There should be a significant difference in quality between these teams based on table positions so far, with AZ Alkmaar leading PEC Zwolle by 25 points.
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Europa League. This match was also played here at AFAS Stadion. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, PEC Zwolle have had more rest.
6-4-22 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for PEC Zwolle when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 32 matches are 21-68 (scored/conceded).
AZ Alkmaar form and stats
AZ Alkmaar, who have the most clean sheets (14) in Eredivisie, are steadily winning Eredivisie games and points here at AFAS Stadion. 8 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 11 games.
The home supporters saw a 1-1 draw versus LASK Linz in the Europa League last time out and are looking for a win here. Heartbreak before that as AZ Alkmaar lost 0-2 at FC Twente's place.
AZ Alkmaar are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found four matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won one, drew one and lost two.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for AZ Alkmaar as they are travelling to their away game against LASK Linz in the Europa League. That match is four days after this one.
Goals decide football matches and AZ Alkmaar are scoring many of them at home; 26 on target from 11 league matches. From these home matches, AZ Alkmaar have conceded only 8 goals.
PEC Zwolle form and stats
There's been little loot from PEC Zwolle's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 12 away games in the Eredivisie. PEC Zwolle only have 2 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 2 draws. PEC Zwolle has drawn their two previous away games.
PEC Zwolle failed to get anything from their last game, a Eredivisie home match vs Feyenoord (placed 3rd) that ended with defeat 3-4. Before that, PEC Zwolle travelled to RKC Waalwijk and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.
A huge disappointment for PEC Zwolle in their last match (vs Feyenoord). Leading 2-0 the victory seemed almost certain, but a fascinating collapse turned everything around and in the end all was lost in a 3-4 defeat. A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for PEC Zwolle, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun? It's a bit worrying for PEC Zwolle that their goalkeeper Michael Zetterer made six saves in the Feyenoord game last time out, but still couldn''t prevent the loss.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where PEC Zwolle played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected four times.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting PEC Zwolle as they have only managed to score 8 times from 12 away games in the league. PEC Zwolle have conceded 22 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
AZ Alkmaar and PEC Zwolle have met before this season: PEC Zwolle - AZ Alkmaar 0-3. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): AZ Alkmaar six wins, four draws and PEC Zwolle zero victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Boadu 13 goals |  O. Idrissi 12 goals |  T. Koopmeiners 7 goals |
AZ Alkmaar missing players
PEC Zwolle missing players
| AZ Alkmaar | PEC Zwolle | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 23 |
| 15 | 8 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | 13 |
| 46 | 26 | 12 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 32 |
| 17 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 8 | 22 | 49 |
| 95% | 91% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 83% | 91% |
| 82% | 73% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 78% |
| 64% | 64% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 58% | 74% |
| 27% | 45% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 33% | 57% |
| 9% | 18% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 8% | 22% |
| 27% | 27% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 42% | 57% |
| 64% | 73% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 17% | 13% |
| 14% | 9% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 75% | 58% | 39% |
| 6.6 | 8.4 | 8.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 4.8 | 4.4 |
| 3.4 | 2.5 | 0.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 7.4 | 6.7 |
| 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 318 | 193 | 89 | Total Shots | T S | 56 | 151 | 282 |
| 117 | 60 | 34 | Shots on Target | S O | 21 | 55 | 108 |
| 39% | 43% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 5% | 15% | 30% |
- AZ Alkmaar has the fewest conceded goals (17)
- AZ Alkmaar has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7)
- AZ Alkmaar has the most clean sheets (14)
- AZ Alkmaar has the most clean sheets (8) at home
- AZ Alkmaar have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- AZ Alkmaar have scored at least twice as many goals at home as PEC Zwolle have scored away.
- AZ Alkmaar have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- AZ Alkmaar have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- PEC Zwolle have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ajax | 22 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 65 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 46 | 53 |
| 2 | AZ Alkmaar | 22 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 46 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 9 | 29 | 47 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 45 | 33 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 19 | 12 | 43 |
| 4 | PSV | 23 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 50 | 26 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 24 | 42 |
| 5 | Willem II | 23 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 32 | 27 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 5 | 41 |
| 6 | Vitesse | 23 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 40 | 29 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 38 |
| 7 | FC Utrecht | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 42 | 30 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 23 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 35 |
| 8 | FC Groningen | 23 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 35 |
| 9 | Sparta Rotterdam | 24 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 35 | 39 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 24 | -4 | 30 |
| 10 | Heracles | 23 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 35 | 32 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 29 |
| 11 | SC Heerenveen | 23 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 35 | 34 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 29 |
| 12 | FC Twente | 23 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 31 | 40 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 21 | -9 | 27 |
| 13 | FC Emmen | 23 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 24 | 38 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 28 | -14 | 26 |
| 14 | Fortuna Sittard | 23 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 27 | 49 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 33 | -22 | 24 |
| 15 | VVV-Venlo | 23 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 23 | 48 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 27 | -25 | 24 |
| 16 | PEC Zwolle | 23 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 32 | 49 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 27 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 22 | -17 | 22 |
| 17 | ADO Den Haag | 23 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 48 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 31 | -25 | 17 |
| 18 | RKC Waalwijk | 24 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 23 | 55 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 36 | -32 | 12 |