Ajax vs Rangers LIVE: Champions League result, final score and reaction as Ajax notch comfortable win
Ajax 4-0 Rangers: Gers lose heavily in their first Champions League match in 12 years
Ajax built a commanding early lead before overwhelming Rangers 4-0 in Champions League Group A at the Johan Cruyff Arena.
Edson Alvarez, Steven Berghuis and Mohammed Kudus scored in a one-sided first half and Steven Bergwijn added the fourth 10 minutes from time to complete the rout.
It was a dominant display from a new-look Ajax, who sold several key players over the summer, and lost head coach Erik ten Hag to Manchester United, but still proved far too strong for the Scottish side - last season’s Europa League runners-up.
Borna Barisic did have a goal disallowed for the Gers after an offside in the build-up but they were largely outclassed.
Relive all the action as Ajax beat Rangers in the Champions League:
Napoli 4-1 Liverpool
71 mins: Jurgen Klopp looks like a man searching for answers on the sidelines. His team look very vulnerable defensively.
Napoli substitute Hirving Lozano carries the ball into the box from the left before checking inside of Joel Matip and drilling a shot wide of the near post.
Napoli 4-1 Liverpool
68 mins: Amir Rrahmani is late with a challenge on Luis Diaz and brings the Liverpool forward down just outside the box over on the left side.
Alexander-Arnold curls the set piece over to the back post and sends it straight out of play. That’s a disappointing pass from the Liverpool right-back.
Napoli 4-1 Liverpool
65 mins: Here come Jurgen Klopp’s changes. The Liverpool boss makes three of them and brings on Thiago Alcantara, Darwin Nunez and Diogo Jota.
Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and James Milner are the men replaced.
Napoli 4-1 Liverpool
62 mins: Save! What a chance for Luis Diaz. Liverpool attack down the right but there’s no way into the box for Harvey Elliott. Instead he lays it back to Trent Alexander-Arnold who fizzes a cross into the middle and finds the leaping Diaz
He whips his head onto the ball and sends a powerful header at goal the Alex Meret palms over the crossbar!
Napoli 4-1 Liverpool
59 mins: Darwin Nunez is warming up on the sidelines for Liverpool. They’re going to need him to be on song if he gets on the pitch.
Alexander-Arnold sends the ball down the right side to try and get Salah up the pitch but Kim is across competently and guides the ball out of play.
Napoli 4-1 Liverpool
56 mins: Liverpool’s corner comes to nothing but the Reds are starting to push high up the pitch. Napoli are sitting back and keeping them out.
The Reds send the ball over to Luis Diaz on the left but he’s tracked down by Matteo Politano who wins his team a throw in deep in his own half.
Napoli 4-1 Liverpool
53 mins: Mo Salah hasn’t been on it all season, he’s in a terrible run of form and his touch is abandoning him.
He makes a smart run into the box from the right as the ball comes over the top, he tries to bring it down but knocks the ball away from his own body and luckily a Napoli defender boots it behind for a corner.
GOAL! Napoli 4-1 Liverpool (49’, Diaz)⚽️
49 mins: Liverpool get one back!
Luis Diaz sparks hopes of a Liverpool comeback with a swerving, curling effort from 20-yards out that nestles into the back of the net.
Is a magic European night on the cards for the Reds?
GOAL! Napoli 4-0 Liverpool (47’, Zielinski)⚽️
47 mins: Four! Napoli add to their tally within 90 seconds of the second half kicking off.
Liverpool win a corner that comes to Joel Matip who heads it straight at Alex Meret. Napoli restart quickly and work the ball over to the right before sending it into Piotr Zielinski.
He breezes past Virgil van Dijk and shoots forcing Alisson into a sharp save to his right. The ball spills loose though and Zielinski is back onto it, lifting it above the sprawled goalkeeper to score his second of the night.
Second half: Napoli 3-0 Liverpool
Kick off: Liverpool get the ball rolling for the start of the second half. Joel Matip is on for the Reds with Joe Gomez taken off after a torrid first half performance.
Matip must have a knock of some kind or else he would have started the game.
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