change in the attacking part of his axis.
Kenneth Perez, who will be present as an analyst in the Johan Cruijff Arena on Wednesday, wonders whether the combination with Kudus behind Brobbey was not good enough during the lost match against PSV (1-2). Schreuder then gives an honest answer to that question, although he protects his pupils somewhat. “We weren’t completely happy with that couple, but that also had to do with the supply being bad.”
Schreuder then discusses what he wanted to achieve with the couple Kudus and Brobbey. “I had hoped for more interaction and dynamics. They both have a lot of power and speed, but we were fighting too much up there. We weren’t good enough playing football, so we didn’t get into the right spaces. I thought Kudus played well in the first half, but we also know that he can play with his speed from the striker.”
The Ajax coach also talks about Brobbey’s fitness. “We also look at where he comes from. He played 90 minutes on Sunday and we are now playing three games in six days. That is just difficult for him to play sixty or seventy minutes today.” The duel in the Johan Cruijff ArenA starts at 8 p.m. and can be seen live on ESPN 2.
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