28 JAN 2026; Ajax - Olymiacos; Chamions Leage

[Orange14]

Final chance to pick up some points in a dreadful campaign

[souras84]

Olympiakos is a classic cautious, pressing and counter attacking team built by their Spanish manager. I really hope our scouting team do take them seriously. If we try to play high press or dominating football, we might end up defeated. Let's not underestimate them and get carried away by our home fans, but let's fight and go for the result

[Amol]

Lineup announced with the following changes -
1. Sutalo at RCB in place of Bouwman,
2.Wijndal starts at LB, and
3. Gloukh at whatever position he plays in

[Amol]

Just noticed that Orange14 had some serious issues with creating the title of this thread

[Amol]

Gloukh should've put that one in. He was in the 6 yard box with only the keeper to beat.

[Amol]

DOLBERGGGGGGGGGG!!!! Godts beats his man and crosses to Dolberg!

Ruled offside. Ugh

[SPL]

Alas this game is not on live tv in Uk. TNT have shown every CL game live but as all 18 games ko at the same time tonight and they only have 10 channels we are not on . Could have paid for their streaming service but only found out 5 mins before ko so have not bothered.

[Amol]

An Olympiakos player just missed his clearance in the box and the ball clearly touched his arm. VAR check and no penalty.

[Orange14]

Best half of football so far this season. I have NO idea why that was not hands ball against the Greeks.

[Orange14]

Just noticed that Orange14 had some serious issues with creating the title of this thread

You think I can spell good?

[Tom_]

It’s looking like the traditional Ajax CL knockout to me! Dominate the game, fail to score, go down 1–0. Hope I’m wrong.

[Amol]

Can't believe we're down 0-1. Ref is making most of the 50/50 calls against us.

[Amol]

Iceman just scored from a penalty. 1-1. Game on!!

[SPL]

A poor end to a poor series .Just as well I did not watch it but will wait for your comments.

[Tom_]

I thought they played ok. As soon as Gloukh missed that chance from 6 m in the first half, I knew they would lose.

[Orange14]

Euro football is over for this season. Two mistakes gave Olympiacos two 2nd half goals while Dolberg was on target from the spot for Ajax. Despite the loss this was the best Ajax have played this season. They spent a lot of time in the offensive half and created some scoring opportunities. Dolberg was a toe or so offsides on a nice pass by Godts, Oscar missed what should have been a sure goal and Weghorst had a late header cleared off the line. The defense was decent other than on the first goal where there seemed to be confusion about what was going on. Gaaei was not tight enough on the 2nd goal that came off a corner (Ajax did a good job defending corners other than that one). There were still too many cheap give aways. I thought Regeer had a very fine match for Ajax. Godts was rather mediocre other than the pass to Dolberg. Let's hope the team can take something from this game and start winning in the league.

One thing I don't understand is that the hand ball in the first half by the Greek defender was far worse than the one in the 2nd where the penalty was given. Go figure.

Player Ratings:

Jaros (6.5) - did not have any difficult saves to make and don't know if he could have done better on the 2nd goal, his kicking was OK and he distributed the ball well in the back
Gaaei (6) - other than poor defending on the corner, he was more than decent on the night
Sutalo (6.5) - rare start and he was OK
Baas (6) - thought he was not up to his usual standard, had several really poor passes
Wijndal (6.5) - had a couple of good tackles and was always looking to go forward
Baas (7.5) - I thought he was rock solid on the night and the best player for Ajax
Steur (6.5) - except for a couple of poor passes that were intercepted, a really good shift, he is the starter for the next several years
Klaassen (6)- an above average performance
Oscar (6) - really should have scored and was OK but still loses the ball when in a crowd
Dolberg (7) - solid penalty and was good at taking the ball down
Godts (5.5) - just a shade over mediocre, he really should be much better but seems not to see the field as well as he should
Bounida (NR) - on with 20 minutes to go and had little impact
Edvardssen (NR) - same as Bounida
Mokio (NR) - had one or two good plays and one or two poor ones
Weghorst (NR) - nice header but saved off the line
Nash (NR) - CL debut for a promising winger

I'm of the opinion that Ajax should not spend any money this transfer window except for maybe Zinchenko (if it does go through). The club has enough players to get through the league and and regroup this summer under Jordi.

[Tom_]

One thing I don't understand is that the hand ball in the first half by the Greek defender was far worse than the one in the 2nd where the penalty was given. Go figure.

It’s something to do with the fact that it was a deflection after he’d already played the ball. But I don’t understand this rule either.

[SPL]

Sutalo getting praise on Dutch side and on Showtime .Still dont understand why Itakura was signed as Sutalo is still the better player and Itakura is nothing special and costs way too much.

Feyenoord are as poor as us and we should still be able to get 2nd place. Other positive Kroes has 2 more full days before he leaves.He and Mislintat have financially and squad wise ruined our club .I would not want either of them running a local amateur club they are that bad