Opponent in the Spotlight: Willem II

Opponent in the Spotlight: Willem II

12/04/2014

Ajax will play at home against Willem II on Saturday at 20:45.

Ajax and Willem II so far played 89 official matches against eachother. Ajax won 71 of these confrontations, it ended in a draw 6 times, and Ajax lost 12 times.

Last season Willem II did not play in the Eredivisie, in the previous season Ajax won at home with 5-0, while earlier in that season in Tilburg the game ended in 2-4.

The first official matches between Ajax and Willem II took place in the Champions Competition in season 1917-18. Ajax won both matches (2-0 and 0-3) and became the domestic champion for the first time.

Another interesting series of matches took place at the end of season 1933-34. Ajax and Willem II met twice for the Champions Competition, which Ajax won at home, while the match in Tilburg ended in a draw. Ajax and Willem II ended together with KFC with 10 points, which meant that playoffs had to be played. In these playoffs both KFC and Ajax beat Willem II, while they played a draw against eachother. For this competition the goal difference was decisive and since Ajax won with a larger margin from Willem II, Ajax became the domestic champion.

On average Ajax scores over 3 goals per match against Willem II, while Willem II scores less than 1 goal against Ajax. Only one of the earlier meetings ended in a goalless draw.

Brothers Henk (13) and Cees Groot (9) are on positions 1 and 3 of most scoring Ajax players against Willem II. Luis Suarez is in second position with 11 goals, and has the best average of the 3 players.

From the current Ajax squad no player has scored more than 1 goal against Willem II.

From the current Willem II squad Mitchell Dijks and Fabian Sporkslede have a background with Ajax. Amongst others former Ajax players Marc Overmars and Jaap Stam played with Willem II before they joined Ajax.

Ajax is ten Eredivisie matches in a row unbeaten, but there are too many draws to keep the pressure on PSV. It is important to extend this serie with three more wins before the winterbreak.

Filed under: Ajax - Willem II 5 - 0 (12/6/2014)