The exsanguination of a god
The comparisons to the Ajax teams of the 1970s and 1990s flowed freely, but this week's result against Real Madrid stands above the great comebacks those sides can both account for
In 64 years of the European Cup andChampions League there have been exactly 10 occasions where a team has lost the first leg of a knockout game at home and gone on to progress to the next round. We all know about what happened in Paris, but the story of the week doesn’t belong there.
Of those eight, Ajax can account for three such comebacks, but none to compare to what we saw ...
