Ajax Amsterdam are still hoping they might snatch the Dutch title tomorrow after blowing a comfortable nine-point lead over the last month but now need a favour to win the league.
Ajax’s dramatic 2-2 draw at Groningen in their penultimate match on Wednesday was their fourth game in a row without a win and allowed defending champions PSV Eindhoven to take a one-point lead going into the last round of fixtures.
PSV will retain the title if they beat Sparta Rotterdam away tomorrow but any other result opens the door for Ajax, captained by England international Jordan Henderson, as long as they beat Twente at home at the same time.
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Sparta are managed by former Ajax coach Maurice Steijn, who they fired last season but now hope can do them a favour.
“This week proved that it is not over until the moment it is over. If football teaches us one thing, it is that anything can happen,” said Ajax coach Francesco Farioli, whose side were nine points clear with five games left.
“Let’s prepare ourselves to play the game of our lives on Sunday. And then let’s hope that someone else does what Groningen did to us.”