{"id":327,"date":"2017-02-24T15:54:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u15267p11080.web0108.zxcs.nl\/?p=327"},"modified":"2017-03-01T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:56:28","slug":"a-review-of-the-current-ajax-midfield-composition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajaxdaily.com\/2017\/a-review-of-the-current-ajax-midfield-composition\/","title":{"rendered":"A review of the current Ajax midfield composition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lasse Schone signed a new two-year extension, Davy Klaassen has scored the most goals during a season in his career while Hakim Ziyech opened the year with three goals in three games. Despite losing Riechedly Bazoer and Nemanja Gudelj in the January window, Ajax’ midfield unit have continued to thrive in the Eredivisie. The away games have been hard fought and edgy affairs with Ajax having 5 games away from home and 2 games at home since the turn of the year, yet they have only scored two more goals on the road as they have 5 goals in the two home games and seven in the five away games. The three midfield machines have been ever present in Ajax’ success this season.<\/p>\n

Schone has been consistently brilliant at the base of midfield as his busy all-action style allows Ajax to move the ball out of the back quicker and apply pressure on their opponents for large sums of games. With more teams, using a man-orientated marking scheme against Ajax, few deep lying playmakers would have been able to adjust but Schone receives the ball and shields the ball with the initiative of a player who has been playing in the role his whole career. Against Vitesse, he played with such dexterity that Jairo Riedewald played the ball into the experienced Dane under pressure many times and he managed to wriggle into space and start an attack.<\/p>\n

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A 12 second video on the brilliance of Lasse Schone as a deep-lying playmaker. @ajaxdailydotcom<\/a> @football_oranje<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/4to2zTc1qX<\/a><\/p>\n

— Chaka Simbeye (@chaka_simbeye) February 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n