FC Utrecht vs Excelsior Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

FC Utrecht

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FC Utrecht will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 2-0 Eredivisie losing effort in their last game against FC Twente.

Václav Černý (45') and Virgil Misidjan (64') scored for FC Twente.

It has been all too rare in recent times where FC Utrecht have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, FC Utrecht have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 7 goals along the way. Nevertheless, we must now wait to see if the trend will be maintained in this next game.

Their previous form shows that FC Utrecht:

• have not been beaten in the league by Excelsior in their last 8 matches. A long run without a loss.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 home league matches.

Excelsior

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Excelsior go into this match after a 2-0 Eredivisie win with the defeat of FC Volendam in their last outing.

The only name on the scoresheet from Excelsior was Marouan Azarkan (80'). Damon Mirani (18' Own goal) scored for FC Volendam.

In the course of their 6 latest matches, Marinus Dijkhuizen's Excelsior have converted 5 times thus yielding them a goals per game average of 0.83.

Coming into this contest, Excelsior haven’t won away from home in the past 8 league games. What a terrible run of away results.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head meetings going back to 04/04/2017 tells us that FC Utrecht have won 3 of these games and Excelsior 0, with the tally of draws being 3.

A combined total of 19 goals were scored between them in these games, with 12 of them for Utreg and 7 coming from Roodzwarten. The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The last league fixture featuring the two was Eredivisie match day 8 on 02/10/2022 when it ended Excelsior 0-1 FC Utrecht.

The match was refereed by Richard Martens.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Utrecht

Tommy St. Jago (Knee Injury), Bart Ramselaar (Knee Injury), Django Warmerdam (Knee Injury) and Ramon Hendriks (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) won’t be playing for FC Utrecht manager Michael Silberbauer.

📰 Team News: Excelsior

Excelsior boss Marinus Dijkhuizen has multiple availability issues to deal with. Yassin Ayoub (Muscle Injury), Kik Pierie (Muscle Injury) and Jacky Donkor (Knee Injury) are not able to play.

💭 Prediction

In this match, Excelsior must be fancied to find the net against this FC Utrecht team, although it might not be enough to avoid a loss.

Our tip is for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning score for FC Utrecht when the full-time whistle blows. Let’s see what happens here.

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

Andre Moura, 01:25 21/01/2023