🫣 Historic title meltdown, record champions throw away huge lead | OneFootball

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The title race in the Netherlands seemed to have been decided a month ago. Record champion Ajax had a nine-point lead over the competition in the Eredivisie in mid-April.

The 37th championship in their club history was actually just a formality, but what happened from the 30th matchday onwards was unprecedented in the Dutch top flight.

Ajax experienced a historic meltdown in the last few weeks, earning only two points from four games. They even suffered heavy defeats against Utrecht (0:4) and Nijmegen (0:3). On the other hand, PSV from Eindhoven haven't dropped a single point since their painful defeat against Ajax on matchday 27.

The insane comeback culminated in a highly dramatic manner yesterday. Ajax conceded an equalizer in the 99th minute despite being twice in the lead against Groningen, thus losing the top spot to PSV.

At the same time, thousands of fans, players, and club officials in Eindhoven, about 260 kilometers south, were glued to their phones after the final whistle of their game against Heracles Almelo, following the last minutes of the competition.

Ajax wouldn't mess up again, would they? But they did. The news of the last-minute equalizer spread like wildfire, even if there was initially apparent disbelief and doubt about the authenticity of the information.

After that, all hell broke loose, as PSV now has everything in their own hands on the last matchday. Ajax, on the other hand, must feel like they're in the wrong movie. Never has a team in the Eredivisie squandered a nine-point lead at this point in the season.

The championship is not yet decided, but given Ajax's brutal downward trend, there's likely little hope for a happy ending.

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