Fenerbahçe fog Thursday injured three basic players in the away match against Ajax in the Europa League.
Abdoulaye Ba, Lazar Markovic and Caner Erkin are not part of the 19-man squad for the Turkish club of Robin van Persie who arrived on Wednesday in Amsterdam. Goalkeeper Volkan Demirel it was present. Tuesday he was still sick in bed when his team practiced in Istanbul.
Fenerbahçe has two points after three matches over Ajax. The current number three in the Turkish league defeated the leader of the league two weeks ago 1-0.
"When we saw that both teams are pretty evenly matched, '' said coach Vitor Pereira." It's not that we settle for a draw, we never do that. We also want to win here. ''
The Portuguese refused to be accompanied at the press conference in the Arena by Robin van Persie, who has not yet responded to the decision of coach Danny Blind to pass him for the upcoming exhibition games of Orange with Wales and Germany.
Pereira said he expects the Dutch striker Thursday may be of value for 'Fener'. "With his skills and experience, Van Persie is going to help us tomorrow."
The coach appeared along with Josef de Souza in the press room of the ArenA. The Brazilian came last summer for a rough eight million euros of São Paulo. "We are confident that we can win again at Ajax, '' he said.
The match between Ajax and Fenerbahçe begins Thursday at 19:00 and is headed by the Israeli arbitrator Liran Liany.
Door: ANP/NU.nl/ Foto: ANP