📏 Form Guide

RKC Waalwijk

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RKC Waalwijk will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 2-1 Eredivisie loss in their previous game against NEC.

In that game, RKC Waalwijk had 57% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for RKC Waalwijk was Michiel Kramer (79'). At the other end, NEC Nijmegen got 20 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Kodai Sano (46') and Bryan Linssen (92') scored for NEC.

RKC Waalwijk have been quite ineffective in attack of late. Their sum of goals equals just 4 versus opposition teams over their last six matches. In those games, RKC Waalwijk have also seen the tally of goals against them come to 11.

Looking at the pre-match facts, RKC Waalwijk:

• are winless against FC Utrecht in their previous 9 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 3 league games.

FC Utrecht

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FC Utrecht will come into the clash after a 4-0 Eredivisie win vs Ajax in their last game.

In that match, FC Utrecht managed 31% possession and 13 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. For FC Utrecht, goals were scored by Sébastien Haller (29'), Miguel Rodríguez (52', 63') and Paxten Aaronson (85'). Ajax got 7 shots at goal with 3 on target.

Showing their penchant for fruitful encounters, goals have been seen as many as 20 times in the previous six games in which FC Utrecht have played, giving an average of 3.33 goals each clash. Their opponents have managed 6 of these goals. Let’s find out whether or not that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

Analysis of their past results shows that FC Utrecht:

• have not beaten RKC Waalwijk when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• haven't been beaten by RKC Waalwijk in games played away from home for the previous 4 matches in the league. An impressive run.
• are unbeaten in their last 17 league matches away from home. It's hard to ask more than that.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 13/05/2023 tells us that these encounters have not been happy ones for RKC Waalwijk. They have not been able to get any wins whatsoever while FC Utrecht have maintained the edge over them, getting wins in 67% of those match-ups.

A combined total of 21 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 8 for RKC and 13 created by Utreg. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.5.

📰 Team News: RKC Waalwijk

Looking at personnel, there is just a single fitness concern for the RKC Waalwijk boss Henk Fraser to be concerned with from a near full-strength set of players. Yanick van Osch (unknown injury) is out of contention.

We are thinking that RKC Waalwijk could use a 4-3-3 system this time and select Jeroen Houwen, Faissal Al Mazyani, Julian Lelieveld, Liam van Gelderen, J. Familia-Castillo, Mohammed Ihattaren, Tim van de Loo, Yassin Oukili, Chris Lokesa, Michiel Kramer and Richonell Margaret.

🗞️ Team News: FC Utrecht

FC Utrecht manager Ron Jans has not got a full squad to pick from. Can Bozdogan (Ankle surgery), Niklas Vesterlund (Ankle injury) and Zidane Iqbal (Knee injury) will miss out on this game.

We are inclined to think that Utreg seem most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting Vasilios Barkas, Siebe Horemans, Mike van der Hoorn, Nick Viergever, Souffian El Karouani, Alonzo Engwanda, Paxten Aaronson, Miguel Rodriguez, Oscar Fraulo, Adrian Blake and Sebastien Haller.

💡 Prediction

In this game, RKC Waalwijk are capable enough to get a goal against this FC Utrecht team, although just one goal might not quite be enough to give them the result that they want.

We’re therefore tipping both teams to score in a 1-2 advantage for FC Utrecht at the end of the 90 minutes. There looks to be little in this one.

Lucas Pereira, 16:02 25/04/2025