Roda JC Kerkrade visit Sportpark De Toekomst on Friday for the Eerste Divisie showdown with home team Jong Ajax.
View all Jong Ajax v Roda JC Kerkrade tips, stats and our pre-match poll below - as well as the best betting odds.
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Form Guide
Jong Ajax
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Jong Ajax will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 3-1 Eerste Divisie loss in their previous game against Helmond Sport.
In that game, Jong Ajax had 62% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Jong Ajax was Tristan Gooijer (82'). Helmond Sport had 10 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Anthony van den Hurk (33', 42') and Pius Krätschmer (65') scored for Helmond Sport.
Fixtures involving Jong Ajax have usually been engaging encounters recently with high scoring anticipated. Over their past half dozen games, the sum of 20 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 10 of them belonging to Jong Ajax.
Going into this one, Jong Ajax haven't won against Roda JC Kerkrade in their previous 4 matches in the league.
Roda JC Kerkrade
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In their last game, Roda JC Kerkrade drew 1-1 in the Eerste Divisie match with De Graafschap.
In that match, Roda JC Kerkrade had 47% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Roda JC Kerkrade was Enrique Peña Zauner (4'). On the other side, De Graafschap had 12 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Maas Willemsen (85') was the scorer for De Graafschap.
Indicating their partiality to eventful matches, we’ve seen goals 22 times in the previous 6 games in which Roda JC Kerkrade have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 3.67 goals each meeting. Opposing teams have managed 6 of those goals. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to follow through into this match, of course.
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Head to head
Inspecting their past head to head clashes going back to 12/03/2021 shows us that Jong Ajax have won 1 of these & Roda JC Kerkrade 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 2.
A sum of 18 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 8 for Jong Ajax and 10 coming from De Koempels. That’s an average goals per game of 3.
The last league match featuring these clubs was Eerste Divisie match day 12 on 27/10/2023 and the score finished Roda JC Kerkrade 2-1 Jong Ajax.
In that match, Roda JC Kerkrade had 50% possession and 28 shots at goal with 11 of them on target. The goals were scored by Enrique Peña Zauner (14') and Walid Ould-Chikh (66').
Jong Ajax got 12 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Nassim Chourak (39') was the scorer.
The referee was Stan Teuben.
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Team News: Jong Ajax
The Jong Ajax boss Dave Vos does not have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this match owing to a completely healthy squad available for selection.
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Team News: Roda JC Kerkrade
Thanks to a mainly healthy group of players, there is just the sole fitness worry for the Roda JC Kerkrade manager Bas Sibum to be concerned with. Brian Koglin (Inflammation of pubic bone) misses out for this game.
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Prediction
Our assessment is that Jong Ajax should be able to find the back of the net against this Roda JC Kerkrade lineup, but one goal might not quite be enough.
We’ve gone for both teams to score in a 1-2 victory for Roda JC Kerkrade after 90 minutes. It should be a decent one.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Victor Martins,
02:09 25/04/2024
🏟️ Team Focus:
Jong Ajax
Formed: 1900
Stadium: Sportpark De Toekomst (2,250)
Captain: Olivier Aertssen
Chairman: Frank Eijken
Manager: Dave Vos
Competitions: Eerste Divisie position 14
⭐ Star Man: Gabriel Misehouy
Mostly deployed in the Central Attacking Midfielder position, Gabriel Misehouy was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Having made his senior debut playing for Jong Ajax in the 2021 - 2022 season, the goalscoring Midfielder has struck 7 league goals in the Eerste Divisie 2023 - 2024 campaign so far in 13 appearances.