Maurice Steijn is not impressed by Anton Gaaei. The Ajax coach took the Dane off after half an hour in De Klassieker. The right back seems to have to take a moment to pause.
At the press conference after the second part of the losing battle with arch-rival Feyenoord, Steijn discussed the puzzle on the wings of his rearguard. If it were up to him, it wouldn’t have fallen open. ‘We are now ignoring the fact that Devyne Rensch was not armpit fresh during the week with FC Twente, Olympique Marseille and Feyenoord.’
“I couldn’t use him for two games,” Steijn explained his choice for Gaaei. However, he fell through the ice, after which Steijn replaced him after half an hour. ‘That’s why Gaaei came in, but he just didn’t make a good turn. We’ve all seen that.’
It seems that Steijn has made his choice on the right side. The troubled trainer, who could only collect five points in five games, was clear about the competitive struggle. ‘It is up to Rensch to get back into his familiar position. He’s number one. Only now he wasn’t available.’
Puzzle on the left still open
“We continue to look on the left, that is clear,” Steijn also said about the position of left back. In the match against Feyenoord he used Borna Sosa, Anass Salah-Eddine and Gáston Ávila. ‘I don’t know if that’s a record. When it became 0-4, we switched gears and brought in a fourth man at the back.’
By bringing an extra defender with Ávila, Steijn wanted to prevent a bigger outcome. ‘We realized it wasn’t going to work. As a result, we decided to quickly bring in a defender to limit the damage. Well, we’re still looking. Ávila interprets it differently than Sosa. And Sosa is different from Salah-Eddine.’
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2023-09-28 05:35:39
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