Opponent in the Spotlight: ADO Den Haag

Opponent in the Spotlight: ADO Den Haag

11/26/2014

Ajax will play against ADO Den Haag on Sunday at 12:30.

Ajax and ADO Den Haag until now played 58 official matches against each other, for which we only count the matches played against the current club, after the merger in 1971. Ajax won 42 of these confrontations, played a draw 10 times and lost 6 times.

Last season Ajax was able to win 0-4 in the away game, while later in the season in the ArenA ADO Den Haag was beaten with 3-2.

Next to the many confrontations in the Eredivisie, Ajax and Den Haag also met twice in the final of the Dutch Cup. The first time the great Ajax of the seventies with Cruijff, Keizer and Swart was able to win with a narrow margin, 3-2. The second time two goals in the extra time by Van Basten were necessary to win with 2-4. Bosman had already scored twice during the regular time.

On average Ajax scores over 2 goals per match against Den Haag, while Den Haag scores less than 1 goal per match against Ajax. 4 of the matches ended in 0-0.
John Bosman is the top scorer against Den Haag with 8 goals. From the current Ajax squad only Davy Klaassen (with 2 from 2) was able to score more than 1 goal against Den Haag on behalf of Ajax.

From the current Den Haag squad Vito Wormgoor and Robert Zwinkels have a past with Ajax. Ricardo Kishna played in the Den Haag youth academy before be came to Ajax. In the past amongst other players the great Ajax icon Tscheu La Ling played with Den Haag before he came to Ajax.

Ajax is now nine Eredivisie matches in a row unbeaten, and to keep the pressure on PSV it is necessary to extend the serie, preferably with wins.

Filed under: ADO Den Haag - Ajax 1 - 1 (11/30/2014)