Ajax v Dynamo Kyiv facts
Ajax and Dynamo Kyiv are both anticipating to lapse to a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre as they accommodate in Amsterdam in a initial leg of a play-offs.
• Four-time European champions Ajax have not featured in a organisation theatre given 2014/15, their fifth unbroken appearance; a Dutch club’s final 3 UEFA Champions League campaigns have all finished in a subordinate rounds. Dynamo, meanwhile, reached a organisation theatre in 2016/17, though also mislaid out in subordinate final season.
Previous meetings
• The teams have met in usually one European tie before to this one – in a 2010/11 UEFA Champions League play-offs. Ajax emerged winning 3-2 on aggregate, sketch 1-1 divided in a initial leg before a 2-1 success in Amsterdam.
• Dynamo’s Denys Garmash was sent off in a Kyiv compare and is one of 4 players who was concerned in that tie who is still during their particular clubs. Siem De Jong played in both games for Ajax, with Daley Blind an new Ajax surrogate in Amsterdam. Dynamo haven goalkeeper Denys Boyko was on a dais for both games.
Form guide
Ajax
• Second in a Eredivisie final season, a Amsterdammers have done 13 prior appearances in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage, nonetheless they have not progressed from their territory given 2005/06.
• Ajax’s 2017/18 European debate lasted usually dual ties, losing to Nice in a UEFA Champions League third subordinate turn before a 4-2 total better opposite Rosenborg (0-1 home, 2-3 away) that extended their winless run in continental foe to 6 matches (D2 L4).
• However, Ajax are dominant in Europe in 2018/19, violence Sturm Graz home (2-0) and divided (3-1) in a second subordinate turn and Standard Liège 5-2 on total in a third subordinate turn (2-2 away, 3-0 home).
• That 2010/11 win opposite Dynamo is Ajax’s usually total feat in a UEFA Champions League play-off. Their solitary other coming during this theatre finished in a 5-2 total detriment to Russian bar Rostov in 2016/17.
• Ajax have won both home matches opposite Ukrainian clubs, a other a 2-1 extra-time better of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 second leg – nonetheless they bent out on divided goals carrying mislaid 1-0 in Ukraine.
Dynamo
• Ukrainian Premier League runners-up in 2017/18, Dynamo are behest to play in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre for a 17th time, and a third in 4 seasons.
• The Kyiv bar mislaid to Swiss side Young Boys on divided goals in final season’s third subordinate turn (3-1 home, 0-2 away). They changed into a UEFA Europa League, where they went on to a turn of 16 before losing 4-2 on total to Lazio.
• This is Dynamo’s third UEFA Champions League play-off; aside from that 2010 better by Ajax, they kick Borussia Mönchengladbach 4-3 on total in 2012/13. They have won all 3 of their UEFA Europa League play-offs.
• Dynamo overcame Slavia Praha in this season’s third subordinate turn (1-1 away, 2-0 home). That extended their run of unbroken divided European draws to three; they are but a win in their final 4 European divided matches (D3 L1).
• The home win opposite Slavia finished a run of 5 European matches but a victory, home and divided (D4 L1).
• Dynamo have won on their final dual visits to a Netherlands, during Feyenoord in a 2012/13 third subordinate turn (1-0) and AZ Alkmaar in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre (2-1).
Links and trivia
• Aleksandr Khatskevich was in assign of Belarus for a 4-1 2018 FIFA World Cup subordinate better divided to a Netherlands.
• Dynamo’s Tamás Kádár played in a Eredivisie for Roda in 2012/13.
• Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scored in a Netherlands’ 3-0 accessible better of Ukraine in 2008 in Rotterdam.
• Huntelaar also got dual goals as a Netherlands kick Ukraine 3-0 in a 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final in Portugal.