PEC Zwolle to strong for Ajax Amsterdam (sport)

Day 2,448, 23:16 • Published in Netherlands Chile • by Jupiter Olympus

The Football Inquirer
By Jupiter Olympus
From Western Netherlands, Poland

PEC Zwolle did what it had to yesterday against Ajax Amsterdam in the first official match between last years National Champions and last years KNVB Cup winner.
The Cup winners were with 1-0 to strong for the squad from Amsterdam. This is the 2nd time in a row the 'Blue Fingers' from Zwolle beat Ajax. In last years match the score was 5-1 in favor for the Zwollenaars. Stef Nijland scored the only goal in yesterdays match. It has been a first time in the history of PEC Zwolle to win the "Johan Cruijff Cup".



The first minutes of the game promised to be a good football Sunday. After 3 minutes there was a chance for Nick Viergever from Ajax. His attempt hit the sidebar and with the rebound Viergever got injured on his knee.

Ajax more possession but less chances
A while later a big chance for Zwolle. Mustafa Samyak was a bit unfortunate to whip the ball a bit to hard over the goal of Ajax goalie Kenneth Vermeer. Ajax was in this phase of the game the team with the most possession of the ball but were unlucky with their chances. Zwolle had then the chance to counter more. Just as before half time when Jesper Drost broke out towards the Ajax goal but as soon as he was in range Nikolas Moisander took him down in what should have been a red card. Moisander got lucky with only the yellow card.

In the second half it was Ajax who started their downfall. Ajax player Ligeon delivered the ball to Zwolle player Mokotjo who, with a perfect pass, delivered the ball to his colleague Nijland. With one touch Nijland scored the only goal of the day. After that PEC Zwolle defended their goal and let Ajax pass the ball round and created danger from the counter themselves.

In the last minutes Ajax tried to push out a little offensive break but were unsuccessful. Because of this, gaps would open up in the Ajax defense which created a couple opportunities for the Zwolle forwards. Nikos Ioannidis almost had the 2-0 on his shoe. There were also some chances for Samyak and Drost but the score remained 1-0 in the favor of PEC Zwolle.

Eredivisie 2014/2015
The win of PEC Zwolle over Ajax Amsterdam will promise to be a good football season in the Netherlands. The start of the season is only a couple days away and the eNL Inquirer will be there to give coverage in a weekly article about the matches on the fields in The Netherlands.
With the following matches on play day 1:
8 Aug: PEC Zwolle - FC Utrecht
9 Aug: SC Heerenveen - FC Dordrecht
9 Aug: SC Cambuur - FC Twente
9 Aug: NAC Breda - Excelsior
9 Aug: Heracles Almelo - AZ
10 Aug: ADO Den Haag - Feyenoord Rotterdam
10 Aug: Go Ahead Eagles - FC Groningen
10 Aug: Ajax Amsterdam - Vitesse
10 Aug: Willem II - PSV