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Sturm Graz vs Ajax Prediction & Betting tips
During the week the return matches will be played in the 2nd qualifying round of the Champions League. On Wednesday evening, there will be a return match between Sturm Graz and Ajax Amsterdam in the Mercury Arena in Graz. The Dutch runner-up had won the first leg 2-0 and is now facing the move into the third round. Surprisingly, the balance of Austrian clubs against Ajax Amsterdam is balanced. In 14 duels there were five wins, four draws and five defeats. Ajax lost 1-1 to Salzburg in the Europa League semi-finals in 2014 and 4-5 to Rapid Wien in the 2015 Champions League qualifiers. But after the first leg win almost everything speaks for the Dutch this time. For the second leg between Sturm Graz and Ajax Amsterdam we found a tip with great odds.
Sturm Graz:
Sturm Graz finished last season in Austria as runner-up, 13 points behind RB Salzburg. At home, the Grazer won 13 out of 18 games and lost only three times. In the Cup final for the ÖFB Cup storm could beat the big Salzburgers and win the final 1-0 after extra time. It was the fifth cup win for the Styrians. Since January 1, Sturm Graz has been coached by Heiko Vogel, who took over the office from the success of Franco Foda, who became national coach of the Austrian national football team. After the successful recent season, the players aroused desires with other teams. So left before the season top scorer Deni Alar and Marvin Potzmann, James Jeggo, Christian Schoissengeyr, Bright Edomwonyi or Thorsten Röcher the club. With Peter Zulj, the whereabouts are still in the balance. The 25-year-old midfielder played a superb season. A million change overseas is imminent. With the club, the player has but the agreement that he denies both games against Ajax still for Graz. Sturm is to be strengthened with new entrants such as Philipp Hosiner, Anastasios Avlonitis and Filipe Ferreira. In the preparation, the team of coach Heiko Vogel won against teams like Voitsberg, Domžale, Copenhagen, Middlesbrough and Gnas. There were defeats against Videoton and Krasnodar. The first two competitive games of the new season could win the Grazer. In the first Cup round, they sat down 2-0 against the Landesligisten Siegendorf. The newly formed bird Elf completed the start in the Bundesliga in Austria on Saturday before their own audience against promoted TSV Hartberg. But in the 3-2 win storm was very difficult.
Coach Vogel had changed his side to four positions compared to the first leg against Ajax. But the team did not get involved at first. The cup winner and runner-up came against the climber again and again in distress. At the score of 2: 2, the home side could have fallen behind. The Styrians also had great problems in the Champions League qualification first leg at Amsterdam. The Dutch were better in every way. They played faster and more accurately, were more aggressive and courageous and had more luck in the crucial scenes. Sturm was pushed back too far in 5-4-1. With phased only 25 percent possession there was little more relief. After the break, Vogel switched to a 4-4-2. But that did not help much. A negligent chance exploitation of Ajax prevented a higher victory. The unlucky person of the day was Graz keeper Jörg Siebenhandl. At 0: 1 he looked more than unhappy. Later he held a penalty, but was unlucky that the rebound Lasse Beautiful rolled right in front of his legs and this hit the final score. After the game, the runner-up from Austria had to endure a lot of ridicule from the Dutch press. Storm is just a collection of mediocre footballers, wrote the “De Telegraaf”. Those “mediocre footballers” are seen in the match Sturm Graz against Ajax Amsterdam the betting odds at a disadvantage for potential bets. Nevertheless, a tip on the opponent Ajax odds of 2.00, which does not speak just for a rock solid favorites role of the Dutch.
Ajax Amsterdam:
Ajax finished second last season in the Dutch Eredivisie, four points behind champions PSV Eindhoven. With 89 goals, Amsterdam had the best offense in the league. 33 goals were the best defense in the Netherlands at the same time. Away you could win 11 of 17 games. But at home there were two defeats, while Eindhoven finished the season in the home stadium without defeat. Ajax has been 33 times champions in the Netherlands. The last title is four years back. In the 2016/17 season Ajax reached the final of the Europa League, but lost the final, then under coach Peter Bosz, 0-2 against Manchester United. Sport Director Marc Overmars has already invested 60 million euros in new acquisitions in the current transfer period. These were put in players like Dusan Tadic, Daley Blind and Zakaria Labyad. World Cup participants Hakim Ziyech (Morocco), Nicolas Tagliafico (Argentina) as well as the Danes Lasse Schöne and Kasper Dolberg are in training only recently. In the preparatory games for the new season, the team of coach Erik ten Hag did hard. You could win only with 7: 0 against the Dutch second division VV Sint Bavo. After all, there was a draw against Steaua Bucharest and Wolverhampton. Amsterdam lost as a loser to Al Ahly, Nordsjaelland, RSC Anderlecht and Konyaspor. The new season of Eredivisie will start on 11th August.
Sturm Graz vs Ajax head to head matches
25.07.18 CL Ajax Sturm Graz 2 : 0