Ajax Under-19 fell hard in the Youth League on Tuesday afternoon against the peers of Borussia Dortmund. Although the Amsterdammers seemed to be able to measure themselves playing football, it turned out that BVB particularly effective in the counter: 1-5. Ajax Under-19 has collected four points in the group after three matches and is third behind Dortmund and Sporting Portugal. On Tuesday evening at 9 p.m. Ajax’s first game in the Champions League will play against Dortmund.
It was a special match for Julian Rijkhoff, after the sixteen-year-old striker made the switch from Ajax to Dortmund in January of this year. Rijkhoff had some huge chances, but didn’t score. In the eighteenth minute things went wrong for the first time in the defense of the team from Amsterdam, when Dennis Lutke-Frie brought a deflected ball in front of the goal again and Bradley Fink headed it in: 0-1. Ajax repaired the damage within six minutes via Jaydon Banel, who tapped in a hard low cross from Prince Aning: 1-1.
It’s raining goals at De Toekomst! ?? The Germans strike again and Fink signs for his second goal of the afternoon: 1-3 ??#ZiggoSport #UYL #AJADOR pic.twitter.com/2TwtBZn309
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Rijkhoff then missed one-on-one with Tom de Graaff by shooting at the goalkeeper, but Dortmund took a new lead after more than half an hour. A corner was extended in such a way that Albin Thaqi could nod the ball in at the far post: 1-2. Ajax looked for the attack and ran into a deadly counter from Dortmund. Fink was at the end of that attack, outplayed Olivier Aertssen and hit in the short corner: 1-3.
And then it will also be 1-5… ?? Lütke-Frie scores an excellent free kick ????#ZiggoSport #UYL #AJABVB pic.twitter.com/Vjzd1ysWDI
— Ziggo Sport Football (@ZS_Voetbal) October 19, 2021
After the break, Rijkhoff again broke through Ajax’s defense, this time after a mistake in the build-up, but again De Graaff intervened. The team from Amsterdam continued to give away a lot of space to the Germans, who struck again on the counter after more than an hour. It was a breeze for Lutke-Frie to shoot the ball into the empty goal after a wide pass from Fink: 1-4. Lutke-Frie also made it 1-5 two minutes later by placing a free kick from the edge of the penalty area over the wall in the intersection.