An away win over Bayern Munich?
If anyone had said that before the match, everyone would have thought it impossible—even sneered at the idea.
The gap between the two teams was simply too great.
Bayern Munich was one of the strongest teams in European football, hailed as a top side capable of challenging Real Madrid and Barcelona. And Ajax?
They were merely a mediocre Eredivisie team. They had not even reached the Champions League Group Stage in many years.
How could a team like that possibly go toe-to-toe with Bayern Munich?
Before the match, many German media outlets had even been speculating about how many goals Bayern Munich would win by that night.
They were not merely thinking about winning. They wanted to rack up their goal difference as well.
But once the match began, they discovered that things were not unfolding as they had imagined.
Bayern Munich only played genuinely good football for a little over ten minutes. After that, the match turned into Ajax's counterattacking game.
This Eredivisie side aggressively employed High Press, showing not the slightest sign of fear or retreat. When counterattacking, they used quick passing combinations along the ground, constantly sending the ball into Bayern Munich's thirty-meter zone within two or three passes, then creating danger through the rapid movement of their attacking players.
After equalizing at one-one, this young team, whose average age was not even twenty, unexpectedly erupted with astonishing fighting spirit and looked extremely fired up on the pitch.
Although they had fallen behind in possession, they actually seemed superior to Bayern Munich in terms of the flow of the match—especially in creating danger—and several young players were shining repeatedly.
The fans in the stands were left staring in disbelief.
Was this really the supposedly hopeless Ajax?
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