📏 Form Guide

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RKC Waalwijk

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RKC Waalwijk will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 2-0 Eredivisie defeat in their last game at the hands of Go Ahead Eagles.

In that match, RKC Waalwijk managed 33% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 2 on target. At the other end, Go Ahead Eagles had 20 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Bobby Adekanye (3') and Finn Stokkers (60') scored for Go Ahead Eagles.

It’s been seldom in recent games that RKC Waalwijk haven’t conceded. In fact, RKC Waalwijk have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 13 goals in the process. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be continued into this game, though.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that RKC Waalwijk:

• are winless against AZ in their previous 3 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 5 league matches. Fans are getting restless.

AZ

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In their previous game, AZ drew 0-0 in the Eredivisie tie with FC Groningen.

In that game, AZ had 56% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For their opponents, FC Groningen had 2 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

A sequence of accomplished displays by the AZ defensive unit has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 4 from their previous 6 fixtures overall. Over that same period, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 10.

Coming into this clash, AZ are unbeaten in their last 4 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings dating back to 09/02/2022 shows us that RKC Waalwijk have won 2 of these and AZ 4, with the tally of drawn games being 0.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 24 in total at an average of 4 goals per meeting.

The last league contest featuring the two was Eredivisie match day 30 on 13/04/2024 which ended up with the score at AZ 3-2 RKC Waalwijk.

In that match, AZ managed 71% possession and 21 shots on goal with 7 on target. The goals were scored by Yukinari Sugawara (66'), Ibrahim Sadiq (75') and Vangelis Pavlidis (77').

For their opponents, RKC Waalwijk had 5 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. David Min (3', 42') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Marc Nagtegaal.

📋 Team News: RKC Waalwijk

Luuk Wouters (unknown injury) and Nouri El Harmazi (Shoulder injury) are not available for RKC Waalwijk manager Henk Fraser.

It’s our opinion that RKC Waalwijk will possibly make use of the 4-2-3-1 system for this one, beginning the first half with Jeroen Houwen, Julian Lelieveld, Roshon van Eijma, Dario van den Buijs, Aaron Meijers, Godfried Roemeratoe, Daouda Weidmann, Denilho Cleonise, J. Familia-Castillo, Chris Lokesa and Richonell Margaret.

📰 Team News: AZ

AZ boss Maarten Martens has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Sem Westerveld (Meniscus injury), Ernest Poku (Hip injury), Jeroen Zoet (muscular problems), Mayckel Lahdo (Knock), Bruno Martins Indi (Hamstring injury), Lewis Schouten (unknown injury) and Mees de Wit (Foot injury) won’t be making appearances.

We are inclined to think that AZ appear most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 system by sending out Rome Owusu-Oduro, Seiya Maikuma, Wouter Goes, Alexandre Penetra, David Moeller Wolfe, Jordy Clasie, Peer Koopmeiners, Ibrahim Sadiq, Sven Mijnans, Ruben van Bommel and Troy Parrott.

💭 Prediction

In our opinion, RKC Waalwijk have the firepower to find the back of the net against this AZ side, although one goal may not prevent defeat.

Our tip is for a very close game with a 1-2 winning margin for AZ after the 90. Should be a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 17:10 30/08/2024