NEC vs FC Utrecht Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

NEC

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NEC won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 1-0 Eredivisie loss in their previous game against Ajax.

Mohammed Kudus (52') was the scorer for Ajax.

An interesting theme in recent NEC games is the number of results with a nil in them.

Taking their prior sextet of matches leading up to this one, in as many as 5 of them a wager on "Both Teams to Score" would've been a loser.

Looking at their past form shows that NEC:

• have not emerged victorious against FC Utrecht in their last 6 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their previous 11 home league matches. They have been so resilient here.

FC Utrecht

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Since a loss in their previous game against Fortuna Sittard in Eredivisie competition, FC Utrecht and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

The only scorer from FC Utrecht was Tasos Douvikas (59'). Kristijan Bistrović (68') and Tijjani Noslin (87') scored for Fortuna Sittard.

The numbers tell their own story, and FC Utrecht have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 11 goals in total. At the back, FC Utrecht have clearly had some problems. We will just have to see if that trend can be continued on here.

Coming into this meeting, FC Utrecht are undefeated by NEC when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings stretching back to 10/04/2016 reveals that these encounters have not been kind to NEC. They’ve not managed to come away with any wins whatsoever whereas FC Utrecht have been too good for them, running out winners in 67 per cent of those ties.

13 goals were scored between them in this period, with 2 of them for NEC and 11 belonging to Utreg. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.17.

The last league fixture between the two was Eredivisie match day 7 on 16/09/2022 which ended up with the score at FC Utrecht 0-0 NEC.

The referee was Marc Nagtegaal.

📋 Team News: NEC

Robin Roefs (Unknown Injury), Magnus Mattsson (Ankle Injury), Mathias De Wolf (Hamstring Injury) and Jordy Bruijn (Knee Injury) won’t be available for NEC boss Rogier Meijer.

It’s our opinion that NEC should line up in a 4-2-3-1 system for the game 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.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Utrecht

FC Utrecht manager Michael Silberbauer has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Can Bozdogan (Knee Injury), Django Warmerdam (Knee Injury), Bas Dost (Unknown Injury), Luuk Brouwers (Ankle Injury) and Nick Viergever (Fractured Toe) are not ready for selection.

From our viewpoint, Utreg seem most likely to play in a 4-3-3 system with a starting lineup of Vasilios Barkas, Sean Klaiber, Mike van der Hoorn, Modibo Sagnan, Mark van der Maarel, Othman Boussaid, Jens Toornstra, Sander van de Streek, Victor Jensen, Anastasios Douvikas and Naoki Maeda.

💭 Prediction

In our view, FC Utrecht and NEC won’t have much between them here, and goals could be hard to come by.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level and two clean sheets. We therefore see a hard-fought 0-0 score at full-time.

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

Victor Martins, 02:31 08/03/2023