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The return of the eighth finals of the Europa League is scheduled, and the Dutch it is a night sweats: Ajax against FC Copenhagen!
Ajax vs FC Copenhagen Prediction & Betting tips
Ajax :
Ajax is nothing else than winning this contest. Ajax have to make up a 2-1 deficit and Leicester City gave last week in the Champions League the right example. The British lost in Spain against Sevilla also 2-1, but managed to polish off that defeat by a 2-0 victory. For Ajax a 1-0 win plenty, but it will definitely be difficult.
Ajax have had a good rehearsal for the match against FC Copenhagen. In the first half, Ajax was still tricky with Twente, but in the second half were Younes (1x) and Dolberg (2x) Ajax shots past their opponents. In the second half we saw a bright Ajax Twente pushed back the half. Only after the 2-0 Dolberg took Ajax to give back, but gave no more great opportunities out of your hands. That same ferocity Ajax will face FC Copenhagen should impose on the mat to score.
In the first game it was just that intensity that was lacking at Ajax. Thereby Ajax was already after half a minute in a 1-0, and that’s a start that Ajax at all costs will have to avoid. That will have to do without captain Davy Klaassen, who is suspended after his yellow card against Copenhagen. He will probably be replaced by Donny Brook. Positive is that Joel Veltman and Davinson Sanchez again be returning from a suspension.
Probable lineup Ajax
Onana, Veltman, Sanchez, Viergever, Sink Counts, Clean, Brook, Ziyech, Younes, Dolberg, Traoré
FC Copenhagen :
In Denmark Copenhagen is sovereign. The team of coach Ståle Solbakken has a lead of as much as twelve points at number two Brondby IF. That means that Copenhagen can focus fully on European football, which the Danes generally do pretty nice. In the Champions League proved to Copenhagen for teams like Club Brugge, FC Porto and Leicester City hard to beat.
Copenhagen last weekend managed to strengthen its leading position again by some additional very routine to win 2-0 Esbjerg, the number thirteen of the competition. Solbakken opted for as many as six other basic players compared to the game against Ajax, although it also had to deal with a number of injured and suspended players.
Against Ajax Copenhagen will not can draw on a number of players in the starting normally. One of them is Rasmus Falk, and there Solbakken is certainly not happy. The geblesseerder attacker, according to the coach, the best player of Copenhagen since Christmas. Beside him is Mathias Zanka Jorgensen (former PSV) is suspended and injured striker Andrija Pavlovic (25 games, three goals). Nicolaj Thomsen is injured, but he did not in action this season.
Probable lineup FC Copenhagen
Olsen, Høgli, Ankersen, Johansson, Augustinsson, Kusk, Kvist, Matic, Toutouh, Santander, Cornelius
Ajax vs FC Copenhagen head to head
09.03.17 EL FC Copenhagen Ajax 2 : 1
23.08.06 CL Ajax FC Copenhagen 0 : 2
09.08.06 CL FC Copenhagen Ajax 1 : 2