If you only look at the ranking of the Eredivisie, you get the idea that Ajax is going to celebrate the 125-year-old birthday party with a 37th national title. But the game of the leader in the won match with Almere City (0-1) was so moderate that a lead of eight points on the wandering number two PSV does not yet provide certainty for the national title. Ajax still finds PSV, FC Utrecht, AZ and FC Twente. If the team plays like this as in Almere, next week a win at PEC Zwolle is anything but self -evident.
Kenneth Taylor already took the lead in the eighth minute (0-1). Then the leader had the worst performing team of the competition make the game. Almere City noticed that it is difficult to break through the often well -organized defense of Ajax. The brave playing home team got no further than a dangerous long shot from Junior Kadile. Moments later, Mika Godts was unable to double the lead of Ajax.
At Ajax, the injured Josip Sutalo, Wout Weghorst, Youri Regeer, Christian Rasmussen and Owen Wijndal were missing. Matheus again defended the goal of the visitors, so that Remko Pasveer got an extra game to recover from a back injury. Ajax escaped in the opening phase of the second half when Matheus had left his goal and Kornelius Hansen saw his lob end up on the bar. Moments later, James Lawrence worked a bet by Steven Berghuis from Almere’s goal.
Trainer Francesco Farioli brought Jordan Henderson in his team in the final phase Jordan Henderson. That turned out to be enough to win another duel without a goal. The goalkeeper of Ajax was only passed twice in the last nine competition matches. The team with the least goals in a season in the Eredivisie becomes quite often champion.