NEC Nijmegen 2-4 Ajax: result and report

Eredivisie · Sunday 18 January 2009

Result

NEC Nijmegen 2-4 Ajax

Eredivisie · Sunday 18 January 2009, 13:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

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NEC Nijmegen 2-4 Ajax: match report

NEC Nijmegen lost to Ajax 2-4 in Eredivisie on Sunday 18 January 2009. The half-time score was 0-0.

Miralem Sulejmani opened the scoring in the 48th minute. NEC Nijmegen's goals came from Ramon Zomer (50') and Youssef El-Akchaoui (67'). Ajax scored through Miralem Sulejmani (48'), Miralem Sulejmani (54'), an own goal by Dani Fernández (78') and Gabri (90').

Discipline: NEC Nijmegen received 2 yellow cards; Ajax received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game NEC Nijmegen were 8th on 26 points from 17 and Ajax 2nd on 38 points from 17. NEC Nijmegen went on to finish that season 11th with 42 points, and Ajax 3rd with 68.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 NEC Nijmegen win, 4 draws and 2 for Ajax.

Going into the match NEC Nijmegen's last five read L-D-W-L-W and Ajax's W-W-W-W-D.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Yellow card · Darío CvitanichAjax
  • 12'Yellow card · Rob WielaertAjax
  • 48'Goal · Miralem SulejmaniAjax · 0-1
  • 50'Goal · Ramon ZomerNEC Nijmegen · 1-1
  • 54'Goal · Miralem SulejmaniAjax · 1-2
  • 67'Goal · Youssef El-AkchaouiNEC Nijmegen · 2-2
  • 69'Second yellow · Darío CvitanichAjax
  • 72'Yellow card · J. van BeukeringNEC Nijmegen
  • 77'Yellow card · Rachid BouaouzanNEC Nijmegen
  • 78'Own goal · Dani FernándezAjax · 2-3
  • 90'Goal · GabriAjax · 2-4

Head-to-head

7 meetings: NEC Nijmegen 1, draws 4, Ajax 2.

Team news

Ajax expected line-up

Maarten Stekelenburg, Olaf Lindenbergh, Hatem Trabelsi, Zdenek Grygera, Steven Pienaar, Hedwiges Maduro, Tomas Galasek, Markus Rosenberg, Thomas Vermaelen, Nourdin Boukhari, Urby Emanuelson