On Wednesday night, Ajax got off to a great start in the group round of the UEFA Champions League.
Rangers FC, a losing finalist in the UEFA Europa League last season, was outmatched 4-0 by Ajax players in the Johan Cruijff Arena.
The Amsterdam production was overseen by lvarez, Steven Berghuis, Mohammed Kudus, and Steven Bergwijn.
Two changes were made by Alfred Schreuder to the starting lineup from the matchup at home versus SC Cambuur (4-0).
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Brian Brobbey and Davy Klaassen were replaced at the kickoff by Kudus and Kenneth Taylor.
Ajax got the game going with vigor and placed the pressure on the Scottish defense almost on.
At first, there weren’t many chances, but the trend ended when lvarez scored a header in the seventeenth minute.
The Mexican scored after sending a diagonal corner to the far post.
The Ajax players’ hunger was not sated by this as the attacking drive persisted, Rangers were given very little room to breathe.
Ajax had two fantastic opportunities to score through Devyne Rensch, but goalie McLaughlin’s stop and Rensch’s poor decision to lay wide rather than shoot herself kept it from going 2-0 before 30 minutes.
32 seconds into the game, the score was doubled. Steven
Berghuis moved fluidly, placed the ball in front of his left, his preferred side, and fired.
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a Rangers leg allowed the ball to caromed into the Scottish goal.
Although fortunate, it was nonetheless well earned.
Ajax made another attack after more than a minute, this time with Kudus.
The seldom striker fulfilled his decision by slamming the ball into the far corner.
McLaughlin, the goalkeeper, could only hear the wager flying past him.
There were still a number of threatening Ajax moments and opportunities before the break, but the team of Dutchman Giovanni van Bronckhorst was spared worse suffering.
After the break, the tempo initially disappeared from the game.
From Amsterdam’s perspective, a solo by Kudus after more than an hour of play stoked the flames.
The Ghanaian defended alongside many Rangers players in the enemy’s 16 but ultimately missed the opportunity to score the evening’s second goal.
Rangers believed they had made it 3-1 with a goal from Barisic after 71 minutes, but the goal was ruled offside.
In this manner, the three-goal margin was preserved, Ajax maintained its perfect record, and there was a chance to increase the lead in the dying moments.
That took place fifteen minutes early.
Bergwijn unexpectedly found himself 1-on-1 after a bad pass back, and he passed McLaughlin with a score of 4-0.