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Ajax will play at home in Midtjylland, Denmark on Tuesday night, but head coach Erik ten Hag can’t be too calm: In recent days, the club’s youth and adult team Ajax de Jong have found a total of 11 players infected with the coronavirus, so the Amsterdam club started with 17 players. To Copenhagen.
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| Tadics did not travel to Denmark (Photo: AFP) |
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According to the list published on the official Ajax website, only goalkeeper Kjell Scherpen traveled with the team and 16 outfield players. Not among travelers Dusan Tadics team captain, two other goalkeepers nominated for BL on List A, Martin Stekelenburg Y André Onana, also missing from list A Davy Klaassen, Zakaria Labjad, Mohammed KudusY Alex Mendez Y Giovanni.
As already noted at Dinamo Kiev, if a team is unable to nominate at least 13 A-list players for a match, including a goalkeeper, UEFA may decide to hold the match at a later date.
Ajax are not good at this either, because even though you are in Scherpen’s personality as a top goalkeeper, he doesn’t have 13 top players.
Coach Erik ten Hag told a press conference on Monday that some players could play in the Netherlands but not enter Denmark, which he found strange.
“They have no complaints or symptoms” The coach emphasized. As he said, he is still vaguely confident that on Tuesday some of them will be able to leave and finally start playing, but he doesn’t have high hopes for that.
Although according to the official calendar, the sixth round of the group stage will take place on December 9, according to current UEFA regulations, group matches that are lost must be played before January 28.
Only 17 players will travel to Denmark for the @Champions League game vs @fcmidtjylland#UCL #midaja
– AFC Ajax (@AFCAjax) November 2, 2020
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2020–2021
GROUP D, ROUND 3
Tuesday, November 3
21.00: Midtjylland (dán) –Ajax (holland)
21.00: Atalanta (Italian) –Liverpool (English)
| 1. Liverpool | 2 | 2 | – | – | 3-0 | +3 | 6 |
| 2. Atalanta | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 6-2 | +4 | 4 |
| 3. Ajax | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 2-3 | -1 | 1 |
| 4. Midtjylland | 2 | – | – | 2 | 0–6 | –6 | 0 |
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