RKC Waalwijk vs NEC Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

RKC Waalwijk

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RKC Waalwijk will be hoping to bounce back here following a 0-1 Eredivisie defeat last time out to PSV Eindhoven.

Johan Bakayoko (35') was the scorer for PSV Eindhoven.

It has been all too rare in recent times where RKC Waalwijk have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that RKC Waalwijk have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 7 goals along the way.

Coming into this meeting, RKC Waalwijk have not registered a win against NEC in their last 2 league games.

NEC

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In their previous fixture, NEC drew 2-2 in the Eredivisie tie with FC Utrecht.

The only scorer from NEC was Landry Dimata (31', 48'). Bas Dost (63') and Othmane Boussaid (67') scored for FC Utrecht.

In the course of their six previous matches, Rogier Meijer's NEC have found the back of the net a total of 12 times - yielding them the goals per game average of 2.

Coming into this clash, NEC have not won against RKC Waalwijk in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 22/04/2019 tells us that RKC Waalwijk have won 2 of them and NEC 3, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

20 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 8 of them for RKC and 12 belonging to NEC. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.

The previous league fixture between these sides was Eredivisie match day 14 on 13/11/2022 which ended up with the score at NEC 6-1 RKC Waalwijk.

The referee was Martin Perez.

📰 Team News: RKC Waalwijk

Regarding absentees, there’s just a single fitness concern for the RKC Waalwijk manager Joseph Oosting to contend with from of an almost fully healthy group of players. Mika Biereth (Unknown Injury) is out of contention.

In all likelihood, RKC Waalwijk may well opt for a 3-4-1-2 system for the game with Etienne Vaessen, Dario van den Buijs, Shawn Adewoye, Jurien Gaari, Julian Lelieveld, Thierry Lutonda, Pelle Clement, Vurnon Anita, Yassin Oukili, Michiel Kramer and Mats Seuntjens.

ℹ️ Team News: NEC

NEC manager Rogier Meijer has multiple availability issues to deal with. Mathias De Wolf (Hamstring Injury) and Robin Roefs (Unknown Injury) miss out here.

We are inclined to think that NEC seem likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 system, going with Jasper Cillessen, Bart van Rooij, Ivan Marquez, Philippe Sandler, Souffian Elkarouani, Lasse Schoene, Dirk Proper, Elayis Tavsan, Oussama Tannane, Ibrahim Cissoko and Landry Dimata.

✨ Prediction

We’re thinking that NEC and RKC Waalwijk could find scoring goals difficult here.

A scoreless draw looks like a real possibility, but we’ll see what happens. That’s why we have predicted a close game with a 0-0 score by the conclusion of this game.

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

Victor Martins, 02:24 14/03/2023