Ajax will welcome Borussia Dortmund to the Johan Cruyff Arena in the Champions League matchday 3 on Tuesday. The kick-off is at 21:00 CEST.

Preview

Even though Ajax kicked off the 2021/22 campaign with a 4-0 thrashing at the hands of PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Super Cup, Erik ten Hag's side have gone on to lose points just twice in 11 games across all competitions since then, including respective 5-1 and 2-0 wins over Sporting Lisbon and Besiktas in the opening two 2021/22 CL matches, to sit at the top of the Eredivisie and the Group C standings now.

Dortmund, meanwhile, have also beaten the Portuguese and the Turkish champions 2-1 and 1-0 respectively and now sit in second behind their forthcoming opponents on goal difference. As for their run in Bundesliga, Marco Rose's men have jumped into the second place in the table following a 3-1 victory over Mainz on Saturday. Ajax, for their part, are coming into this clash on the back of a 2-0 victory at Heerenveen over the weekend.

Team news

As Maarten Stekelenburg will miss this encounter through an injury and Andre Onana is still unavailable due to his lengthy suspension, Ajax are set to line up with their third-choice goalkeeper Remko Pasveer on Tuesday. Raphael Guerreiro, Soumaila Coulibaly, Mateu Morey, Dan-Axel Zagadou and Youssoufa Moukoko, meanwhile, won't travel to the Dutch capital through respective injury woes.

Prediction

Considering the fact that BVB have kept just two clean sheets in 13 matches across all competitions this term so far while Ajax have scored 39 goals over the same period of time, you should certainly expect a goal fest taking place in their head-to-head meeting on Tuesday. As for a potential winner in this one, we'd rather give a slight advantage to the visiting side who have welcomed Erling Haaland back from injury against Mainz with the Norwegian hitman celebrating his return by scoring a brace to extend his 2021/22 tally to 13 strikes in nine games.

Tip

Borussia Dortmund not to lose and total over 2.5 at 2.79 with 1XBET.