Ajax and Juventus is the most award-winning couple at the first playoff stage in the Europa League. The clubs own a total of 6 titles of the Cup/Championship League winners: 4 for the Amsterdam players and 2 for the Turin players. This season Ajax reveals good training which is, however, far from being perfect: the club is only the third in the Holland’s Championship. The situation with Juventus is much worse: since the end of November the "Old Lady" lost 9 out of 15 matches in different tournaments.
However, the club has had the evident tendency to recovery recently. Juve is winning three matches in a row, and last Sunday it scored its first victory in 5 games. It’s likely to be the high time for the participants of FTBL Fantasy Football to risk and get one of the Italian players in their fantasy-teams. The choice is really tremendous before the match with Ajax: match bars of nearly all players are close to zero if not lower. It means that even a stand-off will add about 10 scores to their ratings. Peculiar interest deserves Alessandro del Piero (picture) who scored two goals in the last match. The match bar of the celebrated striker is 1 score sharp.
The number of profitable variants among the home players is not so numerous, still not hopeless. The “hot five” of the full-back Oleguer provides him for the match of minus 2.7, and the midfield leader Demi de Zeeuw has to defend only 2.48 scores. These stakes seem to be quite reasonable: Ajax is unlikely to loose at home. All the more, to such a well nigh dead Juventus.
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