Atalanta vs Ajax UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
This will be Atalanta‘s first ever meeting with Ajax and their first encounter with a Dutch side in all European competition.
Ajax have gone seven games unbeaten against Italian opposition In European competition (W2 D5), since a 1-2 defeat to Juventus in February 2010 (UEFA Europa League). They last went eight such matches without defeat in March 1994.
Atalanta lost their opening home game in the UEFA Champions League last season but have gone unbeaten in their three home games since (W2 D1 ).
Ajax are unbeaten in their last nine away games in the UEFA Champions League (W6 D3), winning six of their last seven. The Dutch side last enjoyed a longer run in the competition between September 1994 and March 1997 (14 games).
Atalanta have scored 21 goals in their 10 UEFA Champions League games. at an average of 2.1 per game. Only Real Madrid (2.12) have a better goals-per-game ratio In the competition's history.
Ajax have lost their last two UEFA Champions League games, last losing three in a row in November 2014. Only in two oftheir15 previous Champions League campaigns have the Dutch side started with two consecutive defeats (2004-05 and 2012-13).
Only Barcelona (11) had more shots on target on M01 of the UEFA Champions League this season than Atalanta (10). Josip llicic has been involved in six goals in his last three UEFA Champions League games (5 goals, 1 assist), with Atalanta netting four goals in each of these three matches.
Atalanta's Duvan Zapata has been involved in three goals in his last two UEFA Champions League appearances (2 goals.1 assist), more than he had in his first nine in the competition (1 goal,1 assist). After scoring six goals in his first eight games in the UEFA Champions League (3 assists),
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Ajax's Dusan Tadic has failed to score in any of his last 11 appearances in the competition (4 assists).
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