Ajax will look to ensure Rostov do not make a huge breakthrough in their maiden UEFA Champions League campaign when the teams meet in the play-offs.
Previous meetings
• This is Rostov’s first competitive encounter with Dutch opponents.
• Ajax have lost all four of their previous matches against Russian clubs, all versus Spartak Moskva. They went down 3-1 at home and 1-0 away in a 1997/98 UEFA Cup quarter-final and 1-0 in Amsterdam and 3-0 in Moscow in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League round of 16 tie.
Match background
• Ajax eliminated PAOK 3-2 on aggregate to reach the play-offs, Davy Klaassen’s 88th-minute strike in the second…