NEC Nijmegen 1-5 Ajax: result and report

Eredivisie · Saturday 8 April 2017

Result

NEC Nijmegen 1-5 Ajax

Eredivisie · Saturday 8 April 2017, 17:45 UTC · half-time 0-3

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NEC Nijmegen 1-5 Ajax: match report

NEC Nijmegen were beaten by Ajax 1-5 in Eredivisie on Saturday 8 April 2017. It was 0-3 at half-time.

NEC Nijmegen's goal came from Ferdi Kadioglu (54'). Ajax scored through an own goal by W. Golla (4'), David Neres (8'), Bertrand Traoré (32'), Bertrand Traoré (60') and Hakim Ziyech (78').

Discipline: NEC Nijmegen received no yellow cards; Ajax received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game NEC Nijmegen were 15th on 27 points from 29 and Ajax 2nd on 69 points from 29. NEC Nijmegen went on to finish that season 17th with 33 points, and Ajax 2nd with 81.

NEC Nijmegen lined up in a 5-3-2 and Ajax in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Davy Klaassen of Ajax (8.8), ahead of Bertrand Traoré (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 NEC Nijmegen win, 1 draw and 8 for Ajax.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Own goal · W. GollaAjax · 0-1
  • 8'Goal · David NeresAjax · 0-2
  • 32'Goal · Bertrand TraoréAjax · 0-3
  • 54'Goal · Ferdi KadiogluNEC Nijmegen · 1-3
  • 60'Goal · Bertrand TraoréAjax · 1-4
  • 72'Yellow card · Donny van de BeekAjax
  • 78'Goal · Hakim ZiyechAjax · 1-5

Head-to-head

10 meetings: NEC Nijmegen 1, draws 1, Ajax 8.

Team news

NEC Nijmegen line-up (5-3-2)

Joris Delle, Michael Heinloth, Dario Dumic, Wojciech Golla, Lorenzo Burnet, F. Sturing, Janio Bikel, Mohamed Rayhi, Gregor Breinburg, Taiwo Awoniyi, Jay-Roy Grot

Ajax line-up (4-3-3)

André Onana, Joël Veltman, Davinson Sánchez, Nick Viergever, Matthijs de Ligt, Davy Klaassen, Lasse Schöne, Hakim Ziyech, David Neres, Bertrand Traoré, Ahmad Nurosadi