Ajax one match away from Champions League quarter-finals

VICTORY for Ajax tonight against Valencia in Group B will secure the Dutch team’s place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Holland's most promising football talent, Rafael van der Vaart, returns to partner Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic up front for the tie against the Spaniards.

Fellow striker Ahmed Hossam, better known as Mido, has been banished to the reserves but the Egyptian is awaiting FIFA approval on a possible loan move to Spanish club Celta Vigo.