Ajax v Tottenham Champions League Betting Tips & Predictions

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4 August, 2024

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Here are our top Ajax v Tottenham Champions League betting tips. Ajax beat Tottenham for the first time in competitive football in the first-leg, ensuring they go into this contest with an aggregate lead as well as the benefits of an away goal. The Dutch giants started the fixture in London having played two, lost two vs Spurs, but records and made to be broken and this young Ajax side is just the lot to smash them. The sides first paired off in the Cup Winners Cup back in 1981 when Tottenham eased to a 3-1 success, before dealing out a 3-0 beating at White Hart Lane. There was to be no repeat performance.

An In-Depth Look at The Game

There have been rumours this is the side to bring Ajax back to the top of European football and we saw flashes earlier in the competition they were keen to go far. Few expected them to be playing in the semi-finals with a shot at reaching the last two and lifting the trophy, however. When drawn against Real Madrid the general feeling was their run would come to a shuddering halt and they’d prove just another stat on their opponent’s impressive record. That wasn’t the case – nowhere near it, in fact. Ajax battered Blancos 5-3 on aggregate, after winning 4-1 in Spain.

If that wasn’t impressive enough, they then went and knocked out Juventus in the next stage, claiming a 3-2 aggregate win over The Old Lady, a 2-1 in Italy helping do the damage. If Ajax are to win the cup, they will do it having been handed the toughest route to the final. Tottenham were next to feel the pain, beaten 1-0 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium thanks to a goal from van de Beek on 15 minutes.

Still Alive and Kicking

Following that home defeat, Mauricio Pochettino spoke to the press, blaming a weak start for the result. He credited his opponents for their early energy but thought Tottenham worked their way back into the game and issued a rallying cry to the squad and their fans – we are alive. They were torn apart by Ajax, but the truth of the matter remains, there’s still only a goal in it and there’s more to come from this Spurs side. They looked off-colour in the first-leg, probably the worst we’ve seen from them, but they remain in the fixture.