Ajax take on the visitors Benfica at the Johan Cruyff Arena in the Round 3 of the UEFA Champions League Group E. The match will be played in Amsterdam on Tuesday, October 23rd.
Ajax from Netherlands have been looking pretty solid so far this UEFA Champions League group stage. They have four points to their credit after two matches in the Group H. In the Round 1 of the tournament the Sons of the Gods beat AEK Athens with a 3-0 score in front of their home crowd and that was no surprise at all. However, in the Round 2 they drew against Bayern Munich with a 1-1 score on the away field and that made them one of the favourites in the Group H to go through to the play-offs of the most prestigious football tournament. Their offensive line has been especially incredible recently. Besides their recent games against AEK Athens and Bayern Munich the team of Erik ten Hag has also scored against Dynamo Kyiv from Ukraine (three goals), against Standard Liege from Belgium (five goals) and against Sturm Graz from Austria (five goals too) this 2018/2019 UEFA Champions League season. In their last three matches Ajax beat Heerenveen with a 4-0 score, AZ Alkmaar with a 5-0 score and drew against Bayern Munich with a 1-1 score in their UEFA Champions League Group E fixture.
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Benfica have also been looking pretty solid in the offense this UEFA Champions League season. They have already scored against PAOK from Greece and AEK Athens from Greece too recently. Overall, the Aguias scored eight goals in their three games against those opponents. Interestingly, the team of Rui Vitoria got their player removed from the field by the referee and played the whole second half without him in their fixture against AEK Athens but were able to beat their opponents with a 3-2 score anyway. In their last three matches Benfica beat Sertanense with a 3-0 score in the 1/32-finals fixture of the Taca de Portugal, Porto with a 1-0 score and AEK Athens with a 3-2 score in their UEFA Champions League Group E fixture.
Both Ajax and Benfica are likely to lean on their respective offensive lines in the upcoming Round 3 fixture between them. Both the Sons of the Gods and the Aguias never show a defensive playing style. Thereby we should watch them score some goals on Tuesday.
Prediction for the match: Both teams to score.
