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Ajax Amsterdam 2-0 FC Groningen - April 26, 2006 / Eredivisie CL Play-offs 2006

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Eredivisie CL Play-offs 2006 - 2nd round

Amsterdam ArenA - Amsterdam - Netherlands

April 26, 2006

38 060

2 - 0

FC Groningen

Assist by Klaas-Jan HuntelaarMarkus Rosenberg

Assist by Nourdin BoukhariAngelos Charisteas

68'

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9' - Goal Markus Rosenberg9

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59' - Substitution Markus Rosenbergis substituted by Ryan Babel59

63' - Substitution Mark-Jan Fledderusis substituted by Glen Salmon photo Koen van de Laak

63' - Substitution Yuri Cornelisseis substituted by Koen van de Laak

68' - Goal Angelos Charisteas68

73' - Substitution Nourdin Boukhariis substituted by Wesley Sneijder73

80' - Substitution Erik Nevlandis substituted by Evgen Levchenko

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Ajax Amsterdam

2 - 0

FC Groningen

Ajax Amsterdam FC Groningen

Team line-ups

Ajax Amsterdam

Stekelenburg

Maarten Stekelenburg

Netherlands

B.date22/09/1982

Age23 years

H1m94

positionGoalkeeper

Heitinga

Johnny Heitinga

Netherlands

B.date15/11/1983

Age22 years

H1m80

positionRight central defender

Lindenbergh

Olaf Lindenbergh

Netherlands

B.date06/02/1974

Age32 years

H1m80

positionLeft central defender

Vermaelen

Thomas Vermaelen

Belgium

B.date14/11/1985

Age20 years

H1m85

positionLeft central defender

Emanuelson

Urby Emanuelson

Netherlands

B.date16/06/1986

Age19 years

H1m76

positionLeft full-back

Boakye

Emmanuel Boakye

Ghana

B.date25/03/1985

Age21 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

Galasek

Tomas Galasek

Czech Republic

B.date15/01/1973

Age33 years

H1m81

positionMidfield

Boukhari73

Nourdin Boukhari

Morocco

B.date30/06/1980

Age25 years

H1m85

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Rosenberg959

Markus Rosenberg

Sweden

B.date27/09/1982

Age23 years

H1m84

positionStriker

Charisteas68

Angelos Charisteas

Greece

B.date09/02/1980

Age26 years

H1m90

positionForward

Huntelaar

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Netherlands

B.date12/08/1983

Age22 years

H1m86

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Maarten Stekelenburg		23	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Johnny Heitinga		22	117	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Olaf Lindenbergh		32	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Thomas Vermaelen		20	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Urby Emanuelson		19	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Emmanuel Boakye		21	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tomas Galasek		33	200	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nourdin Boukhari	73	25	98	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Markus Rosenberg	959	23	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Angelos Charisteas	68	26	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar		22	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

FC Groningen

Roorda

Bas Roorda

Netherlands

B.date13/02/1973

Age33 years

H1m92

positionGoalkeeper

Buijs

Danny Buijs

Netherlands

B.date21/06/1982

Age23 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

Luirink

Gijs Luirink

Netherlands

B.date12/09/1983

Age22 years

H1m89

positionCentral defender

Van der Linden

Antoine Van der Linden

Netherlands

B.date17/03/1976

Age30 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Sankoh

Gibril Sankoh

Sierra Leone

B.date15/05/1983

Age22 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Silva

Bruno Silva

Uruguay

B.date29/03/1980

Age26 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Matthijs

Paul Matthijs

Netherlands

B.date05/10/1976

Age29 years

H1m76

positionDefensive Midfielder

Fledderus63

Mark-Jan Fledderus

Netherlands

B.date14/12/1982

Age23 years

H1m78

positionLeft Midfielder

Cornelisse63

Yuri Cornelisse

Netherlands

B.date08/05/1975

Age30 years

H1m84

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Lindgren

Rasmus Lindgren

Sweden

B.date29/11/1984

Age21 years

H1m80

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Nevland80

Erik Nevland

Norway

B.date10/11/1977

Age28 years

H1m77

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Bas Roorda		33	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Danny Buijs		23	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gijs Luirink		22	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Antoine Van der Linden		30	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gibril Sankoh		22	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Bruno Silva		26	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Matthijs		29	158	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mark-Jan Fledderus	63	23	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Yuri Cornelisse	63	30	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Rasmus Lindgren		21	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Erik Nevland	80	28	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Wesley Sneijder	73	21	131	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Ryan Babel	59	19	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Evgen Levchenko	80	28	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Koen van de Laak	63	23	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Glen Salmon	63	28	116	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Angelos Charisteas

Mauro Rosales

OUT

Olaf Lindenbergh

Hedwiges Maduro

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Danny Blind

Success rate in this team:

60 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

60 %

Blind vs FC Groningen

3 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 26, 2006

Blind vs Jans

3 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 26, 2006

Manager

Age

Match num

Ron Jans

144

Success rate in this team:

37 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Jans vs Ajax Amsterdam

1 victory

0 draw

8 losses

Latest figure on April 26, 2006

Jans vs Blind

1 victory

0 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on April 26, 2006

Referee

Jan Wegereef

38 victories	9 draws	12 losses	Ajax Amsterdam59 matches	General total	FC Groningen36 matches	10 victories	7 draws	19 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Ajax Amsterdam1 match	Season total	FC Groningen1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on March 31, 2013					Latest figure on April 07, 2013

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Key figures

Ajax Amsterdam keeps its 5 matches with at least 2 goals scored running (since 12/04/2006).

Ajax Amsterdam keeps its 10 matches with at least one goal scored running (since 19/03/2006). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 11/12/2005-05/03/2006 time period (16 matches).

