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Excelsior 0-2 Ajax Amsterdam - December 22, 2002 / Eredivisie 2002/2003

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Eredivisie 2002/2003 - Round 17

Stadion Woudestein - Rotterdam - Netherlands

December 22, 2002

3 687

0 - 2

Ajax Amsterdam

Zlatan IbrahimovicAssist by Steven Pienaar

51'

Petri PasanenAssist by Andy van der Meyde

logo Excelsior Rotterdam ER

2' - Goal Zlatan Ibrahimovic

38' - Red card Danny Buijs38

logo Excelsior Rotterdam ER

46' - Substitution Cecilio Lopesis substituted by Mounir El Hamdaoui46

51' - Goal Petri Pasanen

62' - Substitution Nourdin Boukhariis substituted by Wamberto

68' - Substitution Richard Witschgeis substituted by Stefano Seedorf

73' - Substitution Leo Koswalis substituted by Dries Boussatta73

73' - Substitution Zlatan Ibrahimovicis substituted by Mido

76' - Substitution Brian Pinasis substituted by Brett Holman76

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Excelsior

0 - 2

Ajax Amsterdam

Excelsior Ajax Amsterdam

Team line-ups

Excelsior

Malkowski

Zbigniew Malkowski

Poland

B.date19/01/1978

Age24 years

H1m87

positionGoalkeeper

de Haan

Ferry de Haan

Netherlands

B.date12/09/1972

Age30 years

H1m91

positionDefender

Buijs38

Danny Buijs

Netherlands

B.date21/06/1982

Age20 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

Swerts

Gill Swerts

Belgium

B.date23/09/1982

Age20 years

H1m79

positionLeft central defender

Olfers

Steve Olfers

Netherlands

B.date25/02/1982

Age20 years

H1m79

positionRight central defender

Mtiliga

Patrick Mtiliga

Denmark

B.date28/01/1981

Age21 years

H1m71

positionLeft full-back

Koswal73

Leo Koswal

Netherlands

B.date13/10/1975

Age27 years

H1m80

positionRight Midfielder

Boutahar

Saïd Boutahar

Netherlands

B.date12/08/1982

Age20 years

H1m72

positionLeft Midfielder

Pinas76

Brian Pinas

Netherlands

B.date29/12/1978

Age23 years

H1m75

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Bastos

Michel Bastos

Brazil

B.date02/08/1983

Age19 years

H1m79

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Lopes46

Cecilio Lopes

Cape Verde

B.date18/03/1979

Age23 years

H1m84

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Zbigniew Malkowski		24	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ferry de Haan		30	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Danny Buijs	38	20	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gill Swerts		20	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Olfers		20	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Patrick Mtiliga		21	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Leo Koswal	73	27	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Saïd Boutahar		20	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brian Pinas	76	23	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Michel Bastos		19	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Cecilio Lopes	46	23	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

22.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Ajax Amsterdam

Didulica

Joey Didulica

Croatia

B.date14/10/1977

Age25 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Bergdölmo

Andre Bergdölmo

Norway

B.date13/10/1971

Age31 years

H1m87

positionLeft full-back

Maxwell

Brazil

B.date27/08/1981

Age21 years

H1m77

positionLeft full-back

Pasanen51

Petri Pasanen

Finland

B.date24/09/1980

Age22 years

H1m87

positionRight full-back

de Jong

Nigel de Jong

Netherlands

B.date30/11/1984

Age18 years

H1m74

positionDefensive Midfielder

Witschge68

Richard Witschge

Netherlands

B.date20/09/1969

Age33 years

H1m84

positionVersatile Midfielder

Galasek

Tomas Galasek

Czech Republic

B.date15/01/1973

Age29 years

H1m81

positionMidfield

van der Meyde

Andy van der Meyde

Netherlands

B.date30/09/1979

Age23 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

Boukhari62

Nourdin Boukhari

Morocco

B.date30/06/1980

Age22 years

H1m85

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Pienaar

Steven Pienaar

South Africa

B.date17/03/1982

Age20 years

H1m70

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Ibrahimovic273

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Sweden

B.date03/10/1981

Age21 years

H1m95

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Joey Didulica		25	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Andre Bergdölmo		31	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Maxwell		21	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Petri Pasanen	51	22	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nigel de Jong		18	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Richard Witschge	68	33	281	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tomas Galasek		29	90	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Andy van der Meyde		23	101	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nourdin Boukhari	62	22	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steven Pienaar		20	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	273	21	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Brett Holman	76	18	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dries Boussatta	73	29	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Mounir El Hamdaoui	46	18	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Stefano Seedorf	68	20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Mido	73	19	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Wamberto	62	28	148	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Ferry de Haan

Civard Sprockel

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Petri Pasanen

Jelle van Damme

OUT

Nourdin Boukhari

Jari Litmanen

OUT

Joey Didulica

Maarten Stekelenburg

OUT

Richard Witschge

Cristian Chivu

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Adrie Koster

211

Success rate in this team:

