Friday, December 18, 2009
Discovering Ajax
Juventus will be meeting Ajax again after 5 years: during the 2004/05 season the bianconeri and the lancieri met during the elimination stage of the Champions League and in the two matches, Juventus who at the time were coached by Fabio Capello, won by 1-0.
In all the two teams met 10 times, with 5 victories for the bainconeri, 3 draws and 2 defeats, one of which in the final of the 1973 Champions Cup in Belgrade. That time the match ended on a 1-0 score for Ajax, but Juventus made up for this 23 years later in the historical match in Rome which saw them taking the cup to Turin.
The other defeat suffered by the bianconeri was in the UEFA Cup, during the 1975/75 season. In the two match of the final 16 round, Ajax won 2-1 in the return match after the 1-0 victory by Juventus in Turin and therefore the bianconeri went through.
At the moment, Ajax are third in the Dutch championship with 38 points, 9 points behind leaders Twente and 7 from second-placed PSV. The young team with good technical qualities, is currently coached by Martin Jol and has Uruguay national Suarez as its star player. The coach already met Juventus two summers ago, during the Emirates Cup as coach of Hamburg. On that occasion the German side won 3-0.
Juventus.com
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