Ajax Amsterdam keeps its 7 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 02/04/2006).

Read the next 18 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DAjax Amsterdam 0-0 PSV Eindhoven11/03/2006

VAjax Amsterdam 4-1 Roda JC22/03/2006

DAjax Amsterdam 1-1 NAC Breda26/03/2006

VAjax Amsterdam 1-0 AZ Alkmaar09/04/2006

VAjax Amsterdam 2-1 Vitesse Arnhem12/04/2006

VAjax Amsterdam 3-0 Feyenoord Rotterdam20/04/2006

Overall

LRoda JC 2-1 Ajax Amsterdam02/04/2006

VAjax Amsterdam 1-0 AZ Alkmaar09/04/2006

VAjax Amsterdam 2-1 Vitesse Arnhem12/04/2006

VRKC Waalwijk 2-4 Ajax Amsterdam16/04/2006

VAjax Amsterdam 3-0 Feyenoord Rotterdam20/04/2006

VFeyenoord Rotterdam 2-4 Ajax Amsterdam23/04/2006

Current form

Away

VRBC Roosendaal 1-2 FC Groningen12/02/2006

LWillem II 5-0 FC Groningen04/03/2006

LADO Den Haag 2-1 FC Groningen11/03/2006

DNEC Nijmegen 2-2 FC Groningen25/03/2006

DPSV Eindhoven 1-1 FC Groningen09/04/2006

DFC Twente 1-1 FC Groningen16/04/2006

Overall

VFC Groningen 2-1 Vitesse Arnhem02/04/2006

DPSV Eindhoven 1-1 FC Groningen09/04/2006

VFC Groningen 2-1 Utrecht12/04/2006

DFC Twente 1-1 FC Groningen16/04/2006

VFC Groningen 3-1 AZ Alkmaar20/04/2006

LAZ Alkmaar 2-1 FC Groningen23/04/2006

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	3	5
Unbeaten streak	10	5
Drawless streak	3	6
Scoring streak	5	9
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	3	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	3	0
Winless streak	5	1
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	4	9
Conceding streak	10	11

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

15	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	52
2	FBDB index ranking (National)	5

Results

2	Number of games (Competition total)	2
1	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
2	Victories (Competition total)	1
1	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	1
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

7	Goals scored (Competition total)	4
3	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
2	Goals conceded (Competition total)	3
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
3.5	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2
3	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.5
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	2
1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	0
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
1	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	2
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
3-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

1	Yellow cards (Competition total)	6
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
1	Red cards (Competition total)	0
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Mauro Rosales	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Danny Buijs
Johnny Heitinga	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Mauro Rosales	2 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Erik Nevland
Mauro Rosales	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)		-
Mauro Rosales	2 goals, 2 assists during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Danny Buijs

Historical head to head

Home

33 matches

24 v

7 d

2 l

94 gf

32 ga

Away

30 matches

20 v

5 d

5 l

75 gf

35 ga

Total

63 matches

44 v

12 d

7 l

169 gf

67 ga

Historical head to head

Home

30 matches

5 v

5 d

20 l

35 gf

75 ga

Away

33 matches

2 v

7 d

24 l

32 gf

94 ga

Total

63 matches

7 v

12 d

44 l

67 gf

169 ga

Largest victory

Overall	9 - 0	January 06, 1974
Home	9 - 0	January 06, 1974

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	March 15, 1989
Away	2 - 0	May 03, 1994

Latest head to head

March 19, 2006 - Eredivisie 2005/2006

FC Groningen

3 - 2

Ajax Amsterdam logo Ajax Amsterdam

December 27, 2005 - Eredivisie 2005/2006

Ajax Amsterdam

3 - 2

FC Groningen logo FC Groningen

May 22, 2005 - Eredivisie 2004/2005

Ajax Amsterdam

2 - 1

FC Groningen logo FC Groningen

December 19, 2004 - Eredivisie 2004/2005

FC Groningen

0 - 4

Ajax Amsterdam logo Ajax Amsterdam

April 04, 2004 - Eredivisie 2003/2004

Ajax Amsterdam

2 - 1

FC Groningen logo FC Groningen

Best historical scorers against FC Groningen

Stefan Pettersson	9 goals	1988 - 1993
Wim Kieft	8 goals	1980 - 1982
Rafael van der Vaart	7 goals	2001 - 2005
Jari Litmanen	6 goals	1994 - 1998
Nikos Machlas	6 goals	2001 - 2002
Patrick Kluivert	5 goals	1994 - 1995

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 03/03/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Ajax Amsterdam

Ronald Koeman	5 goals	1981 - 1983
Rob McDonald	3 goals	1983 - 1985
Ron Jans	3 goals	1982 - 1983
Evgen Levchenko	2 goals	2005 - 2006
Arjen Robben	2 goals	2001 - 2002
Alves Velame Hugo	2 goals	2001 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 03/03/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs FC Groningen

Danny Blind	26 matches	1986 - 1998
John van't Schip	21 matches	1983 - 1992
Stanley Menzo	21 matches	1985 - 1994
Sonny Silooy	20 matches	1981 - 1996
Frank de Boer	19 matches	1988 - 1998
Frank Rijkaard	18 matches	1981 - 1994

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 11/09/1971. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Ajax Amsterdam

Karel Hiddink	11 matches	1980 - 1985
Jan Van Dijk	10 matches	1980 - 1991
Martin Drent	10 matches	2000 - 2004
Paul Matthijs	9 matches	2002 - 2006
Kurt Elshot	9 matches	2000 - 2005
Walter Walderboos	9 matches	1980 - 1984