Ajax comfortably saw off Heracles Almelo on Saturday evening. The Amsterdam side won 3-0 at the Asito Stadium thanks to goals from Mika Godts and a brace from Steven Berghuis, and held on easily despite Takehiro Tomiyasu being sent off in the closing stages.<\/p>\n
Ko Itakura and Oscar Gloukh came in for Sean Steur and Oliver Edvardsen, while Wout Weghorst again led the attack; the recovered Tomiyasu began on the bench. Kasper Dolberg remained on the bench throughout, while Heracles\u2019 line-up included former Ajax players Remko Pasveer and Naci \u00dcn\u00fcvar.<\/p>\n
Ajax started brightly, with early chances for Jorthy Mokio and Wout Weghorst. After an initial warning from Steven Berghuis\u2019s free-kick, well saved by Remko Pasveer, the breakthrough arrived in the sixteenth minute. Mika Godts seized on a hesitant moment from Pasveer and delicately chipped the ball over the advancing goalkeeper: 0-1.<\/p>\n
Less than a minute later, the visitors doubled their advantage: Wout Weghorst laid off a header for Steven Berghuis to finish calmly after a quick one-two. That early brace effectively settled the contest, as Heracles looked uninspired.<\/p>\n
Moments after the restart, a slick move saw Berghuis finish calmly after more hesitation from Pasveer, making it 0-3 and effectively sealing the result against the bottom side.<\/p>\n
Ajax kept pressing, with Weghorst and Godts both hitting the woodwork, while Heracles, already looking defeated, offered little response. Coach Ernest Faber\u2019s side appeared powerless and short on confidence.<\/p>\n
In the closing stages, Ajax suffered another setback when substitute Tomiyasu was sent off following a VAR review for bringing down Lequincio Zeefuik, who had broken through on goal. Nevertheless, the ten-man side saw out the match with relative ease, securing vital points in the race for European football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ajax comfortably saw off Heracles Almelo on Saturday evening. The Amsterdam side won 3-0 at the Asito Stadium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[749,199,5257,32591,32592,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-59566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-amsterdam","8":"tag-ajax","9":"tag-amsterdam","10":"tag-eredivisie","11":"tag-heracles","12":"tag-heracles-vs-ajax","13":"tag-netherlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116389663824438929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}