I'm not saying that Ajax are worse or anything but it's not something new. There was Roma last year and Monaco the previous season. There's a recent trend in newcomers beating world class teams and then fading away in the semi-finals so it's understandable people have doubts.
Having doubts is one thing, to make comments like "easy pass", "will be ripped to pieces", is just... disrespectful, arrogant, ignorant and completely alienated from reality. But the thing that gets me is, these people make these comments
again every single round as if nothing changed. As if their earlier assessment never requires re-evaluating after new information has been provided that contradicts the information (or lack thereof) upon which an earlier decision was made.
In fact, these people start making excuses to why their assessment was still correct, even though their prediction was entirely wrong (and in making these excuses completely contradict themselves of course as it meant their assessment of the opposition would have been wrong). At no point do they consider that they might have simply been off. That's just about ego, not about legit doubts.
That's what bothers me. The deliberate complete lack of self-critique and narcissistic doubling down.
I bet that even if Ajax manages to win the CL and would school Barça for 90 minutes (which I doubt would happen, but hey, at this point one can still dream), they will still provide reasons for why it's not a 'real' real achievement and they won because Barça was bad, not Ajax being good enough to make Barça look bad and had everything been perfect according to their predictions (the key here, THEIR predictions and assumptions are accurate, it's just reality that resented following them), it would never have happened. For example suggesting that "This was the weakest Barça ever", "Messi is over his top" or "he had an off-day, but if he had played as normal...", "Player X was missing", "They were tired from the competition match", "Barça players made individual mistakes", blablabla. None of the reasons will involve the option that Ajax was simply better and declassed an opponent fair and square.
A lot of people thinking Spurs will go through? Depleted Spurs squad, no Alli, Winks, Kane, but one away goal makes it really difficult for City as they were held goalless at Spurs. It can go either way, still fancy City to go through over Spurs though.
Spurs has ex-Ajax players though.
