He Ajax and the Benfica successfully eliminated the Midtjylland (1-3) and at Dinamo Zagreb (1-3), respectively, and were cited in the semifinals of the Youth Champions League that both teams will play next Saturday.
He Ajax he opened the afternoon with a historical classification. One of the most important quarries in Europe over the years, it had not yet managed to sneak into the top four in any of the previous six editions. He did it against a theoretically inferior team, the Midtjylland, which could not break with logic and ended its participation in the quarterfinals.
The Danish team held the guy until the edge of the break, but shortly before, the Danish Christian rasmussen, opened the scoring with a tremendous shoe from outside the area with which he ended the resistance of the Midtjylland.
Then, a few minutes after the restart, Sontje Hansen opened the gap with another shot from outside the area that seemed to point the Danish side, which, however, regained hope with an own goal Daan reiziger when there was a quarter left to play.
Was Joel ideho who was in charge of sinking the MidtjyllandDesperate for the draw, he was executed in a counterattack that culminated the young Dutchman with an incredible Vaseline from outside the area. It was the icing on the cake in which the Ajax, based on goals, reached the semifinals for the first time.
In them will also be the Benfica, which is not new in that round. He caught up with it and passed it in the 2013/14 and 2016/17 seasons. Later, he lost the finals to Barcelona and the Salzburg and three years after the last defeat, he will aspire to play his third game for the title.
In quarters he got rid of Dinamo Zagreb, who in the previous round surprised the Bayern Munich. And, although he soon advanced on the scoreboard through the Albanian Bernard Karrica, which culminated a masterful heads-up against the Japanese goalkeeper Leo Kokubo, then he could not with the experience of the Portuguese painting.
Before the break, Henrique Pereira scored his third goal in the tournament and Gonçalo Ramos, with a double in the second half, ended the illusions of a team that died on the edge of the semifinals. Next Saturday, in Nyon (Switzerland), Benfica and Ajax they will fight for a spot in the final.