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Ajax Amsterdam 1-2 Utrecht - May 10, 1998 / Eredivisie 1997/1998

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Eredivisie 1997/1998 - Round 34

Amsterdam ArenA - Amsterdam - Netherlands

May 10, 1998

1 - 2

Utrecht

Assist by Benni McCarthyShota Arveladze

69'

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46' - Substitution Kofi Mensahis substituted by Shota Arveladze46

60' - Red card Mario Melchiot60

69' - Goal Shota Arveladze69

76' - Substitution Richard Witschgeis substituted by Gerald Sibon76

82' - Substitution Daniis substituted by Andriy Demchenko82

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Ajax Amsterdam

1 - 2

Utrecht

Ajax Amsterdam Utrecht

Team line-ups

Ajax Amsterdam

Grim

Fred Grim

Netherlands

B.date17/08/1965

Age32 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Mensah46

Kofi Mensah

Ghana

B.date08/03/1978

Age20 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Sier

Tom Sier

Netherlands

B.date01/01/1970

Age28 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Melchiot60

Mario Melchiot

Netherlands

B.date04/11/1976

Age21 years

H1m88

positionRight full-back

Rudy

Andrzej Rudy

Poland

B.date15/10/1965

Age32 years

H1m73

positionDefensive Midfielder

Witschge76

Richard Witschge

Netherlands

B.date20/09/1969

Age28 years

H1m84

positionLeft central midfielder

Litmanen

Jari Litmanen

Finland

B.date20/02/1971

Age27 years

H1m81

positionOffensive Midfielder

Dani82

Dani

Portugal

B.date02/11/1976

Age21 years

H1m83

positionVersatile Forward

De Boer

Ronald De Boer

Netherlands

B.date15/05/1970

Age27 years

H1m82

positionRight Winger

McCarthy

Benni McCarthy

South Africa

B.date12/11/1977

Age20 years

H1m82

positionStriker

Hoekstra

Peter Hoekstra

Netherlands

B.date04/04/1973

Age25 years

H1m89

positionLeft Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Fred Grim		32	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kofi Mensah	46	20	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tom Sier		28	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mario Melchiot	60	21	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Andrzej Rudy		32	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Richard Witschge	76	28	180	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jari Litmanen		27	191	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dani	82	21	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ronald De Boer		27	282	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Benni McCarthy		20	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Peter Hoekstra		25	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

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			Age	Match num	Note
M	Andriy Demchenko	82	21	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gerald Sibon	76	24	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Shota Arveladze	6946	25	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Fred Grim

Edwin Van der Sar

OUT

Andrzej Rudy

Sunday Oliseh

OUT

Dani

Shota Arveladze

OUT

Benni McCarthy

Tijjani Babangida

OUT

Kofi Mensah

Frank De Boer

OUT

Tom Sier

Michael Laudrup

OUT

Peter Hoekstra

Danny Blind

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Morten Olsen

Success rate in this team:

78 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

52 %

Olsen vs Utrecht

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on May 10, 1998

Olsen vs Wotte

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on May 10, 1998

Manager

Age

Match num

Mark Wotte

Success rate in this team:

38 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Wotte vs Ajax Amsterdam

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on May 10, 1998

Wotte vs Olsen

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on May 10, 1998

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Key figures

Utrecht keeps its 9 consecutive matches without a draw away from home running (since 11/02/1998). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 02/05/1997-23/11/1997 time period (10 matches).

End of streak for Ajax Amsterdam after 12 consecutive matches without a loss vs Utrecht (since 23/02/1992). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 17/03/1991 (8 matches)

End of streak for Ajax Amsterdam after 12 matches with only one goal conceded at most vs Utrecht (since 23/02/1992). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 25/03/1979 (10 matches)

Read the next 10 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VAjax Amsterdam 2-1 NAC Breda11/03/1998

