After 22 years, Ajex has been advanced to Champions League knockout tie. Real Madrid has been eliminated from the Champions League knockout tie following a humiliating defeat from Ajax 4-1 on Tuesday and 5-3 in aggregate.
Ajax scored the first goal into the Madrid post in the 7th minute of the first half. For the Ajax dominant win, Hakim Ziyech (7mins) David Neres (18 mins), Dusan Tadic (62 mins), Lasse Schone (72mins) have contributed. For the Real, only Macro Asensio gave the consolation score in the 70th minute. Similarly, in the game, Real’s Nacho got the red card in extra time.
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- Real Madrid are the first reigning Champions League winners to fail to qualify for the quarter-final stage since Chelsea in 2012-13 (knocked out in the group stage).
- Real Madrid’s 4-1 defeat to Ajax was their biggest ever margin of defeat a home knockout game in European competition.
- Ajax are unbeaten in each of their previous 48 Champions League matches in which they’ve scored the opener (W40 D8).
- Ajax have progressed through a Champions League knockout stage tie for the first time in 22 years – last doing so in the 1996-97 campaign when the Dutch side prevailed against Atlético Madrid in the quarter-finals.
- Real Madrid have lost four successive games at the Bernabeu for just the third occasion in their history – also doing so in 1995 and 2004.
- Ajax are just the third away side to score 4+ goals in a Champions League match at the Bernabeu (also, Bayern Munich 4-2 in February 2000 and Schalke 4-3 in March 2015).
- Ajax are only the second team to eliminate Real Madrid from a European knockout tie having lost the first leg at home, after Odense Boldklub in the 1994-95 UEFA Cup.
- Ajax’s Dusan Tadic has been directly involved in more goals than any other player in the Champions League this season (6 goals, 3 assists).
- Dusan Tadic is the second Ajax player to have scored 6+ goals in a single Champions League campaign, after Jari Litmanen (1994-95 and 1995-96). (Agencies)
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