Football. Ua recalls the history of the European Cup confrontations between Ajax and Lyon.
Lyon can be considered a convenient opponent for Ajax, because the Amsterdam team has never lost to the Weavers in four matches, which were played by two semifinalists of the current European League. All four meetings happened in the group rounds of the Champions League, and Ajax recorded in his active 2 wins and 2 draws.
Champions League. First group round 17. 09. 2002 Ajax - Lyon 2: 1 Goals: Ibrahimovic, 11, 34 - Anderson, 84.
thirty. 10. 2002 Lyon - Ajax 0: 2 Goals: Pienaar, 7, van der Vaart, 90 + 3.
For the first time, Ajax and Lyon brought the draw in the first group round of the Champions League season-2002/2003. In Group D, except for the Dutch and French, were Inter and Rosenborg, with Ajax demonstrating an amazing stability of the results: 2 losses from the obvious favorite of Inter Quartet, 2 draws with outspoken outsider Rosenborg and 2 wins over main competitor in the fight for second place - Lyon.
In the first round of the house the victory was given to the Legends hard. Despite the double Ibrahimovic, the guests resisted to the last, but could only cut the score to a minimum. And in the penultimate round, Ajax repeated the victorious result with the only difference that the hosts did not score, and van der Vaart, who had removed all the questions, had already happened at the compensated time.
As a result, Lyon, who beat Inter in the course of the tournament and played with the Italians in a draw, scored as many points as Ajax, but lost to Amsterdam to continue the fight in the Champions League for personal meetings.
Champions League. Group round 14. 09. 2011 Ajax - Lyon 0: 0 22. eleven. 2011 Lyon - Ajax 0: 0 In the season-2011/2012 the teams exchanged seats.
Twice drawn with each other, they both lost to Real and both won against Zagreb Dynamo. However, the French were more ruthless with the Croats and ahead of the Dutch at the expense of the best difference scored and conceded goals.
As a result, in the Champions League continued to fight Lyon, and Ajax went to the Europa League.
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