ADO Den Haag lost its last competition match to Ajax on Sunday. In Amsterdam the home team turned out to be too strong with a 3-0 score. However, trainer Alex Scholte is full of praise for goalkeeper Barbara Lorsheyd.
“We put full pressure on. Then I saw an ADO Den Haag, which I think executed the plan very well for the first twenty minutes. We had also discussed the dangers during training last week, so that actually works out well.” Scholte analyzed afterwards at ESPN. “Then it is clichéd, but if that pin goes in, it will be a different game. Then we will be 1-0 ahead.”
“We already had two hundred percent chances before that, and then another one hundred percent chance. I think Ajax’s 2-0 in particular was the breaking point for us. After that moment we lost it for a while. The last ten minutes of the first We really lost it for half of the time,” said the trainer. The players sat together at halftime. “I have said: ‘what are we going to do, what is plan B?‘. We had that. Then we go back into our own formation. But if you play one-on-one from the start, you don’t actually have a plan B,” Scholte is realistic.
He continues: “You can hardly play with one less at the back and one more at the front. Ajax continues to play in its own way, we knew that. On the one hand, I think the result is flattering in terms of the way the game is played, but if you sees the odds ratio, of course not. Ajax comes through well in the end, they create a number of chances. I think it is thanks to Bar (Barbara Lorsheyd, ed.) that we did not go further. He has here a nice calling card to succeed Daphne van Domselaar,” it sounds complimentary.
ADO wanted to grab Ajax by the throat, Scholte emphasizes. “We did what everyone would expect in this interim phase for Ajax. Then you have to try to grab them by the throat, whether you play at home or away. We did that. That seemed like the most logical step to us. I think that the execution was fine, except for one percent. That was the percent for the goal.”
