Match Report
Club Brugge (11th, 19 pts) visited Ajax (1st, 28 pts) with 9 points between them. On recent form Club Brugge sat only 428th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 11th overall. Per game in the league, Ajax were scoring 2.82 and conceding 1, Club Brugge 3 and 0.63, against a competition average of 1.93 goals per team per game.
Ajax entered with three wins in a row. Club Brugge had not lost in 5 games, having scored in 12 consecutive games.
The match was played at Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam (capacity 2,250). Half-time and full-time told different stories: Ajax led 2-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 3-1.