📊 Form Guide

RKC Waalwijk

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RKC Waalwijk will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 2-0 Eredivisie loss in their previous game against Feyenoord.

In that game, RKC Waalwijk had 46% possession and 6 shots at goal with 1 on target. At the other end, Feyenoord got 22 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Igor Paixão (45') and Ayase Ueda (69') scored for Feyenoord.

It has been all too rare in recent games where RKC Waalwijk have shown defensive steel. In fact, RKC Waalwijk have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 15 goals on the way. That aside, time will tell whether such a trend shall be sustained in this upcoming game or not.

Going into this encounter, RKC Waalwijk are winless against Go Ahead Eagles in their previous 4 matches in the league.

Go Ahead Eagles

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Go Ahead Eagles head into the encounter following a 1-0 Eredivisie win versus SC Heerenveen in their previous outing.

In that match, Go Ahead Eagles had 50% possession and 11 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for Go Ahead Eagles was Mathis Suray (89'). For their opponents, SC Heerenveen had 20 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target.

In 5 of the previous six games involving Go Ahead Eagles, a relatively low number of goals have been scored between them and opposing teams. The overall average goals scored per game in that period comes to just 1.67, with the number of goals averaged by Trots aan de IJssel equalling 0.67.

Analysis of their past results shows that Go Ahead Eagles:

• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 league matches away from home.
• are without a win away from home in their last 4 league games.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 15/01/2022 shows us that RKC Waalwijk have won 2 of them & Go Ahead Eagles 4, with the tally of drawn results standing at 0.

A sum of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 7 of them for RKC and 8 netted by Trots aan de IJssel. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.

The previous league meeting featuring these sides was Eredivisie match day 3 on 25/08/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Go Ahead Eagles 2-0 RKC Waalwijk.

On that day, Go Ahead Eagles had 67% possession and 20 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The goalscorers were Bobby Adekanye (3') and Finn Stokkers (60').

At the other end, RKC Waalwijk got 8 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Joey Kooij.

📋 Team News: RKC Waalwijk

There is just the sole fitness concern for the RKC Waalwijk manager Henk Fraser to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength group of players. Yanick van Osch (unknown injury) won’t play.

It’s our opinion that RKC Waalwijk could opt for a 4-3-1-2 formation for the game, beginning the first half with Mark Spenkelink, Faissal Al Mazyani, Roshon van Eijma, Liam van Gelderen, J. Familia-Castillo, Julian Lelieveld, Tim van de Loo, Yassin Oukili, Mohammed Ihattaren, Richonell Margaret and Oskar Zawada.

🗞️ Team News: Go Ahead Eagles

Go Ahead Eagles boss Paul Simonis has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Dean James (Hamstring injury), Søren Tengstedt (Broken foot) and Jakob Breum (Foot injury) are not able to play.

We reckon that Trots aan de IJssel might begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup using Jari De Busser, Mats Deijl, Gerrit Nauber, Joris Kramer, Aske Adelgaard, Robbin Weijenberg, Evert Linthorst, Oliver Antman, Mathis Suray, Victor Edvardsen and O. Siira Sivertsen.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the view that RKC Waalwijk have the capability to find the back of the net against this Go Ahead Eagles side, although one goal might not quite be enough to prevent defeat.

Therefore, we’re predicting both teams to score in a 1-2 winning margin for Go Ahead Eagles at the end of this one. Looking forward to this.

Victor Martins, 12:03 18/05/2025