Huntelaar back on track

Thursday 30 October 2008

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has found the way to the net again.

The center forward liberated both himself and his team with two great goals last night against Heracles (1-3).

It was the first away win for Ajax this season and thus the first for coach Marco van Basten in his career as Eredivisie coach.

Ajax only needed some fifteen minutes to get the season's first.

Huntelaar scored his goals between the 77th and the 82nd minute and by doing so drove out the black clouds that had been hanging over the Ajax players up until that moment.

Heracles had been Ajax' equals in the first 75 minutes and fully deserved to be at 1-1.

Before the break the hosts had even been the better team despite Suarez' early goal that gave Ajax the lead.

After that Heracles took the game to Ajax and gave the Amsterdammers a lot of work to do.

It was no surprise that they equalized after half an hour and that they created some good chances to take the lead before half-time.

In the second half Van Basten put on Gabri for the disappointing Leonardo.

It didn't mean Ajax started playing much better, but they were able to neutralize Heracles' forward moves a lot better.

The home team were again close to taking the lead, but just when the home crowd started to believe an upset was possible Huntelaar turned the game around with two magnificent goals.