Devyne Rensch appears in the program Rondo from Ziggo Sport appointed as the culprit for the goal that Ajax had to take in the 2-1 cup final against Vitesse. The eighteen-year-old right back of the team from Amsterdam let Loïs Openda run and saw the Belgian striker score the equalizer on the instructions of Armando Broja. Marco van Basten states that Rensch ‘should not let himself be beeped like that’.
When seeing the images of Vitesse’s goal, Van Basten states that a mistake by Rensch is the basis for this. “Look, he’s one meter ahead. So he is just a spectator. That youth really has to be removed ”, says fellow analyst Jan van Halst. “As a defender you can’t let yourself be beep on level like that,” Van Basten continues. “The simplest thing you can do: just stay for your husband.”
Loïs Openda puts Vitesse on the same level: 1-1! The attacker immediately grabs the hamstring after his goal.
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“It is the story of Ajax: in principle you are the better match, they were against AS Roma as well. One dropout and you get one ”, Van Halst then points to the lost diptych of Ajax in the quarter finals of the Europa League against AS Roma: 1-2 defeat at home, 1-1 draw in Rome. “They are selected on what they can do with the ball,” Ruud Gullit seeks an explanation. “They are good at that, they can all play football very well. But I don’t think they train defenders at Ajax. ”
“You have to play more from the back at Ajax, because normally you are the better party. You just have to master these kinds of basic things as a defender ”, says Van Basten. Van Halst calls the situation ‘symptomatic for Ajax’, but at the same time states that due to his age, Rensch still ‘has to learn to feel that the house is on fire’. “A defender should be expected to just do this. The will to win … ”, says Van Basten. “You also learn that when you are fourteen or sixteen. It’s an ABC, it’s not a college. He walks a meter in front of him, right? He is the cause of a goal, that’s bad. ”
“My first final and prize with Ajax 1. It is hard to realize”, says Rensch himself afterwards in conversation with ESPN to know. “I didn’t think it would turn out like this, although of course I have always had faith in it and I have continued to work hard for it. And now I play my first final and I have won my first prize with Ajax 1. We will definitely go crazy tonight. ”