Mike van der Hoorn is much criticized at Ajax. Sunday he was one of the stars against PSV. The central defender charged in Eindhoven with all the criticism
. After the injuries of Kenny Tete (torn ankle ligament) and Jairo Riedewald (ankle fracture) the purge was thin back at Ajax. Frank de Boer chose Joel Veltman as right, so there was formed a new central duo by Mike van der Hoorn and Nick Viergever. According to critics not worthy of Ajax duo, but De Boer had confidence in the former supporters of FC Utrecht and AZ. “Even with this duo, we can be champions.”
The performance of Van der Hoorn and Viergever layers in recent weeks under a magnifying glass. However, the pair did not go to below through there. In fact, they kept excellent standing. The replacements Riedewald and Tete were few points lost and stood back to Ajax as a house, in a match against NEC (2-2) after.
Sunday in the match against PSV, Ajax was in the first half under heavy pressure. But Van der Hoorn and Viergever kept themselves back against Luuk de Jong excellent standing. The PSV striker played one of his lesser races of the season. That was not only due to the fact that he still had a lot of tough away match against Atletico Madrid last Tuesday, but also by the strong play of the Ajax duo.
“They played pretty nice,” Frank de Boer said after the press conference. “There are always moments where they need to be a little smarter. Sometimes you saw Luuk de Jong certain the game. He does this by being positioned in a certain way. That they can do. But otherwise they have done well.”
That Ajax Sunday in Eindhoven but hard managed to get a foothold, it appeared from the statistics. For the rest of Amsterdam only had 37 per cent possession, the fewest in a game this season. After the early opening goal Arek Milik hunted PSV equalized. On a couple of chances after not the home side through. Especially not to knock the air Ajax appeared. Van der Hoorn has won no less than 91.7 percent of all its air duels.
“Van der Hoorn has always criticized,” said De Boer. “When we took him I knew Joel Veltman was at least as good. But I had two good defenders have for each position. Mike had then just unlucky to Joel the right then all went so fantastic. He was then also my preference, but that did not mean that Mike was not good then I also told Veltman:. “We’ll get him, but you’re so at least equal to him, you decide who it is. To join to the championship, you need a good bank and wide selection. “
After the mixed zone was crowded around Van der Hoorn.” I’m happy with my game and hope to continue this line, “said the defender, who said played his best game of the season. “I’m much come into the team and I have done my thing on the ball.”
Van der Hoorn with Viergever played with De Jong best striker in the Premier League from the competition not the first time he proved wrong the critics Van der Hoorn can justifiably say that he has become an Ajax defender worthy…
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