Heerenveen hammer sad Ajax

Sunday 05 October 2008

SC Heerenveen have again given Ajax a serious battering.

In a very rainy Abe Lenstra Stadion Ajax were fortunate to only concede five.

Especially in the first half the Friesians were all mighty.

Okay, Ajax had more possession, but Heerenveen had all the chances.

The hosts were much more aggressive and that paid off within 10 minutes.

In the fourth minute Ajax defender Silva tried to beat Gerald Sibon to a lose ball only to slide the ball over his own goal line.

Ajax got no chance to recover from that early blow because in the 8th minute Roy Beerens wonderfully finished a solo run to make it 2-0.

Young stand-in goal keeper Kenneth Vermeer then saved his team numerous times to keep Ajax' hope on some sort of a result alive, but only five minutes into the second half the defensive line in front of him were again unable to stop the unchained Friesians.

Sibon was allowed to volley home a low cross from the left to decide the game and twelve minutes later Danijel Pranjic upped the score from the penalty spot.

Ajax briefly seemed to put themselves back in the match when first Huntelaar scored from a set piece and Suarez converted a penalty 1 minute later.

But the two goals were enough to wake Heerenveen up again and with the third penalty of the game Pranjic put the final result on the scoreboard: 5-2.

That he needed the rebound for that after Vermeer had stopped his spot kick made no difference at all.