St. Liege – Ajax Prediction & Picks (07.08.2018)

Standard and Ajax meet at Stade Maurice Dufrasne, in a match for this phase of the UEFA Champions League (3rd Qualifying Round). There is only record of 2 recent direct matches between these two teams: on 08-12-2016, which ended with a draw by (1-1), and on 29-09-2016, which ended with Ajax’s victory by (1 -0).

Standard:

The home team plays its first match in this edition of the UEFA Champions League with the intention of taking advantage of the home advantage to achieve a positive result. In the last match they played, for the Pro League, they tied with Waasland-Beveren away by (0-0). In the last 10 home matches Standard has 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. Their attack has scored regularly, since they have scored goals in 8 of the last 10 matches.

Standard Liege is a Belgian club that has won the Belgian title ten times, also has eight titles in the Beker van Belgie and four Belgian Super Cups conquered. In the 2017/18 season, Standard Liege finished the regular season of 1st Klasse in sixth place, qualifying for the play-offs, which ended in the second place, which allowed access to the previous rounds of the Champions League, entering the third round, against the strong Ajax Dutch team. We think it will be a very intense game, with the two teams looking for goals, which should provide an open game with goals.

Ajax:

The visiting team reached this phase of the UEFA Champions League (3rd Qualifying Round) after having eliminated Sturm Graz, with a (1-3) away victory and a (2-0) win at home in the previous round. . In the last 10 away matches Ajax has won 5, tied 2 and lost 3. The team has conceded goals in 7 of the last 10 matches, so their defense needs to improve, but their attack has scored regularly, since he scored goals in 7 of the last 10 matches. In their away matches there is a tendency for goals, since 18 of the last 26 matches have ended with Over 2,5 goals.

Ajax is a Dutch club that has thirty-three titles of the Eredivisie (Dutch Championship), eighteen titles of the KNVB Beker (Dutch Cup) and eight titles of the Dutch Supercup, in addition to these titles, the team also has tradition in the European tests, as well as three UEFA Champions League titles (1970/71, 1971/72 and 1972/73), in the time of Johan Cruyff, the club managed to win the Champions League again. UEFA in 1994/95, in addition to other international titles. The Ajax was runner-up of the Eredivisie in 2017/18, thus conquering the right to dispute the previous rounds of the Champions League. In seventeen games away from home in the Eredivisie of 2017/18, he won eleven, tied three and lost three, scored goals in fifteen of those matches and fifteen times the final score had more than 1.5 goals.