50 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

41 %

Koster vs Ajax Amsterdam

1 victory

0 draw

6 losses

Latest figure on December 22, 2002

Koster vs Koeman

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 22, 2002

Manager

Age

Match num

Ronald Koeman

Success rate in this team:

66 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

57 %

Koeman vs Excelsior

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 22, 2002

Koeman vs Koster

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 22, 2002

Referee

Rien Koopman

0 victory	0 draw	3 losses	Excelsior3 matches	General total	Ajax Amsterdam4 matches	4 victories	0 draw	0 loss
0 victory	0 draw	3 losses	Excelsior3 matches	Season total	Ajax Amsterdam1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on May 17, 2003					Latest figure on December 27, 2005

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Comments

Key figures

Only back at the time of Morten Olsen head of Ajax Amsterdam (01/07/1997-14/11/1998), you can see a manager go over Ronald Koeman with 68% of wins in Eredivisie (85%).

Ajax Amsterdam keeps its 3 matches with at least 2 goals scored running (since 10/12/2002). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 28/04/2002-21/09/2002 time period (10 matches).

End of streak for Ajax Amsterdam after 5 matches with at least one goal conceded (since 27/11/2002). It was the best streak for the club since 24/10/2001-28/11/2001 (7 matches).

Read the next 16 key stats

General ranking

11	Heerenveen	20 pts	17 rd
12	AZ Alkmaar	20 pts	16 rd
13	Excelsior Rotterdam	18 pts	17 rd
14	Vitesse Arnhem	16 pts	17 rd
15	RBC Roosendaal	16 pts	17 rd

General ranking

	1	PSV Eindhoven	42 pts	17 rd
	2	Ajax Amsterdam	40 pts	17 rd
	3	Feyenoord Rotterdam	33 pts	17 rd
+1	4	NAC Breda	26 pts	16 rd
-1	5	Roda JC	26 pts	17 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DExcelsior Rotterdam 0-0 NEC Nijmegen02/11/2002

VExcelsior Rotterdam 1-0 Dordrecht05/11/2002

LExcelsior Rotterdam 0-3 NAC Breda17/11/2002

LExcelsior Rotterdam 0-3 Willem II22/11/2002

VExcelsior Rotterdam 4-2 Sparta Rotterdam03/12/2002

DExcelsior Rotterdam 2-2 FC Twente14/12/2002

Overall

LExcelsior Rotterdam 0-3 NAC Breda17/11/2002

LExcelsior Rotterdam 0-3 Willem II22/11/2002

VExcelsior Rotterdam 4-2 Sparta Rotterdam03/12/2002

DRBC Roosendaal 1-1 Excelsior Rotterdam06/12/2002

DExcelsior Rotterdam 2-2 FC Twente14/12/2002

VVitesse Arnhem 1-2 Excelsior Rotterdam18/12/2002

Current form

Away

DRKC Waalwijk 1-1 Ajax Amsterdam26/10/2002

VLyon 0-2 Ajax Amsterdam30/10/2002

DRoda JC 1-1 Ajax Amsterdam08/11/2002

VHeerenveen 0-3 Ajax Amsterdam23/11/2002

DValencia CF 1-1 Ajax Amsterdam27/11/2002

DDe Graafschap 1-1 Ajax Amsterdam07/12/2002

Overall

VHeerenveen 0-3 Ajax Amsterdam23/11/2002

DValencia CF 1-1 Ajax Amsterdam27/11/2002

VAjax Amsterdam 2-1 FC Twente01/12/2002

DDe Graafschap 1-1 Ajax Amsterdam07/12/2002

VAjax Amsterdam 2-1 AS Roma10/12/2002

LAjax Amsterdam 2-4 PSV Eindhoven15/12/2002

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	2	4
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	2	4
Conceding streak	4	7

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	2	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	8	0
Winless streak	2	1
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	7	15
Conceding streak	2	5

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

13	General ranking (Competition total)	2
18	General ranking (Home / Away)	2

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

16	Number of games (Competition total)	16
8	Number of games (Home / Away)	8
4	Victories (Competition total)	11
1	Victories (Home / Away)	5
6	Draws (Competition total)	4
3	Draws (Home / Away)	3
6	Losses (Competition total)	1
4	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

20	Goals scored (Competition total)	42
8	Goals scored (Home / Away)	16
27	Goals conceded (Competition total)	18
15	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	8
1.25	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2.63
1	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	2
1.69	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.13
1.88	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1

Betting aid

9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	12
5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	5
2	Clean sheets (Competition total)	4
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
5	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
4	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
10	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	12
4	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	7
0-3 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (3 times)

Bookings

10	Yellow cards (Competition total)	15
7	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	9
1	Red cards (Competition total)	2
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	2

