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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS OACA Spyros Louis - Athens Tuesday 27 November 2018 18.55CET (19.55 local time) AEK Athens FC Group E - Matchday 5 AFC Ajax Last updated 09/05/2019 17:22CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Squad list 8 Head coach 11 Match officials 12 Fixtures and results 13 Match-by-match lineups 17 Competition facts 20 Team facts 21 Legend 23 1 AEK Athens FC - AFC Ajax Tuesday 27 November 2018 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit OACA Spyros Louis, Athens Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tagliafico 46, 90, Van 19/09/2018 GS AFC Ajax - AEK Athens FC 3-0 Amsterdam de Beek 77 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/12/1994 GS AFC Ajax - AEK Athens FC 2-0 Amsterdam Oulida 8, 78 Savevski 30; 28/09/1994 GS AEK Athens FC - AFC Ajax 1-2 Athens Litmanen 33, Kluivert 65 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AEK Athens FC 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 1 7 AFC Ajax 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 7 1 AEK Athens FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers PSV Eindhoven - AEK Athens Bouma 51, Robben 05/11/2003 GS1 2-0 Eindhoven FC 63 AEK Athens FC - PSV 21/10/2003 GS1 0-1 Athens Lucius 37 Eindhoven UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Nikolaidis 14, 75, 3-3 29/09/1998 R1 AEK Athens FC - Vitesse Athens Kopitsis 69; Machlas agg: 3-6 11, 17, Reuser 55 Laros 49, Perovic 52, 15/09/1998 R1 Vitesse - AEK Athens FC 3-0 Arnhem Machlas 89 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers PSV Eindhoven - AEK Athens 3-0 04/11/1992 R2 Eindhoven Romário 5, 51, 74 FC agg: 3-1 AEK Athens FC - PSV 21/10/1992 R2 1-0 Athens Dimitriadis 53 Eindhoven AFC Ajax - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/11/2016 GS AFC Ajax - Panathinaikos FC 2-0 Amsterdam Schöne 40, Tete 50 Berg 5; Traoré 33, 15/09/2016 GS Panathinaikos FC - AFC Ajax 1-2 Athens Riedewald 67 2 AEK Athens FC - AFC Ajax Tuesday 27 November 2018 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit OACA Spyros Louis, Athens UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-2 Athanasiadis 4; 03/08/2016 QR3 PAOK FC - AFC Ajax Salonika agg: 2-3 Klaassen 45+1 (P), 88 Dolberg 58; Djalma 26/07/2016 QR3 AFC Ajax - PAOK FC 1-1 Amsterdam Campos 27 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Vieirinha 16, Salpingidis 56, Ivić 3-3 04/08/2010 QR3 PAOK FC - AFC Ajax Salonika 90+1; Luis Suárez 48, agg: 4-4 ag S. De Jong 50, Lindgren 55 Luis Suárez 13; Ivić 28/07/2010 QR3 AFC Ajax - PAOK FC 1-1 Amsterdam 73 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Witschge 36, Gorrè 04/11/1998 GS AFC Ajax - Olympiacos FC 2-0 Amsterdam 88 21/10/1998 GS Olympiacos FC - AFC Ajax 1-0 Athens Alexandris 38 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-3 Litmanen 4, 77, 17/04/1996 SF Panathinaikos FC - AFC Ajax Athens agg: 1-3 Wooter 86 03/04/1996 SF AFC Ajax - Panathinaikos FC 0-1 Amsterdam Warzycha 87 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Kapouranis 58; 05/11/1986 R2 Olympiacos FC - AFC Ajax Athens agg: 1-5 Wouters 90 Bosman 6, Rijkaard 22/10/1986 R2 AFC Ajax - Olympiacos FC 4-0 Amsterdam 43, Van Basten 52, Mühren 83 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Anastopoulos 94 ET, 28/09/1983 R1 Olympiacos FC - AFC Ajax Athens agg 2-0 (aet) 118 ET 14/09/1983 R1 AFC Ajax - Olympiacos FC 0-0 Amsterdam European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/06/1971 F AFC Ajax - Panathinaikos FC 2-0 London Van Dijk 5, Haan 87 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AEK Athens FC 4 1 1 2 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 9 1 1 7 5 19 3 AEK Athens FC - AFC Ajax Tuesday 27 November 2018 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit OACA Spyros Louis, Athens Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AFC Ajax 9 5 3 1 8 4 2 2 1 1 0 0 18 10 5 3 30 13 4 AEK Athens FC - AFC Ajax Tuesday 27 November 2018 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit