Ajax broke their own 48-year Eredivisie record on Saturday when they hammered Venlo 13-0 in the biggest ever win in the history of the divi...
Ajax broke their own 48-year Eredivisie record on Saturday when they hammered Venlo 13-0 in the biggest ever win in the history of the division.
Lassina Traore struck five times as the defending champions outdid Johan Cruyff’s Ajax, whose 12-1 win over Vitesse Arnhem had stood as the top flight’s record win since May 1972 – the season the Amsterdam club won the league title and the second of their four European Cups.
Traore became the first Ajax player to score five goals in an Eredivisie game since Marco van Basten in 1985 as his team racked up more goals in this match than they had in their five other league matches.
The 19-year-old’s goals were his first of the league campaign and put him one behind Feyenoord’s Steven Berghuis who tops the scoring charts, and he also set up three for his teammates.
Afterwards, Traore said Ajax’s midweek 1-0 loss to Liverpool in the Champions League “made us angry” and hungry to atone against Venlo.
“We have respect for them, but once on the field we gave everything and became even angrier,” he told public broadcaster NOS.
Ajax coach Erik Ten Hag agreed: “You don’t see this type of result in the Eredivisie. It’s very special.
“We were hungry in the field. We...
