Standard Liège 1-1 Ajax: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 8 December 2016

Result

Standard Liège 1-1 Ajax

Europa League · Thursday 8 December 2016, 20:05 UTC · half-time 0-1

Standard Liège · Ajax · Europa League predictions

Standard Liège 1-1 Ajax: match report

Standard Liège drew with Ajax 1-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 8 December 2016. The half-time score was 0-1.

Anwar El Ghazi opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Standard Liège's goal came from Benito Raman (84'). Ajax scored through Anwar El Ghazi (27').

Discipline: Standard Liège received 2 yellow cards; Ajax received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Standard Liège were 69th on 6 points from 5 and Ajax 25th on 13 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Standard Liège lined up in a 4-4-2 and Ajax in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Donny van de Beek of Ajax (8.6), ahead of Matthijs de Ligt (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Standard Liège wins, 0 draws and 1 for Ajax.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 27'Goal · Anwar El GhaziAjax · 0-1
  • 42'Yellow card · Kenny TeteAjax
  • 51'Yellow card · C. FioreStandard Liège
  • 59'Yellow card · Diederik BoerAjax
  • 78'Yellow card · Adrien TrébelStandard Liège
  • 81'Yellow card · Matthijs de LigtAjax
  • 84'Goal · Benito RamanStandard Liège · 1-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Standard Liège 0, draws 0, Ajax 1.

Team news

Standard Liège line-up (4-4-2)

Guillaume Hubert, Reginal Goreux, Alexander Scholz, Corentin Fiore, Konstantinos Laifis, Jean-Luc Dompé, Isaac Mbenza, Eyong Enoh, Adrien Trébel, Edmílson Junior, Orlando Sá

Ajax line-up (4-3-3)

Diederik Boer, Kenny Tete, Jaïro Riedewald, Mitchell Dijks, Matthijs de Ligt, Davy Klaassen, Donny van de Beek, Abdelhak Nouri, Anwar El Ghazi, Ahmad Nurosadi, Mateo Cassierra