OACA Spyros Louis, Athens Match background AEK Athens and Ajax both need a win but for very different reasons when they meet in Greece in the penultimate round of Group E fixtures. • While unbeaten Ajax sit second in the standings, their 3-0 matchday one win against the Greek side – achieved thanks to second-half goals from Nicolás Tagliafico (2) and Donny van de Beek – was the first of four defeats for AEK, who can no longer finish in the top two. • Ajax, who hold a four-point advantage over third-placed Benfica, will be through to the round of 16 for the first time in 13 years with a victory or if Benfica fail to win away to section leaders Bayern München. AEK can still overtake Benfica but need to get to within three points of the Portuguese club before they face off in Lisbon on matchday six. Previous meetings • The sides' only fixtures before this season came in the group stage of Ajax's victorious 1994/95 UEFA Champions League campaign. The Dutch side won both fixtures, recording a 2-1 away victory in September 1994 and a 2-0 win in Amsterdam in December. • Edwin van der Sar and Marc Overmars – now Ajax's general director and director of player affairs respectively – played in both games. Danny Blind, father of Daley, was the Ajax captain for both matches. Form guide AEK • After being beaten at Ajax, AEK went down 2-3 at home to Benfica on matchday two before home and away defeats by Bayern, both 0-2. The current four-match losing streak is AEK's longest run of defeats in Europe since autumn 2011, when they suffered five straight reverses. • The Athens clubs have won only one of their last eight home European fixtures (D5 L2). • AEK were 14 European games unbeaten (W4 D10), home and away, before the loss at Ajax. • This is AEK's fifth UEFA Champions League group campaign, and all have ended at this stage. Their last appearance came in 2006/07, when they were unbeaten at home, picking up seven points in Athens and beating LOSC Lille and eventual champions AC Milan 1-0. • AEK have lost seven of their nine matches against Dutch clubs, winning one and drawing one; matchday one was their third successive defeat, all without scoring. At home their record is W1 D1 L2. • Greek champions for the 12th time in 2017/18 – their first championship success since 1994 – AEK entered this season's UEFA Champions League in the third qualifying round, where they defeated Celtic 3-2 on aggregate (1-1 away, 2-1 home) to reach the play-offs. There they overcame Hungarian club Vidi 3-2 over two games (2-1 away, 1-1 home). • The home win against Celtic ended AEK's run of eight successive draws in European competition. • Last season AEK lost to CSKA Moskva in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round and moved into the UEFA Europa League, where they were ultimately eliminated by Dynamo Kyiv in the round of 32 despite avoiding defeat in all ten of their matches in the competition (W2 D8). Ajax • After beating AEK in Amsterdam, Ajax produced another creditable performance on matchday two to earn a 1-1 draw at Bayern. They then took four points off Benfica thanks to a 1-0 home success and 1-1 away draw. • Second in the Eredivisie last season, Ajax are in the UEFA Champions League group stage for the 14th time, but the first since 2014/15. Then their campaign ended in the group stage, for the fifth year in a row; they have not progressed from their section since 2005/06. • Ajax's 2017/18 European campaign lasted only two ties, losing to Nice in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round before a 4-2 aggregate defeat against Rosenborg (0-1 home, 2-3 away) that extended their winless run in continental competition to six matches (D2 L4). • However, Ajax are unbeaten in Europe in 2018/19 – a run of ten matches. Before the group stage they beat Sturm Graz home (2-0) and away (3-1) in the second qualifying round and Standard Liège 5-2 on aggregate in the third qualifying round (2-2 away, 3-0 home) before overcoming Dynamo Kyiv 3-1 in the play-offs (3-1 home, 0-0 away).