Ajax Amsterdam: 1-Maarten Stekelenburg; 2-Gregory van der Wiel, 3-Toby Alderweireld, 13-Andre Ooijer, 5-Vurnon Anita; 20-Demy de Zeeuw, 10-Siem de Jong, 6-Eyong Enoh; 7-Miralem Sulejmani, 9-Mounir El Hamdaoui, 11-Urby Emanuelson.

Champions League / Group Stage

Bernabéu / 15.09.2010

Real Madrid

Completed

Ajax

V. Anita(31' O.G)
G. Higuaín(73')

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ByMike Hytner

Updated 15/09/2010 at 20:35 GMT

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Highlights

There goes the final whistle and Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid start their Champions League campaign with a win!

89'

Higuain squares a lovely ball across the face of goal and Ronaldo has an open net to pass into but completely misses the ball. What's up with him?!

88'

REAL MADRID SUB: Ozil, who has been excellent, makes way for Canales - another fine young talent signed from Racing Santander.

86'

Ajax look devoid of confidence but you can hardly blame them. They've barely seen the ball in this second half.

85'

Ronaldo goes solo but still no goal for the Portuguese. Great footwork to earn the space but no end product.

84'

REAL MADRID SUB: Diarra is brought on in place of Alonso as Mourinho looks to sure things up in midfield.

82'

Ronaldo cuts in from the left with a neat flick but, of course, has a go for goal instead of crossing and Stekelenburg is wise to it.

80'

REAL MADRID SUB: Di Maria is replaced by Leon.

78'

Sulejmani forces Casillas into a good save with a volley and follows it up with another effort but the Spanish stopper is quickly to his feet to punch clear.

76'

Higuain spins on the edge of the box after a lovely Ronaldo lay-off but his shot is just wide! Great effort.

74'

Ozil showed a cool head there to look up and find Higuain when it would have been easy to have another dig at goal.

73'

GOAL! Di Maria lifts a sublime ball over the top to Ozil. The German volleys goalwards but Stekelenburg saves. The ball falls back at Ozil's feet and the former Werder Bremen man squares for Higuain to tap home. 2-0. Game over.

71'

Raúl González (323 goals in 741 games) and Guti (77/542) departed the Santiago Bernabéu during the summer.

70'

Ajax have seen barely any of the ball over the last 10 minutes and that doesn't look like changing with a Real free-kick on the right flank after Di Maria was brought down by Anita.

68'

AJAX SUB: de Zeeuw is replaced by Tainio.

67'

Ronaldo really should be hitting the target from there. He had plenty of time to compose himself.

66'

Di Maria picks out Ronaldo on the edge of the box but the Portuguese can't find the target, instead putting his side-footed shot wide.

64'

Alderweireld has a dig from the free-kick but drags his shot wide of Casillas' left post.

62'

Ajax have a great opportunity to make their mark here after a man is brought down 25-yards out just left of centre...

60'

De Jong gets in a muddle in his own box to give away a corner. It's swung into the near post but fails to beat the first man.

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