Vitesse 4-1 Ajax: result and report
Eredivisie · Sunday 8 February 2009
Result
Vitesse 4-1 Ajax
Eredivisie · Sunday 8 February 2009, 11:30 UTC · half-time 3-1
Vitesse 4-1 Ajax: match report
Vitesse beat Ajax 4-1 in Eredivisie on Sunday 8 February 2009. It was 3-1 at half-time.
Lasse Nilsson opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Vitesse's goals came from Lasse Nilsson (7'), Dalibor Stevanovič (40'), Lasse Nilsson (45') and Ricky van Wolfswinkel (68'). Ajax scored through Luis Suárez (15').
Discipline: Vitesse received 2 yellow cards; Ajax received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Vitesse were 14th on 22 points from 21 and Ajax 3rd on 42 points from 21. Vitesse went on to finish that season 10th with 43 points, and Ajax 3rd with 68.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Vitesse win, 1 draw and 3 for Ajax.
Going into the match Vitesse's last five read W-W-D-L-W and Ajax's D-L-L-W-W.
Key events
- 7'Goal · Lasse Nilsson
- 15'Goal · Luis Suárez
- 20'Yellow card · Sébastien Sansoni
- 40'Goal · Dalibor Stevanovič
- 41'Yellow card · Dalibor Stevanovič
- 45'Goal · Lasse Nilsson
- 53'Yellow card · Gabri
- 68'Goal · Ricky van Wolfswinkel
Head-to-head
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