Suarez handed two-match ban

Ajax will be without Luis Suarez for the first two games of the Eredivisie season after his sending-off in the Johan Cruyff Plate clash with FC Twente yesterday.

The Uruguay striker, infamously dismissed for his country in the World Cup after a last-minute handball on the goal-line in the quarter-final against Ghana, saw red once again after a reckless lunge at Cheik Tiote and will miss matches against Groningen and Vitesse Arnhem.