Welcome to our live blog! On this Wednesday, the tension in the title fight from the Eredivisie to the boiling point has risen. With two games to go, leader Ajax is only one point for attacker PSV. The Amsterdammers visit Groningen, while the Eindhoven players receive Heracles Almelo in their own house. AZ also plays against competitor FC Twente in Enschede. Follow all developments in our live blog.
Live: FC Groningen – Ajax 0-0
Live: PSV – Heracles Almelo 0-0
Live: FC Twente – AZ 0-1
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Ajax and FC Groningen are still in balance in the opening phase. Also important: PSV and Heracles are still 0-0.
What a wonderful start to AZ. Ruben van Bommel pokes the ball in the goal on the instructions of Sven Mijnans. AZ takes over the fifth place in Twente virtually.
Josip Sutalo and Brian Brobbey are part of the selection of Ajax for Wednesday’s away match against FC Groningen. The defender and attacker are fit on time, reports trainer Francesco Farioli on the Ajax website. Sutalo was dizzy on Sunday in the home game with NEC (0-3) and had to be replaced in the break. Brobbey ran an ankle injury in the run -up to that competition and stayed on the reserve bench. Wout Weghorst stood in the rush.
Leader Ajax has only a 1 -point lead on PSV with two games to go. Farioli does not want to talk about revenge. “It’s not about that. It is about making a great season even more beautiful,” he says. “If you look at the statistics of the last three games you get a different picture. But earlier in the season we might also get a little too much. You strip that at the end against each other. Now we have to fight to determine our fate. The feeling is the same for everyone: we keep fighting.”
Karen Stevenson (+78 kilograms) from Heiloo and Emiel Jaring (-60 kilograms) from Purmerend will participate in the World Cup next month. They take place from 13 to 19 June in the Hungarian capital Budapest. The European Championship ran out for Stevenson on a deception, since she was eliminated in the first round. Jaring made it to the quarterfinals and finished seventh.
Michael Korrel (Assendelft) and Frank de Wit (Heemskerk) are missing due to injuries.
The Alkmaarders have already qualified for the play-offs for European football, but may still take over the five. At the end of the ride, that position entitles you to a home game in the first play-off for European football and in the final if it is reached. The mutual difference between Twente and AZ is currently one point (54 to 53).
Ajax can become champion in just one way tonight. If the Amsterdammers beat FC Groningen and PSV loses to Heracles Almelo, the champagne can be uncorked in the Euroborg. In any other conceivable scenario, the decision will only fall next Sunday. Ajax then receives FC Twente and PSV then plays at the castle against Sparta Rotterdam.
Ajax won the last six league matches with FC Groningen: from and at home. In all those competitions, the Amsterdammers each came to at least three goals: 21 total. The last two away games ended in 1-3 and 2-3.
Welcome to our live blog. On this Wednesday, the tension in the title fight from the Eredivisie to the boiling point has risen. With two games to go, leader Ajax is only one point for attacker PSV. The Amsterdammers visit Groningen, while the Eindhoven players receive Heracles Almelo in their own house. AZ also plays against competitor FC Twente in Enschede.