In the group stage of the Europa League, Wouter Goes already fought duels with Paulo Dybala (AS Roma) and Edin Dzeko (Fenerbahçe). In the Eredivisie he prevented two games that the Ajax attackers Brian Brobbey and Wout Weghorst scored. “There are strikers that you like more than others. I don’t care who is in front of me, because I’m going to do my best with Alexandre Penetra to eliminate them.”
AZ is in the intermediate round of the Europa League. The club has to deal with Galatasaray in two games for a place in the last sixteen.
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It is the third time in a short time that Galatasaray is coming to Noord-Holland. At the end of November it already played against AZ (1-1) and in January Ajax won 2-1 against the Turks. “We can expect some other things from them. Now they also come for a different purpose,” says trainer Maarten Martens about the fact that the two clubs are now meeting each other in the knockout phase of the Europa League.
The Alkmaarders refuel a lot of confidence from the earlier European evenings in -house. Against Elfsborg (3-2), Fenerbahçe (3-1), Galatasaray (1-1) and AS Roma (1-0) achieved the good results. “At the start of the season we were close by and did not succeed and in the meantime it works. That gives a huge boost.”
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