Opponent in the Spotlight: SC Heerenveen
11/20/2014
Ajax will play an away game against SC Heerenveen on Saturday at 20:45.
Ajax and SC Heerenveen up till now played 61 official matches against eachother.
Ajax won 39 times, played a draw 10 times and lost 12 times.
Last season Ajax was able to win the home match relatively easy with 3-0, while earlier the season
in Heerenveen the match ended in a 3-3 draw.
In the years before the Eredivisie Ajax and Heerenveen met several times in the Champions Competition.
By far the most spectaculair of these confrontations was the last
meeting, played on may 7 1950 in Heerenveen.
Ajax was able to take a 5-1 lead (two goalsby Rinus Michels),
but in the end lost with 6-5. Abe Lenstra played in the Heerenveen squad and scored 2 of the 6 goals.
On average Ajax scores over 2.5 goals per match against Heerenveen, while Heerenveen scores
a little over one goal per match against Ajax. So far only two of the matches ended in 0-0.
Jari Litmanen is the topscorer of Ajax against
Heerenveen with 9.
From the current Ajax squad only Lasse Schone (3)
and Kolbeinn Sigthorsson (2) were able to score more
than 1 goal against Heerenveen on behalf of Ajax.
From the current squad at Heerenveen only
Joost van Aken has a background with Ajax, he played in the Ajax youth.
From the contract players at Ajax
Lasse Schone and
Robert van Koesveld (from Jong Ajax)
have a background at SC Heerenveen.
Ajax is unbeaten for 8 Eredivisie matches in a row, while Ajax won the last 3 Eredivisie matches.
Coming Saturday they will try to add another match to both these
series.
Filed under: Ajax - SC Heerenveen 4 - 1 (11/22/2014)
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