Tolu eyes Patrick Kluivert benchmark in Ajax trip to Twente

Tolu will have the chance to match a Patrick Kluivert scoring benchmark when Ajax visit FC Twente at De Grolsch Veste. According to VI, another goal from the starting line-up would put the striker level with the former Netherlands international’s feat from the 1994/95 campaign.

The forward, who is on loan at Ajax from Wolverhampton Wanderers, has scored six Eredivisie goals this season. Five have come in matches he started, with Tolu finding the net against Telstar, PSV, NEC, Sparta Rotterdam and AZ.

His only league start without a goal came away to Fortuna Sittard. Nevertheless, scoring while starting against Twente would see him equal the Kluivert mark highlighted by VI.

Kluivert began his own sequence by scoring on his Ajax debut against RKC. He subsequently struck against Vitesse, Roda JC, Dordrecht ’90, Go Ahead Eagles and SC Heerenveen before FC Utrecht became the first opponent against whom he failed to score from the starting line-up. That run came during an exceptional season for Ajax, who won the Champions League under Louis van Gaal. Kluivert scored the decisive goal in the 1-0 final victory over AC Milan.