Key players

Saïd Boutahar	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	8 goals	Mido
Steve Olfers	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Andy van der Meyde
Brian Pinas	4 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	6 assists	Mido
Brian Pinas	2 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	3 assists	Victor Sikora
Saïd Boutahar	3 goals during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	5 goals, 6 assists during the last 14 matches	Andy van der Meyde

Historical head to head

Home

13 matches

0 v

3 d

10 l

9 gf

31 ga

Away

12 matches

0 v

0 d

12 l

3 gf

48 ga

Total

25 matches

0 v

3 d

22 l

12 gf

79 ga

Historical head to head

Home

12 matches

12 v

0 d

0 l

48 gf

3 ga

Away

13 matches

10 v

3 d

0 l

31 gf

9 ga

Total

25 matches

22 v

3 d

0 l

79 gf

12 ga

Largest victory

No success yet

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 0	November 25, 1972
Away	5 - 0	December 16, 1990

Latest head to head

December 16, 1990 - KNVB-Beker 1990/1991

Excelsior

0 - 5

Ajax Amsterdam logo Ajax Amsterdam

March 07, 1987 - Eredivisie 1986/1987

Ajax Amsterdam

3 - 0

Excelsior

September 03, 1986 - Eredivisie 1986/1987

Excelsior

0 - 2

Ajax Amsterdam logo Ajax Amsterdam

December 15, 1985 - Eredivisie 1985/1986

Ajax Amsterdam

3 - 0

Excelsior

August 18, 1985 - Eredivisie 1985/1986

Excelsior

2 - 3

Ajax Amsterdam logo Ajax Amsterdam

Best historical scorers against Ajax Amsterdam

Michel Beukers

1 goal

1984 - 1984

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 10/04/1971. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Excelsior

Marco van Basten	9 goals	1983 - 1987
Johan Cruijff	6 goals	1972 - 1973
Sören Lerby	4 goals	1979 - 1982
Wim Kieft	3 goals	1981 - 1981
Ruud Geels	3 goals	1975 - 1976
Johnny Rep	3 goals	1972 - 1974

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 10/04/1971. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Ajax Amsterdam

Graeme Rutjes	2 matches	1984 - 1984
Steve Wasiman	2 matches	1984 - 1984
Aad Leenheer	2 matches	1984 - 1984
Michel Beukers	2 matches	1984 - 1984
Henk van Goozen	2 matches	1984 - 1984
Nico Jalink	2 matches	1984 - 1984

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 04/10/1970. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Excelsior

Peter Boeve	13 matches	1979 - 1986
Sonny Silooy	11 matches	1982 - 1990
Ruud Krol	11 matches	1970 - 1980
Frank Rijkaard	10 matches	1982 - 1987
Gerrie Mühren	9 matches	1970 - 1976
Marco van Basten	9 matches	1982 - 1987

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 04/10/1970. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

The other matches

December 18, 2002

Heerenveen

2 0

Zwolle

Line-ups available

December 20, 2002

Line-ups available

Line-ups available

December 21, 2002

Line-ups available

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Line-ups available

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December 22, 2002

NAC Breda

1 1

Feyenoord

Line-ups available

Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	PSV Eindhoven	42	17	13	3	1	42	10	+32
2	Ajax Amsterdam	40	17	12	4	1	44	18	+26
3	Feyenoord Rotterdam	33	17	10	3	4	40	20	+20
+14	NAC Breda	26	16	6	8	2	22	12	+10
-15	Roda JC	26	17	7	5	5	30	25	+5
6	Willem II	25	17	7	4	6	26	23	+3
7	RKC Waalwijk	25	17	7	4	6	18	23	-5
8	Utrecht	24	17	6	6	5	23	21	+2
9	NEC Nijmegen	23	17	6	5	6	22	26	-4
10	FC Twente	22	17	5	7	5	21	24	-3
11	Heerenveen	20	17	5	5	7	24	29	-5
12	AZ Alkmaar	20	16	6	2	8	27	40	-13
13	Excelsior Rotterdam	18	17	4	6	7	20	29	-9
14	Vitesse Arnhem	16	17	4	4	9	17	20	-3
15	RBC Roosendaal	16	17	4	4	9	20	29	-9
16	FC Groningen	13	17	3	4	10	16	28	-12
17	Zwolle	13	17	3	4	10	16	30	-14
18	De Graafschap	13	17	3	4	10	18	39	-21

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Excelsior 0-2 Ajax Amsterdam - December 22, 2002 / Eredivisie 2002/2003

Excelsior

0 - 2

Ajax Amsterdam

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Koster vs Ajax Amsterdam

Koster vs Koeman

Manager

Koeman vs Excelsior

Koeman vs Koster

Referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Ajax Amsterdam

Best historical scorers against Excelsior

Players with most games played vs Ajax Amsterdam

Players with most games played vs Excelsior

Competition info

The other matches

Post-match general ranking