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0¹ An inswinging corner was fired into the arms of the 'keeper by LEWANDOWSKI. 3¹ ÁLVAREZ ran onto a delightful ball from DOUGLAS LUIZ but dragged his shot wide of the righthand post. 8¹ GOAL!! A free-kick was palmed away by the Ajax 'keeper, TAGLIAFICO was first to the loose ball and floated the ball to NÚÑEZ to slide home. (1-0 Boca Juniors) 11¹ TIMBER rushed through the Boca Juniors defence but shot straight at the 'keeper. 13¹ The Ajax 'keeper dived to his left to block an accurate drive from Boca Juniors's NÚÑEZ. 14¹ A penalty box scramble resulted in DOUGLAS LUIZ cracking the ball wide. 17¹ A header by MARTÍNEZ at the far post was easily collected by the 'keeper. 20¹ HAVERTZ beat GABRIEL and drilled the ball to HAZARD who hit his effort wide. 22¹ LENO was able to claw away a weak shot from MAC ALLISTER. 23¹ GOAL!! LEWANDOWSKI hit a swerving twenty yard shot past the hapless Boca Juniors 'keeper. (1-1) 26¹ LENO did well to hold onto a wicked shot from MARTÍNEZ. 26¹ A pin-point pass found TIMBER and his left foot shot floated narrowly over. 29¹ VALVERDE knocked the ball to NÚÑEZ who turned it just wide. 3² GOAL!! A great twenty-five yard shot from HAZARD shook the upright and in the ensuing meleé the ball was headed into the net by LEWANDOWSKI. (2-1 Ajax) 8² GOAL!! A strike from KLUIVERT which the 'keeper managed to palm clear was deemed over the line by the linesman and the referee awarded the goal. (3-1 Ajax) 10² A drive from MARTÍNEZ seemed a certain goal but LENO managed to parry the ball away. 23² NÚÑEZ turned HAVERTZ but slammed the ball into the arms of LENO. 29² MARTÍNEZ stroked a simple chance past the far post. 31² The referee books MARTÍNEZ for a poor challenge. 36² A great effort from IBAÑEZ scraped the upright. 38² MARTÍNEZ's shot beat the Ajax 'keeper but rebounded off the Ajax post. 41² A good ball from HAZARD on the right fell to KLUIVERT who scuffed his effort just beyond the near post.

Ajax   League position: 18 Home league form: LWXW Overall league form: LWLXLWLW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Bernd LENO 6½ 1 7  André ONANA Jurriën TIMBER 6½ 2 8½ EMERSON Aparecido Yannick CARRASCO 6½ 3 7  Nicolás TAGLIAFICO Lorenzo PELLEGRINI 7½ 4 7½ GABRIEL dos Santos Evan N'DICKA 6½ 5 7  Lisandro MARTÍNEZ Roger IBAÑEZ 7  6 7  Alexis MAC ALLISTER(f) Thomas PARTEY 7  7 8  Federico VALVERDE Justin KLUIVERT 6½ 8 6  DOUGLAS LUIZ Soares(c) (c,p)Robert LEWANDOWSKI 6½ 9 7½ Julián ÁLVAREZ (f)Kai HAVERTZ 6  10 6½ Lautaro MARTÍNEZ(p) Thorgan HAZARD 5½ 11 7  Darwin NÚÑEZ Manager Ben Stevenson Devyne RENSCH    12    Gabriel MARTINELLI RUI Pedro PATRÍCIO    13    Emiliano MARTÍNEZ Mohammed KUDUS    14    RAPHINHA Sepp VAN DEN BERG    15    Enzo FERNÁNDEZ Ryan GRAVENBERCH    16 7  Luis DÍAZ

Boca Juniors   League position: 3 Away league form: XWXX Overall league form: WXXWXXXW Formation: 4-2-1-3

Statistics

Ajax 3 Boca Juniors 1 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 51,159, Stadium: Amsterdam Arena, Referee: Massimo Chiesa 6) Lewandowski 23¹, Lewandowski 3², Kluivert 8² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Núñez 8¹   TagliaficoóDíaz 10²       Martínez 31² 4 3 10 17 4 20 6 8 7 6 13 14 3 6 46% 54% ¶ Man of the match: Emerson Aparecido ¶