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In the temple of Johan Cruyff , at the home of a current Champions League semifinalist, the project of José Bordalás in Getafe reached his consecration. He did not even need to win in Amsterdam to claim once more as a monumental team. Because the defeat was so circumstantial - three shots to the stick they had - as conditioned by the comfortable 2-0 achieved in the first leg at the Coliseum. In the antipodes of the canons born in Holland that have ruled football in the last decade, Getafe accedes to the knockout stages of the Europa League with total merit. No look released from moralist prejudices can deny that Bordalás' team has been vastly superior in the tie. [Narration and statistics: 2-1]

Because Getafe, in addition to winning on the field, also did it outside of it. Although he did not know, Ajax had lost the tie before even the match began. So tense and suggestive he was, so mentally gripped by Getafe, that for a long time he focused more on protest than on the ball. A swampy terrain that is really a trap in which the Madrid team moves like nobody else in Spain and maybe in Europe. That said, of course, as praise and not as desdoro. Whatever they say, managing your own nerves and those of the rival is also football.

Ajax, in short, focused more on organizing a large army of ball bouncers that would accelerate the pauses than on thinking about how to raise the result they had reaped in the Coliseum. At times, the party touched the parody. Every time Getafe had to put a ball into play, the Amsterdam Arena roared to intensify the campaign encouraged by the Dutch team from the first leg. The argument was the usual one, the only one that takes Bordalás out of his boxes: Getafe wastes too much time.

Mata's early goal

In those was the love of Ajax while Olivera decided where to send a throw-in. With that musical thread, he sent it to Deyverson , the Brazilian sent it to the area as he could and there Mata won the dispute to overtake Getafe. Ajax's response, already four goals away from the standings, was quick. Van de Beek combined the quality and chaos as only he knows how to do and paraded the ball through the small area so that Danilo riveted on the second post. The initial quarter-hour bronco closed with a wholesale anger that ended with Ten Hag and Bordalás facing and admonished. Gasoline for Getafe.

The tie gave way to a few more conservative minutes of the blue box, but Ajax was unable to threaten his rival with arguments. In fact, it was the Spanish team that most approached the goal before the break with two consecutive shots to the stick. Without the imagination of Ziyech and Neres or the verticality of Tagliafico , Ajax lacked offensive resources to intimidate a very safe Getafe in his area and nothing disdainful of looking for another goal that buckled the night.

The lucky second goal of Ajax, in which Olivera cleared a lack of Eiting towards his goal that Soria had controlled, did not alter the dynamics of the duel. Ten Hag's team was vein frustration, entangled in a maze for which there was no escape possible. Getafe was close to tie the clash, but it did not matter, the classification was a fact from before starting. What an immense team of Bordalás.

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