VAjax Amsterdam 6-1 Volendam14/03/1998

VAjax Amsterdam 4-0 Sparta Rotterdam08/04/1998

VAjax Amsterdam 7-2 Heerenveen11/04/1998

VAjax Amsterdam 6-1 Willem II23/04/1998

VAjax Amsterdam 3-0 Heerenveen07/05/1998

Overall

VAjax Amsterdam 7-2 Heerenveen11/04/1998

VFC Groningen 2-4 Ajax Amsterdam19/04/1998

VAjax Amsterdam 6-1 Willem II23/04/1998

LVitesse Arnhem 2-0 Ajax Amsterdam26/04/1998

VDe Graafschap 1-8 Ajax Amsterdam03/05/1998

VAjax Amsterdam 3-0 Heerenveen07/05/1998

Current form

Away

LHeerenveen 1-0 Utrecht26/03/1998

LWillem II 3-2 Utrecht29/03/1998

VFC Twente 1-2 Utrecht05/04/1998

LNAC Breda 2-1 Utrecht11/04/1998

VFC Groningen 1-2 Utrecht26/04/1998

LNEC Nijmegen 1-0 Utrecht03/05/1998

Overall

VFC Twente 1-2 Utrecht05/04/1998

VUtrecht 1-0 Fortuna Sittard08/04/1998

LNAC Breda 2-1 Utrecht11/04/1998

DUtrecht 0-0 De Graafschap19/04/1998

VFC Groningen 1-2 Utrecht26/04/1998

LNEC Nijmegen 1-0 Utrecht03/05/1998

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	6	2
Unbeaten streak	6	2
Drawless streak	31	15
Scoring streak	33	2
Invincibility streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	1	1
Drawless streak	8	2
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	8	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

33	Number of games (Competition total)	33
16	Number of games (Home / Away)	16
29	Victories (Competition total)	12
15	Victories (Home / Away)	4
2	Draws (Competition total)	4
0	Draws (Home / Away)	1
2	Losses (Competition total)	17
1	Losses (Home / Away)	11

Goals

111	Goals scored (Competition total)	54
58	Goals scored (Home / Away)	15
20	Goals conceded (Competition total)	63
9	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	32
3.36	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.64
3.63	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.94
0.61	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.91
0.56	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2

Betting aid

21	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	21
11	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	10
19	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
11	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
1	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	7
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	5
13	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	20
5	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	9
1-0 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (3 times)

Bookings

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

Key players

Shota Arveladze	24 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	-
Shota Arveladze	15 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	-
Jari Litmanen	4 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	-
Jari Litmanen	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	-
Ronald De Boer	10 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	-
Shota Arveladze	6 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	-
Ronald De Boer	5 goals, 6 assists during the last 7 matches	The fittest player	-

Historical head to head

Home

28 matches

26 v

2 d

0 l

87 gf

15 ga

Away

30 matches

17 v

8 d

5 l

59 gf

28 ga

Total

58 matches

43 v

10 d

5 l

146 gf

43 ga

Historical head to head

Home

30 matches

5 v

8 d

17 l

28 gf

59 ga

Away

28 matches

0 v

2 d

26 l

15 gf

87 ga

Total

58 matches

5 v

10 d

43 l

43 gf

146 ga

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 0	October 24, 1976
Home	7 - 0	October 24, 1976

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 1	October 27, 1991
Away	No success yet

Latest head to head

August 31, 1997 - Eredivisie 1997/1998

Utrecht

1 - 7

Ajax Amsterdam logo Ajax Amsterdam

March 09, 1997 - Eredivisie 1996/1997

Ajax Amsterdam

1 - 0

Utrecht

October 12, 1996 - Eredivisie 1996/1997

Utrecht

1 - 1

Ajax Amsterdam logo Ajax Amsterdam

December 17, 1995 - Eredivisie 1995/1996

Utrecht

0 - 3

Ajax Amsterdam logo Ajax Amsterdam

August 20, 1995 - Eredivisie 1995/1996

Ajax Amsterdam

4 - 0

Utrecht

Best historical scorers against Utrecht

Ruud Geels	15 goals	1975 - 1978
Johan Cruijff	8 goals	1970 - 1983
Johnny Bosman	6 goals	1984 - 1987
Jari Litmanen	6 goals	1993 - 1997
Dick Schoenaker	6 goals	1977 - 1984
Dennis Bergkamp	5 goals	1988 - 1993

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/12/1970. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Ajax Amsterdam

Rob de Wit	1 goal	1984 - 1984
Frans Adelaar	1 goal	1983 - 1983
Harry van den Ham	1 goal	1984 - 1984

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/12/1970. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Utrecht

Danny Blind	22 matches	1986 - 1997
Piet Schrijvers	19 matches	1974 - 1983
Dick Schoenaker	18 matches	1976 - 1985
Frank De Boer	18 matches	1988 - 1997
Ruud Krol	17 matches	1971 - 1980
Stanley Menzo	17 matches	1985 - 1993

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/12/1970. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Ajax Amsterdam

Ton du Chatinier	2 matches	1983 - 1984
Gert Kruys	2 matches	1983 - 1984
Koos van Tamelen	2 matches	1983 - 1984
Frans Adelaar	2 matches	1983 - 1984
Leo van Veen	2 matches	1983 - 1984
Wim Flight	2 matches	1983 - 1984