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In the Europa League we have now reached the quarterfinals. Ajax takes it in the first leg in Amsterdam against Schalke 04. Neither team has had much success in recent years in European football. There will be on both sides hungry for more than a quarter-final place.
Ajax :
Ajax Amsterdam is the current quarterfinals, the first time in fourteen years. Back then was, with Ronald Koeman on the couch, reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League, which lost against AC Milan. In recent years stranded campaigns of the Dutch powerhouse usually in the group stage of the CL. The times wintered Ajax in the Europa League, it was mostly eliminated by teams that on paper were not much stronger than the Amsterdammers.
This year, the red-whites, the tournament witnessed the EL from the group stage. Ajax in the group delivered a strong series of races, which resulted in the first place. In the two knockout rounds were subsequently dealt with Legia Warsaw and FC Copenhagen. No bad teams, but Schalke beats the team of coach Peter Bosz be an opponent of a different caliber.
Ajax is the middle of a busy period of 21 days containing seven games. The first three of these winning games were sealed in any case by the Amsterdam. However, this was largely the same team. Bosz, unlike, for example, many German coaches, not in favor of a rotation system. The match against Schalke he will not seize to start here, though he has, especially in the attack, or to choose a few things.
Probable lineup Ajax
Onana – Veltman, Sanchez, Viergever, Sink Counts – Schöne – Klaassen, Ziyech – Traoré, Dolberg, Younes
Schalke :
Twenty years after winning the UEFA Cup Schalke 04 again seriously in the race for a European prize. Like Ajax Schalke 04 had little success in recent years in European tournaments. This year, it is striking that in the Bundesliga totally running for Die Königsblauen, but that will be performed well in Europe. The group stage started very well for Schalke. The first five games all ended in victory, and only on the final day was lost there, in a match that mattered no more S04 joined RB Salzburg slicing (2-0). After the winter counted the blue-whites out with PAOK Saloniki (0-3, 1-1), after which in the second round was the all-German showdown with Borussia MG on the program. Here, the team of coach Markus Weinzierl was unfortunate. Based on the uitgoals kwarfinale was removed (1-1, 2-2).
Now Schalke is doing well again in Europe the players of the national team from 1997 are fully allowed to speak. Similarly Youri Mulder, who played for both Ajax (short) and Schalke (nine years). “In Germany one may think Schalke youth team plays against type, but out of nowhere you can get a goal against,” warned Mulder. “If you underestimate them, you can, as we say in the Netherlands, coming home from a rude awakening.”
The players now gazed ahead to the next match of Schalke. “When you get this far, you want to reach the final and win the prize,” as Max Meyer was ambitious. “But so far it is not there yet. We did some good matches in the Europa League, even when it was not in the Bund League. That should give everyone confidence. ” Weinzierl leave his team in recent games to play with four defenders, unlike the previous 5-3-2 system. This is probably also in Amsterdam so. There are some changes to the starting line, when compared with the competition played S04 last weekend against VfL Wolfsburg (4-1 win). The drawing below is far from certain.
Probable arrangement Schalke 04
Fährmann – Kehrer, Höwedes, Nastasić, Kolasinac – Geis, Bentaleb – Caligiuri, Goretzka, Choupo-Moting – Burgstaller
Ajax vs Schalke head to head
10.01.15 CF Schalke Ajax 0 : 2