Ajax beat Groningen 5-2 in five-goal Eredivisie rout

Ajax beat FC Groningen 5-2 at the Euroborg on Sunday, 18 October 2026, Goal.com reported. Julian Brandt put Ajax ahead, and Aaron Bouwman made it 0-2 from a corner.

Groningen's Brynjolfur Willumsson pulled a goal back just after half-time following a turnover in Ajax's half, Goal.com said, before Brandt scored his second to make it 1-3. Jorthy Mokio then scored twice, tapping in from a corner and then finishing what the report described as "a measured shot" to make it 1-5, before Thom van Bergen scored a late consolation for Groningen.

Goal.com reported that Ajax, managed by Michel Sanchez, scored five goals in a match for the third time this Eredivisie season, and that the win ended what the report called "the negativity of recent weeks."

The photograph above shows the Euroborg stadium in Groningen, where this match was played, not action from the game. Credit: Kevster, "Euroborg", Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0.

Sources: Goal.com.