Ajax vs Rangers Match Analysis and Prediction

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Ajax will host Rangers at the Johan Cruijff ArenA in their 2022-23 Champions League group opener on Wednesday night.

Ajax have made an impressive start to their campaign in the Eredivisie despite losing their manager and a host of key players, including Antony, Lisandro Martinez and Sebastien Haller over the summer. They have won all their opening league matches and they will be looking to make it six wins across all competitions on Wednesday.

With Liverpool and Napoli to come in Group A Ajax need to make an impressive start here as it will not be easy to take points off Liverpool and Napoli. However, they will be aware of the danger Rangers, who saw out PSV Eindhoven to qualify for the tournament group stage, pause and thus Alfred Schreuder’s side will need to alert on Wednesday.

Rangers finished as runners-up in the Europa League last season, thanks to some impressive displays in the competition. They now make return to the Champions League after a 12-year absence with hope of sustaining a push in this competition as they did last season in the Europa League.

However, the Gers head into their Wednesday’s opener in a bad place after their last weekend’s league mauling in the Old Firm Derby. Rangers suffered an unpleasant 4-0 defeat at Celtic and have much to amend ahead of the Wednesday’s clash.

They have raised their game on plenty of occasions in Europe and will hope for the same here, but they face a classy Ajax side who have goals in their locker at away.