Must Ajax Start Tuesday against Atalanta Bergamo in the Champions League with Lassina Traoré in the striker? The opinions at Studio Voetbal differ about this. Traoré is bursting with confidence after his five goals against VVV-Venlo.
“He will probably do something with Tadic again and maybe Traoré will go out, but why not leave that one? I would, because who should you put aside?”, Says Theo Janssen.
Pierre van Hooijdonk agrees. “I have always been a fan of Traoré and I think he was fired a little too early. He now just shoots five. If you just leave him alone he will be the top scorer in the Eredivisie.”
Leonne Stentler, who played for ADO Den Haag and Ajax in her career, would not start with Traoré against Atalanta. “I would use the Martínez variant, if I can call it that”, she refers to the line-up of Ajax against Liverpool last Wednesday, in which Lisandro Martínez was in the back and Daley Blind was put in midfield.
“They can do almost the same as against Liverpool. They don’t have Kudus, but they do have Antony. You can put him on the side. I don’t think Traoré is ready for this yet. In the first moments against VVV he had two incredible misses. In a Champions League match, everything has to hit immediately. It is the ultimate substitution, but I wouldn’t start with it. “
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