Perez about weakling at Ajax: ‘0 tackles, 0 interceptions! That’s what he stands for’
Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 8:34 PM
Kenneth Perez thinks that Kenneth Taylor played ‘a very poor match’ against AZ (1-2 loss). Taylor again started controlling midfield at Ajax in a role alongside Silvano Vos, but gave his young teammate little defensive support. “Taylor has made zero tackles and zero interceptions! Those are the numbers. And that’s what he stands for…” Perez said in ESPN’s This Was The Weekend.
Karim El Ahmadi, who is also present, paid extra attention to Taylor as a former midfielder. “I compared Ajax’s midfield with that of AZ, and you see that Taylor was actually only busy following his opponent Sven Mijnans.”
According to El Ahmadi, there was hardly any coordination between Taylor and Vos. “As two controlling midfielders you have to work together,” said the former Feyenoord player. “That was not the case at all at Ajax. Taylor only thought about his own man, but you can also help Vos. That boy ended up on an island all the time.”
El Ahmadi sees that Ajax is always making the field very large. “Ajax is going through a very difficult period. I have also experienced that as a player and it is really not easy. But when things get difficult, you have to stay close to each other. Taylor’s role is especially important in this. He has to be closer Playing fox.”
According to Perez, all of Taylor’s efforts were in vain. “Then as a midfielder you get the feeling: I’m running into trouble, it doesn’t yield anything at all. Something isn’t right. But who at Ajax is going to say anything about it? Who will take the lead?”
Ajax lacks routines. “Taylor is a midfielder who has to play box-to-box, but he just didn’t run with his man. Either he didn’t have the power, or he just doesn’t see it.”
“Taylor has made zero tackles and zero interceptions!” says Perez. “He also gained possession of the ball zero times in the opponent’s penalty area. It was a very poor game from him.”
2023-10-08 18:37:31
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