There was much ado about ADO this week! The player munity leading to the disposal of coach Raymond Atteveld suddenly seemed justified as 16th placed ADO turned on one of it’s best performances ever against arch rivals Ajax.
Even Atteveld, watching from the comfort of a private box, seemed disappointed as the ’all new’ ADO was beaten deep in extra time by a stunning Toby Alderweireld strike from outside the box.
The classic encounter took almost 100-minutes to decide as high drama and injury forced referee Jan Wegeeref to continually add ‘time on’. The turning point of the match came in the 75th minute when ADO reserve keeper Barry Ditewig, on for injured starter Robert Zwinkels in the 64th minute, was red carded for striking out at Demy de Zeeuw.
Until that moment ADO could have quite easily scored it’s first home win over Ajax since October 1980 with the best chances falling to Karim Soltani and Tim Derijck. But when veteran midfielder Ricky van den Burgh pulled on the gloves and stood between the posts it was party time for the Ajax strike force.
“What a huge relief, in the dressing room at half time we were yelling ‘come on we want this so bad and it’s not going our way’, but we turned up the pressure and after the dismissal we finally got one.” Said Toby Alderweireld after the game.
Despite the 0-1 loss, the previously hapless ADO showed it can avoid the drop under the leadership of interim coach Maurice Steijn.
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