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Ajax remembered: Dutch masters beat Milan in the 1995 Champions League final

It has been 20 years since Ajax stunned European heavyweights Milan, so talkSPORT remembers one of the competition's great sides. Having lost 1-0 to Marseille in the 1993 final, then thrashing Barcelona 4-0 to lift the trophy a year later, Milan were aiming for successive Champions League victories when they turned up at Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion on 24 May, 1995. And with the experience and class of Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini and Marcel Desailly in the team, they appeared too strong for Ajax. However, with Louis van Gaal at the helm, the team, with an average age of 23 and consisting of many academy graduates, won 1-0 with 18-year-old substitute Patrick Kluivert coming on to...
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