Opponent in the Spotlight: PEC Zwolle
10/03/2014
Ajax will play against PEC Zwolle on Sunday at 16:45.
Ajax and Zwolle so far played 36 official matches against eachother.
Ajax won 25 of those meetings, played a draw 4 times and lost 7.
Last season Ajax won at home with 2-1, later in the season the result was 1-1 in Zwolle.
Afterwards Ajax and Zwolle met two more times, the Dutch Cup final and the Dutch Super Cup,
both were won by Zwolle.
Before PEC Zwolle promoted to the Eredivisie for the first time in season
1978-79
Ajax and PEC had already met several times for the Dutch Cup, in the seasons
en PEC elkaar al een aantal keer in de beker ontmoet, in de seizoenen
1929-30,
1968-69,
1971-72 and
1975-76.
In the first season in an intermediate round, and in the subsequent two seasons in the furst round, Ajax was able to eliminate
Zwolle. In the last of the 4 seasons PEC Zwolle and Ajax met in the quarter final and PEC beat Ajax with 3-0.
As indicated above Ajax has had trouble defeating Zwolle recently, and that is not just because of Ajax.
Zwolle is performing well and at this moment is leading the Eredivisie together with PSV and Ajax.
On average Ajax scores 2.5 goals per match against PEC Zwolle. Zwolle scores over 1 goal per match.
Only one of the previous confrontations ended in 0-0.
Marco van Basten is the topscorer of Ajax
against PEC Zwolle with 6 goals.
From the current Ajax players Viktor Fischer (2 from 4)
is the only player that scored more than once against Zwolle.
In the summer
Jody Lukoki transferred from Ajax to PEC Zwolle and
Diederik Boer from PEC Zwolle to Ajax.
In the past many former Ajax players ended up at Zwolle, especially in the eighties with players like
Piet Schrijvers,
Johnny Rep,
Peter van der Hengst and
Jan Weggelaar.
After the subsequent losses against PSV and Groningen Ajax has been unbeaten for six official macthes,
and Ajax has won the past three Eredivisie matches. Now it is time to stop the negative series
against PEC Zwolle.
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