Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 9:48 AM• Last update: 10:13

Bayer Leverkusen coach Peter Bosz expects that Ajax will qualify for the quarter-finals of the Europa League without too much trouble at the expense of the Young Boys. Bosz and his team were eliminated by the Swiss top club last month. According to the ex-trainer of the team from Amsterdam, Young Boys is especially strong as a team, but in his eyes Ajax will be the parent.

“Run, fly, very direct play. Ajax plays much better, but you shouldn’t find out against them ”, Bosz tells it in conversation Algemeen Dagblad. Leverkusen went down 4-3 last month to visit the champion of Switzerland. In the return, the Bundesliga club lost 0-2. “There is not one individual player that Ajax would want to have now”, Bosz continues, who thinks Young Boys is a ‘difficult to play’ team. “And neither do we at Bayer Leverkusen. But it is a good team. ”

Leverkusen started the double encounter with Young Boys as a favorite, but was painfully eliminated. “The problem was that we were behind the scenes from the first moment,” says Bosz. “Young Boys typically brings the game from the Red Bull school. With a lot of energy and pressure.” According to the trainer, Young Boys mainly uses the long ball. “Before we knew it, we were 2-0 behind in the first leg on artificial grass. And 3-0 at half time. We came back to 3-3 and in the return they got hardly any chances, but they countered perfectly. Their effectiveness against us was twice insanely high. “

Bosz calls the meeting between Ajax and Young Boys ‘a clash of styles’. “The key question becomes: are we going to see Ajax football or a Young Boys game? Ajax definitely has the qualities to play football under their pressure. To be honest, I expect Ajax to get through easily in two matches. But Hendrie (Krüzen, assistant to Bosz, ed.) Thinks that Ajax will win, but that it will be much more difficult. ” The match between Ajax and Young Boys in the Johan Cruijff ArenA starts on Thursday evening at 6.55 pm. The return follows a week later in Bern at 9 p.m.