Ajax vs Sporting Lisbon Odds: Dutch side to notch themselves into the history books

The Champions League standings for Group C might be definitive, but you just try telling that to Erik Ten Hag's Ajax! The Dutch outfit have convincingly swept aside all opponents in this year's competition, and will enter the knockout stage as group winners, currently boasting a +13 goal difference as the cherry on top of their beautiful European sundae.

While the table can't be shaken up, Tuesday night does however offer a different type of reward for Ajax. They, along with Bayern Munich and Liverpool, have the chance to become one of only seven teams to ever win all six of their UCL group matches.

Meanwhile, Sporting Lisbon have also secured their spot in the first knockout round regardless of a win, loss or draw in this one. A win could help keep up their momentum and lay down a marker for whoever they may face next.

Antony is performing like two different players between the Eredivisie and the Champions League this term. The Brazilian is something of a goalscorer in Ajax's domestic league, banging in five goals without providing a single one for his teammates. However, in the UCL, the story is flipped on its head - the 21-year-old has scored just once but provided an assist for four of the 16 goals they've scored in the competition so far.

He can quite frankly do no wrong with joint top scorer Sebastien Haller getting on the end of his decisive passes; the big forward having netted nine times from five appearances so far. I'm suspecting that a similar scenario could play out here, with Ajax determined to turn on the style and land themselves that coveted sixth group game win.

11/5 with Betfair for an anytime assist from the competition's joint-second highest contributor in this department seems very generous.

Ajax go into this one as the understandable odds-on favourites and it's difficult to see them not delivering the goods. The Dutch side have won all five of their games so far, including a conclusive 5-1 victory in this exact fixture in gameweek 1. This only extends further when it comes to the Eredivisie, where Ten Hag's men have won 11 of their 15 league games, with just a single loss to their name across the entire season thus far.

Between the two of them, they have contributed 28 goals to this year's Champions League group stage total, with Ajax netting 16 of those and Sporting the remaining 12. In their five UCL matches, three of Ajax's have seen three or more goals scored, while four of Sporting's have hit this line - including the previous meeting between the pair.

As for Sebastien Haller, the ex-West Ham target man is playing like a person possessed. He's currently the competition's joint top scorer alongside Robert Lewandowski, having scored nine times. He streak in Europe is very impressive, with him on the scoresheet twice last time out vs Besiktas, and him opening up his campaign with a quadruple of goals against Sporting back in September.

This exact bet is shorter than 2/1 elsewhere with Paddy Power so the 3/1 at Bet365 is rather appealing.