Opponent in the Spotlight: Go Ahead Eagles
10/23/2014
Ajax will play at home against Go Ahead Eagles on Saturday at 20:45.
Ajax and Go Ahead Eagles until now already played 76 official matches against each other.
Ajax won 59 of these confrontations, drew 6 times and lost 11 times.
Ajax won last season at home with 6-0, while later in the season Ajax won away with 0-1.
Go Ahead only played a few seasons in the Eredivisie since
1986-87, and in those seasons Ajax was able to beat them quite easily.
Before however Go Ahead was a force to be reckoned with and the history between Ajax and Go Ahead goes back to the early days of Dutch soccer.
Already in the season 1917-18 the clubs met for the first time,
in the champions competition. In Deventer the teams drew while Go Ahead won in Amsterdam. These were the only points Ajax lost,
and because Go Ahead dropped more points Ajax became (for the first time) the domestic champion. After this season the clubs
met each other another 6 seasons in the champions competition.
The relation between Ajax and Go Ahead was always good, there were many friendly matches between the clubs and
Go Ahead was also invited a few times to the Ajax easter tournament.
On Average Ajax scored almost 3 goals per match against Go Ahead, while Go Ahead on average scored almost
1 goal per match against Ajax. There were only two goalless draws in the history, both in the first two seasons Ajax
and Go Ahead met in the champions competition.
Johan Cruijff is with 17 goals the top scorer of Ajax against
Go Ahead.
From the current Ajax selection only Kolbeinn Sigthorsson
has scored more than one time against Go Ahead on behalf of Ajax, with 2 goals in 2 matches.
From the current squad of Go Ahead Eagles
Mickey van der Hart and
Lesley de Sa are on loan from Ajax. Furthermore also
Xandro Schenk,
Sven Nieuwpoort and
Nick de Bondt have a history at Ajax.
Amongst others current Ajax director
Marc Overmars has a past as a soccer player for both clubs.
Ajax is unbeaten for 5 matches in a row, but has lost the last official match. It is time that Ajax starts working on more
impressive series.
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