Ajax 3-0 AEK Athens: result and report
Champions League · Wednesday 19 September 2018
Result
Ajax 3-0 AEK Athens
Champions League · Wednesday 19 September 2018, 16:55 UTC · half-time 0-0
Ajax 3-0 AEK Athens: match report
Ajax defeated AEK Athens 3-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday 19 September 2018. The half-time score was 0-0.
Nicolás Tagliafico opened the scoring in the 46th minute. Ajax's goals came from Nicolás Tagliafico (46'), Donny van de Beek (77') and Nicolás Tagliafico (90'). AEK Athens did not score.
Discipline: Ajax received 3 yellow cards; AEK Athens received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Ajax were 2nd on 14 points from 6 and AEK Athens 14th on 8 points from 4. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
Ajax lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and AEK Athens in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Nicolás Tagliafico of Ajax (9.8), ahead of Carel Eiting (7.8).
Going into the match Ajax's last five read D-W-W-D-W and AEK Athens's D-W-W-D.
Key events
- 46'Goal · Nicolás Tagliafico
- 72'Yellow card · Alef
- 74'Yellow card · Frenkie de Jong
- 74'Yellow card · Petros Mantalos
- 75'Yellow card · Hakim Ziyech
- 77'Goal · Donny van de Beek
- 88'Yellow card · Nicolás Tagliafico
- 90'Goal · Nicolás Tagliafico
Team news
Ajax line-up (4-2-3-1)
André Onana, Noussair Mazraoui, Frenkie de Jong, Daley Blind, Nicolás Tagliafico, Carel Eiting, Lasse Schöne, Hakim Ziyech, David Neres, Dusan Tadic, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
AEK Athens line-up (4-2-3-1)
Vasilios Barkas, Jorge Ribolzi, Marios Oikonomou, Konstantinos-Vassilios Lambropoulos, Niklas Hult, Konstantinos Galanopoulos, André Simões, M. Bakakis, V. Klonaridis, Petros Mantalos, Ezequiel Ponce