RKC Waalwijk vs FC Utrecht Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

RKC Waalwijk

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RKC Waalwijk will be hoping for a better result after a 3-2 Eredivisie losing effort in their last game against AZ.

In that match, RKC Waalwijk had 29% possession and 5 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for RKC Waalwijk was David Min (3', 42'). For their opponents, AZ had 21 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Yukinari Sugawara (66'), Ibrahim Sadiq (75') and Vangelis Pavlidis (77') scored for AZ.

RKC Waalwijk have been conceding pretty frequently of late, although they’ve also done enough to convert their own chances into goals. Over their last 6 matches, RKC Waalwijk have conceded in 5 of them while also managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those games.

Leading up to this clash, RKC Waalwijk:

• haven't won against FC Utrecht in their previous 7 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their previous 3 home league matches.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 matches in the league.

FC Utrecht

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FC Utrecht will go into the match after a 2-1 Eredivisie win with the eclipse of Go Ahead Eagles in their last match.

In that game, FC Utrecht had 50% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For FC Utrecht, the goalscorers were Sam Lammers (4') and Can Bozdoğan (93'). Go Ahead Eagles got 14 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Gerrit Nauber (42') was the scorer for Go Ahead Eagles.

The stats tell the story, and FC Utrecht have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals overall. In defence, FC Utrecht have seen their frailties exposed. We will just have to see if that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

A look at their previous results shows us that FC Utrecht:

• have not beaten RKC Waalwijk in games played away from home for the previous 2 league matches.
• remain undefeated by RKC Waalwijk in games played away from home for the previous 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 18/09/2021 shows that RKC Waalwijk have won 0 of these & FC Utrecht 2, with the number of drawn matches standing at 4.

A combined total of 19 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 8 of them for RKC and 11 being from Utreg. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The last league fixture featuring these clubs was Eredivisie match day 23 on 16/12/2023 when the final score was FC Utrecht 1-1 RKC Waalwijk.

The match was refereed by Serdar Gözübüyük.

📰 Team News: RKC Waalwijk

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just a single fitness concern for the RKC Waalwijk gaffer Henk Fraser to be concerned with from an otherwise complete group. Nouri El Harmazi (Shoulder injury) won’t play.

📋 Team News: FC Utrecht

FC Utrecht manager Ron Jans has to currently contend with reduced team options. Jeppe Okkels (Knee injury), Marouan Azarkan (Muscle injury), Niklas Vesterlund (unknown injury), Mike van der Hoorn (unknown injury), Taylor Booth (Knee injury) and Tim Handwerker (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be making appearances.

🧠 Prediction

Our thinking is that RKC Waalwijk may not find it easy to hit the back of the net against this FC Utrecht outfit who should end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

We’re therefore anticipating a good tussle with a 0-1 winning margin for FC Utrecht at the end of the 90 minutes.

Should be an interesting one.

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Peter Guest, 13:15 26/04/2024