On Sun Oct 16th, Ajax will play host to Excelsior in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched Eredivisie teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 12 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. Ajax sits at 2nd place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-4 loss against Napoli. Hirving Lozano struck first for Napoli in the 4th minute on a feed from Piotr Zieliński, then Giacomo Raspadori added another in the 16th minute. Ajax is on a hot streak lately, with 7 wins in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, 12th placed Excelsior, recorded a 1-1 draw against NEC. Landry Dimata struck first for NEC in the 59th minute, but Lazaros Lamprou got the equalizer for Excelsior in the 88th minute earning Excelsior at least a draw. Excelsior is looking for direction having 3 win and 5 losses in their last 10 matches.
This match will be the first time these two teams face eachother this season.
Excelsior hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last 5 matches are Redouan El Yaakoubi and Julian Baas, and they each have 1 goal. Davy Klaassen has been the most prolific scorer on Ajax in his last five matches with three goals
Steven Berghuis, Florian Grillitsch, Jorge Sánchez and Ahmetcan Kaplan are unavailable to play for Alfred Schreuder’s team, while Marouan Azarkan is unavailable to play for Marinus Dijkhuizen’s team.