Ajax vs Manchester United
It has all the hallmarks of being the footballers’ final.
Two great institutions with great traditions and heritage.
Two clubs which have brought us greats that have spanned the eras from George Best and Johan Cruyff to Ryan Giggs and Patrick Kluivert.
Two clubs with a pedigree for winning in style.
Football games between these two are usually eminently watchable, and the betting odds offer tantalising prospects for both.
This time, Stockholm is the venue for a major European final – the Europa League final – and the chance for two clubs to end their campaigns on a high.
Ajax missed out on the Eredivisie for the third season in a row, despite taking the title race to the last day, and would love to crown the progress of this young side with a victory.
Manchester United already have silverware following February’s League Cup success but victory in this one would make it a very successful maiden season for Jose Mourinho, not to mention a return to the Champions League in September.
The young Dutch side could contain 18-year-old Justin Kluivert, son of Patrick, who may even be marked by Daley Blind, son of Danny Blind and a team-mate of Kluivert senior when Ajax won the Champions League in 1995.
In a further twist, Blind junior was part of their team which won four consecutive Dutch titles before Louis van Gaal, manager of the 1995 Ajax vintage, took him to Old Trafford in 2014.
In truth, there will be more pressure on United in Sweden as they prepare to play their 64th and final match of an exerting campaign – their second longest ever.
They need to win to qualify for the Champions League next season, whereas Ajax are already guaranteed a play-off place after finishing runners-up in the Dutch league.
This really is a showpiece which could go either way, but I have to plump for United with a 🌟🌟🌟 tip of Asian Handicap -0.75 @ 2.08.
It’s experience versus youth in Stockholm and the winner will take it all – rather fitting in the country which gave us Abba.
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