Bookd • Shelbourne 2-2 Ajax

Shelbourne2 - 2Ajax

Full Time

Agg 3 - 5

Conference League · Aug 13, 2026

Holden Willemsen@holdenwillemsen

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★Aug 13 (edited)

Total scandal of a game. Paes is Paes, Bouwman needs to be loaned out, Blind needs to retire, Wijndal has needed to go for ages, Mokio needs a loan/Ajax need a new 6, Baas is Baas, can’t say much for Janse, Caio Henrique looked ok in attack but was absolutely exposed defensively, Gaaei looked alright. The only ones who should be allowed to stay are Janse, Gaaei, Caio Henrique, and MAYBE Baas. Edvardsen has to go, Leonardo has already proven himself to be a total flop and waste of €20 million, Regeer is Regeer, Carrizo is still too raw of a talent, Brandt looked ok but can’t do everything alone, Ouazane is still too raw, and Tolu was good but time wasting there was shameful. Let’s hope they use this to wake themselves up a bit considering they arguably should’ve lost this tie. One goal from a questionable set piece and a (luckily) disallowed goal for Shelbourne means this could’ve and arguably should’ve been 4-4 and in extra time.

Player of the match

Evan Caffrey

Shelbourne

Jackie@jackattack425

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★Aug 13

my first Ajax match and… it’s safe to say: at least it ended in a tie 🥲

Player of the match

Julian Brandt

Ajax

Lucas@carbonfiverr

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★Aug 13

Just a poor game, wasnt expecting too much from this game anyway but felt like they didnt really care for this game. But i suppose it also just takes some time, you cant be fluent under a new manager so fast especially with new signings being introduced and some others struggling with fitness. No one really played that well though, i’d say only Blind and Brandt, Baas got subbed in and did good as per usual, Ouazane looked decent. But it was rather dreadful besides that. Marcos Leonardo hasn’t had a great start, he just needs a goal and some confidence, he has quality enough so thats not the problem. We desperately need a new defensive mid still, besides that i think we will be fine over the season, just a winger if Godts does still leave. I just don’t have any takeaways from this, we rotated a bit, didn’t play with full intensity for majority of the game, and thus looked like shit. It’s also the way Shelbourne play, 5 at the back pretty much with some pretty big defenders, very very physical which a lot of our players aren’t too good against. Oh well i still have faith, Rome wasn’t built in a day and all that, it just all takes time and talking shit about everything and everyone won’t make any of them play better lmao. This was bad but this is not even in the top 30 worst games of the past 4 years.