Eredivisie · NED · Round 1

Sparta Rotterdam
1 - 3 Full time
Ajax

Sparta Stadion

Lineups

Sparta Rotterdam4-3-3
RK1Kortsmit
DD2Dumfries
RV6van Drongelen
MB5↓79'Breuer
FP3Pinteaux
RS4Sanusi
MD8Dijkstra
KD10Dougal
IC11↓68'Calero
ZE9El Azzouzi
LB7Brogno
JC1Cillessen
KT2Tete
JV3Veltman
JR4Riedewald
MD35Dijks
RB6↓78'Bazoer
DK10âš½Klaassen
NG27âš½Gudelj
AE7↓87'El-Ghazi
MC19⚽↓77'Cassierra
DS8âš½Sinkgraven
Ajax4-3-3

Sparta Rotterdam substitutes

17 Craig Goodwin ↑68'
16 Paco van Moorsel ↑79'
14 Bart Vriends
15 David Mendes
19 Finn Stokkers
18 Ilias Alhalft
20 Michael Verrips
30 Ricardo Kieboom
13 Rick Ketting
12 Sherel Floranus

Ajax substitutes

25 Kasper Dolberg ↑77'
30 Donny van de Beek ↑78'
16 Heiko Westermann ↑87'
33 Diederik Boer
20 Lasse Schøne
26 Nick Viergever
39 Richairo Zivkovic
17 Václav Cerny

Match events

5'Davy Klaassen assist: Anwar El-Ghazi 0 - 1âš½
8'Nemanja Gudelj (own goal) 1 - 1âš½
12'Mitchell Dijks
17'Joel Veltman
Second half
50'Florian Pinteaux
54'Daley Sinkgraven 1 - 2âš½
65'Mateo Cassierra assist: Daley Sinkgraven 1 - 3âš½
68'↑ Craig Goodwin ↓ Iván Calero⇄
76'Denzel Dumfries
77'↑ Kasper Dolberg ↓ Mateo Cassierra⇄
78'↑ Donny van de Beek ↓ Riechedly Bazoer⇄
79'↑ Paco van Moorsel ↓ Michel Breuer⇄
85'Joel Veltman
86'Ryan Sanusi
87'↑ Heiko Westermann ↓ Anwar El-Ghazi⇄
90'Heiko Westermann
90+3'Davy Klaassen

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Match details

CompetitionEredivisie
Kick-off (UTC)Sunday, 7 August 2016, 12:30 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

0Sparta Rotterdam wins0Draws1Ajax wins

0 past meetings on record.