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
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.
Key events
- 3'Yellow card · Darío Cvitanich
- 12'Yellow card · Rob Wielaert
- 48'Goal · Miralem Sulejmani
- 50'Goal · Ramon Zomer
- 54'Goal · Miralem Sulejmani
- 67'Goal · Youssef El-Akchaoui
- 69'Second yellow · Darío Cvitanich
- 72'Yellow card · J. van Beukering
- 77'Yellow card · Rachid Bouaouzan
- 78'Own goal · Dani Fernández
- 90'Goal · Gabri
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