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8¹ BAAS receives a yellow card for a high challenge. 9¹ BONIFACE steamed through the Ajax defence but shot straight at GORTER. 11¹ The hapless Ajax 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from PROMES fell just wide. 18¹ The referee yellow cards PROMES. 21¹ SIERHUIS booked for dangerous play. 32¹ A strike from PROMES held no problem for the Zaragoza 'keeper. 34¹ GOAL!! WILLIAMS brought the ball forward, glanced up and blasted a shot into the Ajax net. (1-0 Zaragoza) 38¹ FOFANA booked by CLATTENBURG for a clumsy challenge. 43¹ MILLOT shot wide. 44¹ GOAL!! Ajax's FURUHASHI beat two defenders before firing just inside the 'keeper's lefthand post. (1-1) 45¹ GOAL!! A wonderful dummy from WILLIAMS allowed MILLOT to lay a nice ball off to LARRAZABAL who struck the ball into the back of the net. (2-1 Zaragoza) 8² PROMES raced past LARRAZABAL but nudged the ball into the arms of the Zaragoza 'keeper. 10² A free-kick from WILLIAMS raced just wide. 16² CUADRADO was put clear by REGEER and he nutmegged the Zaragoza 'keeper but rammed his shot just beyond the far post. 21² GOAL!! ESPINO tried to play the ball out of the Zaragoza penalty area but was tackled by REGEER who headed the ball to DENSWIL for a simple tap in. (2-2) 23² A cross from CUADRADO left GRILLITSCH in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot. 27² GOAL!! An imaginative LARRAZABAL played a great ball down the right to BONIFACE who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (3-2 Zaragoza) 30² A shot from KLAIBER was smothered by the Zaragoza 'keeper. 33² A good ball from FURUHASHI on the left was collected by REGEER who mishit his effort over. 37² BONIFACE chipped the ball to WASS who touched it wide. 40² BAAS ran onto a delightful ball from GRILLITSCH but pulled his shot wide. 41² A mix up in the Ajax defence enabled BONIFACE to volley an effort over.

Ajax   League position: 21 Home league form: LLWL Overall league form: LLLLLLWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Jay GORTER 6  1 6  Noah ATUBOLU Joël VELTMAN 7½ 2 7  Daniel WASS(c) Stefano DENSWIL 6  3 7  Alfonso ESPINO Florian GRILLITSCH 7  4 7  Enzo MILLOT Wesley FOFANA 7½ 5 7½ Joseph AIDOO Youri BAAS 6  6 6  AHMETCAN Kaplan (c)Juan CUADRADO 7  7 6½ Gaizka LARRAZABAL Quincy PROMES 7  8 6  Iñaki WILLIAMS (p)Kaj SIERHUIS 6  9 7  Victor BONIFACE(p) (f)Youri REGEER 6½ 10 7  ISCO(f) Kyogo FURUHASHI 7  11 6  ENIS Destan Manager Lisandro MAGALLÁN    12    Archie BROWN Jeroen ZOET    13    ÁLVARO López RATÓN Sean KLAIBER 6½ 14    Takashi INUI ERIC Fernando    15    FRAN GÁMEZ Lucas ANDERSEN    16 6  Maurits KJÆRGAARD

Zaragoza   League position: 1 Away league form: LWXW Overall league form: LWWWWXWW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Ajax 2 Zaragoza 3 (Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 29,239, Stadium: Amsterdam Arena, Referee: Mark Clattenburg 6) Furuhashi 44¹, Denswil 21² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Williams 34¹, Larrazabal 45¹, Boniface 27² DenswilóKlaiber 27² IscoóKjærgaard 22²     Baas 8¹, Promes 18¹, Sierhuis 21¹, Fofana 38¹   2 4 16 15 3 5 10 6 10 8 20 14 7 3 52% 48% ¶ Man of the match: Joël Veltman ¶