Ajax Amsterdam vs Real Madrid (UEFA Champions League Wednesday, December 7, 2011)

Watch Ajax Amsterdam vs Real Madrid live UEFA Champions League Group D on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 19:45 GMT at Amsterdam ArenA.

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Real Madrid managed to beat Ajax 3-0 at the Bernabeu in the first two teams in Group D, thanks to goals from Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, and Karim Benzema.

The game against Ajax is just a formality for Madrid which has been ascertained to qualify as group winners. But for Ajax, a draw was enough to accompany Madrid to the round of 16. Ajax is currently sitting in the rank-2 with eight points, three ahead of Olympique Lyon at the bottom. Lyon must beat Dinamo Zagreb 7-0 to overtake more than Ajax.

Madrid coach Jose Mourinho is likely to reduce the two-tier players in this fight, to keep the core players fitness ahead of El Clasico match against Barcelona this weekend.

Madrid is the only team that always wins in the Champions League group stage so far. Madrid also become fertile with Barcelona team with 16 goals. Madrid striker Karim Benzema is a club in the Champions League top scorer with 4 goals.

If Madrid beat Ajax back on this fight, then Madrid will become the fifth team which won the group stage matches in the history of the Champions League after AC Milan (1992/93), Paris Saint-Germain (1994/95), Spartak Moscow (1995 / 96), and Barcelona (2002/03).

Ajax coach Frank de Boer had faced nine times Madrid in La Liga and the Champions League while still a Barcelona player in 1999-2003, picked up two wins, five draws and two defeats.