As head coach of AZ, Martens met Ajax five times to be precise and won four of those encounters. Once it became equal. “That doesn’t say much about me. We are a team that has been doing well against Ajax lately. But these kinds of figures could of course also excite Ajax again. Last year we won against them in the cup and we are now really keen to repeat this,” said Martens.
Different kind of Ajax
“We have of course had different Ajax against us. By that I mean different trainers. This Ajax is very different from the Ajax of three months ago,” Martens remembers the 0-2 victory in the Johan Cruijff Arena. “We will have to be prepared differently this time.”