Wim Kieft thought Lisandro Martínez and Sébastien Haller looked vulnerable in the final of the TOTO KNVB Cup against Vitesse (2-1) won by Ajax. The analyst of Veronica Inside finds Martínez vulnerable with space in his back, while Haller does not function well in his eyes when he is far from the opponent’s goal.
“Vitesse did well in the beginning by looking for depth every time”, Kieft starts his analysis of the match. At the goal that Vitesse made, Martínez was beaten on the sidelines by Armando Broja. Kieft says about that moment: “How vulnerable Martinez is, when he gets into that position at Ajax, because those backs are always gone. I see him doing this often.” René van der Gijp is surprised about this and asks: “Do you see him doing that more often? He just times wrong now, right? That can happen, right? He thinks he can come for it, but he can’t.” Kieft only responds by saying: “I don’t think he is very strong defensively in that place.”
Haller was also disappointing according to Kieft. “The moment he gets ‘in the ball’, he is very vulnerable with that big body,” says the former striker. “Then you are in the loop, you know. But he was played very well once, when he was on the penalty spot and passed it on to Davy Klaassen. He did very well. So you should actually use it at the moment. he is standing or playing at the sixteen, then he has to keep that big body in it. But walking is really very difficult for him. “
Kieft names Edson Álvarez, who was tasked with eliminating Vitesse player Oussama Tannane, as one of the stars. “I’m not an Álvarez fan, but now he played from Tannane: he was really on top of it every time, he didn’t let that Tannane play football, whether he suffered from Ramadan or not, but he didn’t get a chance. The problem is. Of course, but that has also been said a thousand times, that with such a midfield with him, Davy Klaassen and Ryan Gravenberch, there is little football. Antony also thought Kieft was ‘very good’. “It was also less recently, but with him you can still see what is in it, and I haven’t seen that with David Neres for a long time.”