Ajax will play its first match next Sunday after the interland break and they will particularly look forward to the formation in which Erik ten Hag sends his men into the field against sc Heerenveen. The team from Amsterdam played a number of difficult games before the interruption, with the defeat against FC Groningen as the low point. There is now also murmuring among the supporters and Valentijn Driessen thinks that the trainer is now really going to change something.

“So far, of course, he held on to Dusan Tadic on the left and then Zakaria Labyad in the striker. Eventually he will have to switch sometime, because it just doesn’t work. I think the match against Heerenveen is ideal for that and Ten Hag will undoubtedly be able to come up with a nice story for that, but I do know that there is a lot of pressure within Ajax to change something ”, says the football chief. from The Telegraph on the website of his newspaper.

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“They also see that it is not working at all at the moment and if you see the last series, then he was a bit lucky.” Driessen points to the stoppage of the season due to the corona crisis, after which Ajax was ultimately awarded first place and the corresponding ticket for the group stage of the Champions League. In the weeks before the season was discontinued, Ajax was still eliminated from the Europa League and the TOTO KNVB Cup: “But that overall picture is gone because of the corona crisis, because of the gap that has arisen there. Now you see again… They are just busy, they lose to FC Groningen and you also see the way in which… He now has to deliver with a number of big matches ahead of him.

Ten Hag noted earlier this week that Ajax has been looking for a new striker in the past transfer period. This was denied at an earlier stage, but Driessen indicates that his newspaper has been reporting on this for some time: “It shows that we have actually always been on the right track. We have always said that Ajax was seriously interested in Luis Suárez, which turned out to be impossible because of the salary requirements. And that Eran Zahavi, who has now gone to PSV, has indeed also been approached by Ajax to come to Amsterdam. Then you will be laughed at and then that will be denied, but afterwards all that turns out to have been true. Zahavi himself of course also said of: ‘When Ten Hag and I look each other in the eye, we know who is telling the truth.’ ”