Feyenoord Rotterdam 6-0 Ajax Amsterdam (Apr 7, 2024) Game Analysis

Ajax’s dismal season took an extra flip for the more serious on Sunday after they had been thrashed 6-0 by rivals Feyenoord in what was their greatest ever Eredivisie defeat.

The conflict between these two sides, dubbed De Klassieker (The Classic), is the standout fixture of the Dutch league however Ajax’s implosion this season meant Feyenoord comfortably swept apart their rivals.

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Feyenoord discovered themselves three targets up at half-time courtesy of strikes from Igor Paixão, Yankuba Minteh and David Hancko. Three targets in a nine-minute spell within the second-half noticed the hosts double their lead, with Minteh and Paixão each including to their tally both aspect of Quinten Timber‘s strike.

“In the break we told each other that we had to dare to play football. But that didn’t happen. It was just men against pupils today,” Ajax boss John van’t Schip stated after the sport.

“We were trounced on all fronts today. Physicality, speed in the duels. We got four goals from personal mistakes. That’s because of the pressure Feyenoord are putting on.

“This was greater than embarrassing. All of us. The workers and gamers.”

The result leaves Ajax in sixth place on 45 points, a staggering 24 points behind second-placed Feyenoord. Their loss on Sunday was their eighth in the league this season.

The Amsterdam side, who went into the game looking for revenge following their 4-0 defeat to Feyenoord in the reverse fixture, fielded a weakened side with Jordan Henderson, Steven Berghuis, Diant Ramaj and Brian Brobbey all missing through injury. They proved no match for a rampant Feyenoord side, who allowed Ajax just a solitary shot on goal, while taking 29 of their own.

The defeat marks the end to a dire week for Ajax, who on Tuesday suspended their chief government Alex Kroes simply two weeks into his tenure for suspected insider dealing.