📏 Form Guide

FC Volendam

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FC Volendam will be hoping to bounce back here following the 1-0 Eredivisie losing effort in their last game against Sparta Rotterdam.

In that match, FC Volendam had 52% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Sparta Rotterdam got 10 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Tobias Lauritsen (75') was the scorer for Sparta Rotterdam.

FC Volendam have been quite ineffective in attack of late. Their goals record stands at just 4 versus opposition teams over the course of their last 6 matches. In those meetings, FC Volendam have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them total 12. We shall soon see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Going into this encounter, FC Volendam have not been beaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Ajax

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In their previous game, Ajax drew 2-2 in the Eredivisie tie with Excelsior.

In that game, Ajax had 57% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Ajax, the scorers were Devyne Rensch (27') and Chuba Akpom (89'). Excelsior got 9 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Julian Baas (38') and Lazaros Lamprou (53') scored for Excelsior.

The stats don’t lie, and Ajax have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 13 goals in all. In defence, Ajax have not been doing too well.

👥 Head to head

An inspection of past results between these clubs going back to 15/02/2004 tells us that these encounters have not been happy ones for FC Volendam. They’ve not been able to get any victories at all while Ajax have been too good for them, winning in 83 per cent of those games played.

An aggregate of 18 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 5 from Het Andere Oranje and 13 belonging to de Godenzonen. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was Eredivisie match day 5 on 02/11/2023 and the score finished Ajax 2-0 FC Volendam.

The match was refereed by Martin van den Kerkhof.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Volendam

We are thinking that Het Andere Oranje may well make use of the 4-3-3 system in the match, utilising Mio Backhaus, Brian Plat, Damon Mirani, Josh Flint, George Cox, Calvin Twigt, Milan de Haan, Luke Le Roux, Zach Booth, Vivaldo and Darius Johnson.

📋 Team News: Ajax

Ajax boss John van 't Schip has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Amourricho Van Axel-Dongen (unknown injury), Steven Berghuis (Back injury), Gastón Ávila (Knee injury), Jay Gorter (Hand injury), Kristian Hlynsson (unknown injury) and Diant Ramaj (Elbow injury) will miss out on this game.

From our viewpoint, de Godenzonen will likely make use of a 4-3-3 system, settling for Geronimo Rulli, Devyne Rensch, Ahmetcan Kaplan, Josip Sutalo, Jorrel Hato, Jordan Henderson, Kenneth Taylor, S. H. Mannsverk, Chuba Akpom, Brian Brobbey and Mika Godts.

✨ Prediction

We envisage that Ajax are likely to create a decent amount of chances and shots on target.

At the other end, FC Volendam could well find it tough to find the back of the net but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be being dangerous at times, too.

We can therefore see a controlled 1-3 win for Ajax after 90 minutes.

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Andre Moura, 12:06 05/05/2024