Jong AZ vs Helmond Sport Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Jong AZ

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Jong AZ are hoping to win again following the 1-3 Eerste Divisie victory versus FC Oss.

For Jong AZ, goals were scored by Fedde de Jong (31'), Sem Dekkers (78') and Mexx Meerdink (84'). Jearl Margaritha (86') was the scorer for FC Oss.

It’s been seldom in recent games that Jong AZ have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Jong AZ have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 7 goals during that time.

Leading up to this clash, Jong AZ:

• are winless against Helmond Sport when playing them at home in the previous 2 league games.
• are without a win at home for the past 3 league matches.

Helmond Sport

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Last time out, Helmond Sport drew 2-2 in the Eerste Divisie match with NAC Breda.

For Helmond Sport, the goalscorers were Eros Maddy (28') and Martijn Kaars (55'). Jort van der Sande (16') and Odysseus Velanas (56') scored for NAC Breda.

In 5 of the past six clashes involving Helmond Sport, a relatively low number of goals have gone in between them and their opponents. The overall average number of goals per game during that spell is a mere 1.83, with the number of goals averaged by Helmond standing at 0.83. It will be interesting to see if that trend can be sustained in this game.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 09/12/2019 shows us that Jong AZ have won 3 of these games and Helmond Sport 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

In all, 19 goals were produced between them in this period, with 11 of them from Jong AZ and 8 for Helmond. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The previous league meeting featuring these sides was Eerste Divisie match day 2 on 12/08/2022 when it ended Helmond Sport 1-3 Jong AZ.

The referee was Robin Vereijken.

🗞️ Team News: Jong AZ

The Jong AZ manager Maarten Martens will be happy not to have any fitness worries to speak of ahead of this clash owing to a completely injury-free group available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: Helmond Sport

Thanks to a fully healthy group available to choose from, the Helmond Sport boss Bob Peeters does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this match.

🔮 Prediction

In this match, Jong AZ have it within them to dominate possession and create several successful chances.

However, Helmond Sport could well struggle finding the net themselves but do we see them converting at least once as well.

We reckon that it will be a pretty comfortable 3-1 victory for Jong AZ at the end of the 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 01:24 19/01/2023