Match Thread: Southampton - AFC Ajax Amsterdam

Match: Pre-season friendly, Southampton vs. Ajax
Kickoff: 15:00(GMT), 16:00(CET)
Venue: St. Mary's Stadium
Referee: Mr. L. Probert​

Last 5 matches from goal.com and bbc.co.uk:

Southampton:

Jul 21, 2012 Evian Thonon Gaillard 0-1 Southampton FR
Jul 18, 2012 Étoile Carouge FC 1-4 Southampton FR
Apr 28,2012 Southampton 4-0 Coventry npower Championship
Apr 24, 2012 Middlesbrough 2-1 Southampton npower Championship
Apr 17, 2012 Peterborough 1-3 Southampton npower Championship

Ajax:
Jul 21, 2012 Ajax 4-0 Celtic FR
Jul 14, 2012 Noordwijk 0-8 Ajax FR
Jul 11, 2012 BV Veendam 1-5 Ajax FR
May 6, 2012 Vitesse 1-5 Ajax ERE
May 2, 2012 Ajax 2-0 VVV-Venlo ERE

Previous meetings:

18-07-2009 Friendly Southampton 1 : 4 Ajax

Line ups:

Southampton:

Davis

Clyne - Fonte - Hooiveld - Fox

Schneiderlin - Ward Prowse - Lallana - Guly

Rodriguez - Lambert
​

Substitutes: Gazzaniga, Richardson, Stephens, Shaw, Chambers, Sharp, Hammond, Puncheon, Chaplow, Seaborne, De Ridder.

AFC Ajax:

Sigthorsson

Boerrigter - De Jong - Ozbilliz

Janssen - Anita

Blind - Dijks - Alderweireld - Van Rhijn

Vermeer​

Substitutes: Cillessen, Klaassen, Serero, Koppers, Lukoki, Ligeon, Fischer.

 

Canary in peace. I just spotted that your match vs Ajax is on Channel 5 this afternoon.
However do you manage to get a pre-season friendly on terrestrial TV?

Good luck for the season ahead - in all but two fixtures

 

Yes it is, haven't got a clue!!

Looking forward to finding out what the channel 5 pundits think about us. If they like us I will be happy, if they say we are going down I will slag them off.

 

Links confirmed for livestream:

Firstrowsports: http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/132572/1/watch-southampton-fc-vs-ajax.html

Wiziwig: http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=165753&part=sports

Livetv: http://livetv.ru/en/eventinfo/128212_southampton_ajax/

Rojadirecta: http://www.rojadirecta.me/

More links:

http://www.sportlive24.me/streams/CreepyTV2.html
http://www.sportlive24.me/streams/CreepyTV.html
http://www.sportlemon.tv/wv-4/2/92/v-429285.html

 

Ajax have been free scoring so far in pre-season a little too much for my liking!

 

Davis, Clyne, Fonte, Hooiveld, Fox, Schneiderlin, Ward-Prowse Lallana, Guly, Rodriguez and Lambert

Gazzaniga, Richardson, Stephens, Shaw, Chambers, Sharp, Hammond, Puncheon, Chaplow, Seaborne, De Ridder.

 

Ajax website states that Frank de Boer will likely select most of his starting eleven players for this season.

Sarting eleven players Ajax : Vermeer, Blind, Alderweireld, Van der Wiel, Boilesen, Anita, Jansen, Eriksen, Ebicillio, Sightorsson, Sulejmani

But it is likely that De Boer will field 2 or 3 youth players, Ebicillio was ill on friday and Eriksen is not fully fit yet.

 

looks like the strongest available 11 with cork away and davis injured

 

Very happy with starting XI!

 

Can i get this confrimed somewhere? Source?

 

http://twitter.com/officialsaints

 

Added the line up in the top post, i hope i didnt screw it up position wise.

 

More live stream links:

http://tykestv.eu/index.php
http://www.coolsport.tv/stream2.php
http://www.tugalive3.blogspot.com.es/p/channel-1.html

 

Most likely midfield is Lallana left, Guly right, Schneiderlin and Ward-Prowse centre mate.

 

Guly will be on the right, Lallana on the left and Schneiderlin in the centre, I expect.

EDIT: Vermeer, Alderweireld, Anita, Sigthorsson, De Jong, Janssen, Blind, Boerrigter, Ozbiliz, Van Rhijn, Dijks.

Cillessen, Klaassen, Serero, Koppers, Lukoki, Ligeon, Fischer.

 

Updated the line up of Ajax. Eriksen, Van de Wiel, Boilesen and Sulejmani are missing.

 

beat you to it. by a mere 3 days...and it was on page 1 the whole time.....must try harder.

 

83,5 % think it's either going to be a draw or a win for Ajax, not much faith on the boards here...

 

Really strong Ajax team gotta go for an away win

 

Ken Monkou is the pundit on channel 5!