Opponent in the Spotlight: FC Twente
10/17/2014
Ajax will play against FC Twente saturday at 20:45.
Ajax and FC Twente played 111 official matches until now.
Ajax won 67 times, played 22 draws and also lost 22 times. Ajax also played matches against the two predecessors of FC Twente:
28 (13, 9, 6 ) against SC Enschede
and 9 (4, 2, 3 ) against Enschedese Boys.
Last season Ajax drew in Enschede with 1-1, while later in the season Ajax won at home with 3-0.
Recently FC Twente and Ajax battled it out for the top prices in few of the seasons. In the season
2009-10 Ajax ended the season with a long series of wins,
but since FC Twente also hardly dropped points, FC Twente stayed ahead and became domestic champion. In the
next season FC Twente and Ajax again stayed close at
the end of the season. After FC Twente first beat Ajax in the
Dutch Cup Final, Ajax was too too strong
for FC Twente one week later in the last round
of the Eredivisie and so won its thirtieth domestic title.
On average Ajax scores over 2 goals per match against FC Twente, while FC Twente on average scored exactly 1
goal per match against Ajax. The confrontation ended four times in 0-0.
Piet Keizer is the top scorer of Ajax against FC Twente
with 14 goals.
From the current Ajax squad none of the players scored more than once time against FC Twente.
From the current FC Twente squad
Dico Koppers and
Robbert Schilder have a past with Ajax.
In the past there were many famous players that played for both clubs, such as
Ronald de Boer ,
John Bosman,
Kenneth Perez and
Dick van Dijk.
Ajax is now already 7 official matches unbeaten, from which 4 Eredivisie matches.
That is still far away from a long serie.
Filed under: FC Twente - Ajax 1 - 1 (10/18/2014)
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