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Sparta Rotterdam vs Ajax Prediction & Betting tips
Ajax starts its new season with an away match in Rotterdam. Only it is not the top match against Feyenoord that is on the role for the team from Amsterdam, but the game against Sparta.
Sparta:
Sparta Rotterdam managed to achieve its most important goal last season. Henk Fräser and his team had the priority not to be relegated in any case. In the end, Sparta took 33 points, with which they managed to finish well above the bottom three. Ragnar Ache saw his good performance rewarded with a transfer to Eintracht Frankfurt. As a replacement, Sparta took Reda Kharchouch, who scored twenty times at Telstar in the Kitchen Champion Division last year.
Kharchouch was injured in preparation, however, and now Fräser has the problem that he has to start the season without a real finisher. As with many other clubs, Sparta has no money for the taking, so the club’s leadership will need to be creative in attracting offensive reinforcements. For the time being, Lennart Thy and Mohammed Rayhi seem to form the striker couple. Fräser will probably let his team play in a 4-4-2 formation, just like last season.
Ajax:
Ajax did not have its best period, just before the season was stopped by the KNVB. The team from Amsterdam still had every chance of renewing the national title, but AZ Alkmaar was on the fining rope, while Feyenoord, which performed strongly at that time, was also in the race as an outsider. However, after 26 rounds, the KNVB put a line under the season. Although Ajax was not crowned national champion, it did receive the lucrative starting ticket for the group stage of the Champions League.
In the summer break some important players left the Johan Cruijff Arena. Donny van der Beek, Joel Veltman and Hakim Ziyech will try their luck in England. It is up to coach Erik ten Hag to form a new winning team. In the preparation Ajax showed that it was on the right track. In the practice campaign Ajax delivered some strong matches, although of course the well-known reservation must be made. Zakaria Labyad seems to have taken his chance in the preparation. He makes a restart as a wandering center forward.
Sparta Rotterdam vs Ajax head to head matches
19.01.20 ERE Ajax Sparta Rotterdam 2 : 1
01.09.19 ERE Sparta Rotterdam Ajax 1 : 4
18.03.18 ERE Sparta Rotterdam Ajax 2 : 5
14.10.17 ERE Ajax Sparta Rotterdam 4 : 0
12.02.17 ERE Ajax Sparta Rotterdam 2 : 0