📊 Form Guide

AZ

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AZ, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 3-1 Europa League success vs Fenerbahçe.

In that game, AZ had 47% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. For AZ, the goals were scored by Ro-Zangelo Daal (59'), Kees Smit (75') and Denso Kasius (87'). On the other side, Fenerbahce got 11 shots on goal with 6 on target. Youssef En-Nesyri (70') scored for Fenerbahçe.

It’s not been often in recent times that AZ have shown defensive steel. In fact, AZ have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 10 goals on the way. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this next game, though.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that AZ:

• have not been beaten in the league by Willem II in their previous 4 games.
• have not won at home in their last 3 league matches.

Willem II

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against FC Twente in Eredivisie action, Willem II and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Willem II had 47% possession and 8 shots on goal with 1 on target. For their opponents, FC Twente got 19 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Sam Lammers (58') was the scorer for FC Twente.

The attacking players from Willem II have suffered from a lack of goals over their last 6 encounters, netting the unsatisfactory return of just 4. In those matches, Tricolores have also seen the overall goal aggregate against them equal 6.

Coming into this contest, Willem II haven't won against AZ when having played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their past head-to-head meetings going back to 06/10/2019 shows that AZ have won 3 of them & Willem II 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 24 in total at an average of 4 goals per match.

The previous league fixture between these sides was Eredivisie match day 27 on 20/03/2022 when the final score was Willem II 2-2 AZ.

On that day, Willem II had 25% possession and 5 shots at goal with 2 on target. The scorers were Che Nunnely (7') and Elton Kabangu (17').

AZ had 22 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Bruno Martins Indi (35') and Zakaria Aboukhlal (91') scored.

The match was refereed by Rob Dieperink.

📋 Team News: AZ

Ibrahim Sadiq (unknown injury), Lewis Schouten (unknown injury), Sem Westerveld (Meniscus injury), Jordy Clasie (Back injury), Zico Buurmeester (unknown injury), Bruno Martins Indi (Muscle injury), Lequincio Zeefuik (unknown injury), Kristijan Belic (unknown injury) and Ruben van Bommel (Toe injury) are unavailable for AZ manager Maarten Martens.

In our view, AZ could opt for a 4-2-3-1 formation featuring Rome Owusu-Oduro, Denso Kasius, Alexandre Penetra, Maxim Dekker, Mees de Wit, Dave Kwakman, Peer Koopmeiners, Jayden Addai, Sven Mijnans, Mayckel Lahdo and Troy Parrott.

📋 Team News: Willem II

We’re of the thinking that Tricolores could decide to utilise a 4-1-3-2 lineup, giving starts to Thomas Didillon, Mickael Tirpan, Raffael Behounek, Tommy St. Jago, R. T. Sigurgeirsson, Amine Lachkar, Amar Fatah, Jesse Bosch, Ringo Meerveld, Cisse Sandra and Kyan Vaesen.

✨ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that AZ will probably have the majority of the possession and should be able to turn a few of their chances into goals.

In contrast, Willem II will be up against it to make a breakthrough although we do think that they will probably end up scoring here as well.

We’re predicting a comfortable 3-1 victory for AZ at the conclusion of the game.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 15:00 10/11/2024