Kenneth Perez Corrects Fresia: Ajax Comment Dispute

Kenneth Perez corrected ESPN reporter Fresia Cousiño Arias during halftime of Ajax – Go Ahead Eagles on Saturday evening. While Ajax was leading 2-0 and apparently on a rose, Perez reprimanded her for a comment that in his view was made from an Ajax perspective. Ultimately, Go Ahead Eagles managed to come alongside in an impressive manner in the second half: 2-2.

During halftime, Cousiño Arias reported on the state of affairs in the Johan Cruijff ArenA. “Jordi Cruijff appears to be in Amsterdam and Ajax hopes to sign the signatures tonight. First about football. If there is more news about that, you will hear about it.” She then concluded: “Football, there seems to be no problem.”

Perez then deliberately paused and responded with a small correction: “You mean for Ajax? There are two parties, right?” Cousiño Arias immediately acknowledged: “No, that’s right.”

Perez continued his argument: “There is a lot going on at Go Ahead. They seem to have thought in advance how they can make it as easy as possible for Ajax. By having a lot of people in front of the ball.”

The analyst had nothing good to say about the tactics of the team from Deventer. “It seems as if Go Ahead has thought in advance how they can best help Ajax. They have a lot of men in front of the ball, but do not move along at all.

Afterwards, however, Perez sounded a lot more nuanced. “I didn’t expect this at halftime,” he admitted. “Good conversions from the Go Ahead trainer. I think the trainer gets a 3 for the first half and a 9 for the second. He exchanges a midfielder for a second striker, which puts pressure on Ajax’s two central players.”

Due to the conversion, Ajax could no longer build up, according to Perez. “It took until the 65th minute for Ajax to play with three central players, allowing them to rebuild.” By then the match picture had completely changed.