Liverpool vs Ajax prediction, odds and preview

Tuesday’s Champions League Group A match at Anfield features two teams that were on opposite ends of multiple-goal encounters the previous week. Liverpool will host Ajax.

On the opening day of play, Napoli destroyed Jurgen Klopp’s team 4-1, while Alfred Schreuder’s team ran riot against Rangers, scoring four unanswered goals.

As all Premier League teams had their games postponed following the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the inquiry into Liverpool’s death at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona continued into the weekend.

Liverpool’s dismal start to the new season reached a new low against Napoli, leaving them playing catch-up in the race to go to the round of 16. Luis Diaz’s consolation was all the traveling Reds faithful had to cheer against Napoli.

The Anfield supporters can find comfort in the fact that their team has won its last two at home and has never started a Champions League campaign with back-to-back losses. The Reds are currently third in the early standings after one game, which would result in a move to the Europa League.

Overall, since Inter Milan’s insignificant 1-0 victory on Merseyside last season, Liverpool has gone 10 games without losing at Anfield in all competitions, but their future opponents managed to accomplish a feat that was stolen away from them last weekend.

Liverpool attempted to become the first English team to win seven consecutive Champions League group games last week, but fell short. Ajax and Bayern Munich were the other two clubs to finish with a perfect 18 points in the group stage of last season.

In contrast, the Eredivisie champions were in seventh heaven as they defeated Rangers 4-0 while teaching them a lesson in football thanks to goals from Alvarez, Berghuis, Kudus, and Bergwijn.

With a 5-0 Eredivisie thumping of Heerenveen at the weekend, the Ajax extended their winning streak to seven games, showing no symptoms of a post-Erik ten Hag hangover. Kudus maintained his momentum that day with a brace.

Prior to Tuesday’s crucial match, Schreuder’s team had not experienced the most difficult of beginnings to their domestic campaign, but their Champions League acumen was as sharp as ever against Rangers. The visitors had now kept five straight clean sheets in all competitions.

Ajax has only lost twice in their last 25 away games in all of European play, but their most recent setback did occur there in 2020, by a score of 1-0, only six weeks after the Reds had also won by a solitary goal in Amsterdam.