Ajax has by far the youngest team in the Europa League – NUsport.nl

Ajax has by far the youngest team of the remaining 32 clubs in the Europa League.

The Amsterdam presented last week in the first meeting with Legia Warsaw in the round a team with an average age of 21.91 years.

Jasper Cillessen and Nick Viergever were the only Ajax players at kick-off who were born in the eighties. With eighteen years served Riechedly Bazoer as the baby of the group.

The second-youngest team in the last Europa League round was PSV, who started the match against Zenit St. Petersburg players were on average 23.27 years old. In Eindhoven was Jetro Willems with his 20 years the youngest player and Andreas Guardado with 28 years the oldest

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The Danish Aalborg was the only other team with the average age of the basic players under 24 years was: 23.82 years. Sporting Lisbon and Liverpool shared the fourth place in this ranking with an average of 24.27 years.

Feyenoord

Feyenoord coach Fred Rutten opted last week in the first match against AS Roma for a relatively old team. The average age was 26.73 years, mainly by veterans Luke Wilkshire and Khalid Boulahrouz and the experience also Lex Indeed, Karim El Ahmadi and Colin Kazim-Richards.

Still, there were even eleven teams with average age was higher. With an average of less than 29.27 years Fiorentina performed this list, for Trabzonspor and Guingamp (both 28.18 years).

The oldest player was in the first leg of the round of Dinamo Kiev goalkeeper Olexandr Shovkovskiy with his 40 years. Bazoer was the youngest player.

Returns

Ajax defends Thursday from 19:00 1-0 against Legia Warsaw. PSV must at 18:00 just make up a 1-0 deficit against Zenit St. Petersburg to reach the quarter finals.

The kickoff at Feyenoord AS Roma at 21.05. After the 1-1 in Rome, the Rotterdam enough to a goalless draw

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By:. NU.nl

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