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Football.ua together with project partner Carlsberg summarize the match of the fifth round of the Champions League group stage between Liverpool and Ajax.
In the fifth round of the Champions League group stage, Liverpool hosted Ajax Amsterdam. Immediately after the kickoff, the hosts took the ball under their control, intending to score an early goal. But the first sharpness came right into his goal: Skhurs shot over the crossbar after a corner kick. And a minute later, Jones nearly opened the scoring: The bar took the ball after Curtis hit the ball. After that, Liverpool took the ball for a long time and carried out attack after attack. However, they failed to open up the opponent’s defense that was working well.
After a while, “Ayaxids” took the initiative, taking the game out of its half of the field. In one of the episodes, Anthony moved to the center and aimed for the far corner, but he shot very imprecisely. A few minutes later, free Klaassen could have scored from inside the goalkeeper’s area after Tadic’s serve, but Davy missed the ball. Eric ten Hag’s charges continued to control the ball, but over time, his pressure on someone else’s penalty area dwindled to nothing. Then the “red” took the initiative again and tried to create at least one dangerous moment, but to no avail.
Ajax spent much of the time without the ball, but it was the guests who were quite close to the goal scored. Mazraoui unexpectedly fired on goal from outside the area, and Kelleher not without difficulty moved the ball to the corner. A few minutes later, the hosts landed a dangerous free kick, which gave hope to the rival’s goal. But Henderson didn’t even manage to throw the ball over the wall with a direct hit. Until the end of the first half of the match, Jurgen Klopp’s defenders practically did not yield the ball to the rival, attacking with great forces. They made several dangerous approaches to the possession of Onan, but the matter did not reach the final blow to the door. Before leaving for the break, the account was never opened.
After the restart of the game, the guests took the ball under their control and passed to the middle of the field of others. However, they did not pressure someone else’s penalty area. But Lersisides had a great chance to score with N. Williams’ effort, but the defender couldn’t hit the ball well. Then the ten Haga counts continued to attack, intending to restore equality on the scoreboard. At the end of one of the attacks, they came very close to this, but the implementation failed. Neres was forced to score after Kelleher took Mazraoui’s shot out, but David hit the post.
A minute later, the “Ayaxids” paid it with a conceded goal. Onana made a serious mistake, believing that the ball would go out of bounds after N. Williams’ serve, but behind the goalkeeper was Jones, who sent the ball into the empty net – 1: 0. A few minutes later, Salah could have doubled the home team’s lead on the scoreboard after a mistake by Schurs, but the Egyptian failed to push the ball to Onan. Almost immediately after that, Ajax moved back to someone else’s midfield. But the guests were unable to put any pressure on the Kelleher property. The goalkeeper of the ‘red’ was left without serious work.
After a while, Klopp’s pupils took the initiative again. They carried out several significant attacks, but failed to get at least one of them to the final shot on goal. But closer to the end of the match, Liverpool had two killer scoring chances at once, but they didn’t use both. First, Onana served the ball after Firmino hit the bottom, and then Salah missed the goal from close range.
A few minutes after that, the hosts were almost punished for a poor implementation. Spas Kelleher, who moved the ball to the corner after hitting Huntelaar almost point-blank range. In the remaining minutes, the Amsterdammers desperately tried to escape, but the hosts played competently to keep the score, which they ultimately succeeded. This result allowed Klopp’s team to become unreachable for its competitors and to issue an early ticket to the playoffs. The last round will be just a formality for the “Reds”.
In the sixth round, Liverpool will visit Midtjylland and Ajax will host Atalanta.
Liverpool – Ajax 1: 0
Objective: Jones, 58
Liverpool: Kelleher – N. Williams, Fabinho, Matip, Robertson – Jones, Henderson, Wijnaldum – Jota (Firmino, 68), Salah (R. Williams, 90), Manet
Ajax: Onana – Mazraui (Huntelaar, 86), Schurz, Blind (Martinez, 86), Taliafico – Alvarez (Labiad, 69), Klaassen, Gravenberg – Anthony, Tadic, Neres (Traore, 81)
Warnings: Vejnaldum, Henderson, Mane – Shurs, Blind
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