Valentijn Driessen is in the Kickoffpodcast from The Telegraph critical of Jay Gorter’s performance against Olympique Marseille (3-3). The football chief saw the Ajax goalkeeper make a number of nice saves, but also do a few crazy things. Driessen does not yet know whether Gorter is the ideal first choice under the bar for trainer Maurice Steijn.
“What do you think of Gorter?” asks Mike Verweij in the podcast of the national newspaper. “I have to be honest: he made a number of good saves. But the fact that the defense is absolutely not in a good position is also the goalkeeper’s responsibility. Of course I know that Gorter cannot coach in Croatian (after Josip Sutalo and Borna Sosa). , ed.), but in English. I still have the strong feeling, he hits too much to the middle instead of to the side, that he is happy with that save. That he is very busy with himself and not with everything that happens around him.”
Verweij makes a less harsh judgment about Gorter. “He is a young boy,” the club watcher refers to the fact that the Ajax player is only 23 years old. “It’s not without reason that they say that goalkeepers get better as they get older.” Driessen then shifts the focus back to the Europa League clash with Marseille. “It was striking that he got injured and then the German (Diant Ramaj, ed.) had to warm up. And not Remko Pasveer.”
“Maybe Maurice Steijn did it for the audience in the stadium. Like: this is the man worth 10 million euros who will never play anyway. He can walk around and show himself, because Gorter will continue anyway,” says Verweij. for an explanation for Ramaj’s warm-up. Gorter did not have to be substituted against the French, who took a point from the Johan Cruijff ArenA, partly thanks to a double by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.