Soccer match preview: AZ confident before travelling to RKC Waalwijk

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sun 20.Aug
Match begins: 14:45 (UTC)
Venue: Mandemakers Stadion (7500 seats)

It's only match two of the Eredivisie for these contenders. And there's points to play for here at Mandemakers Stadion as RKC Waalwijk greet AZ. Read this preview!

5 - 2 - 4 with 19-14. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for AZ when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. AZ play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.

AZ could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Europa Conference League game only three sleeps ago.

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RKC Waalwijk form and stats

The previous season, RKC Waalwijk's league statistics were 11 wins, 8 draws and 15 losses, producing 9th spot in the Eredivisie. Over these 34 matches they scored {50 goals} and conceded 64. Playing as the home side in the former season RKC Waalwijk managed 9-3-5 (win-draw-lost) with {34 goals} and 26 conceded.

RKC Waalwijk are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-3 away versus SC Heerenveen. Vaessen had a busy but productive day in the SC Heerenveen match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented. Midfield player Bakkali got a match rating of 7.42 in that game, the max score being 10. Bakkali hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 19 successful passes (of 23 total).

Heartbreak before that as RKC Waalwijk lost 0-4 at SC Cambuur's place.

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AZ form and stats

Let's have a look at how AZ performed last season in the Eredivisie: They landed a 4th position in the league table after playing out 20 victories, 7 draws and 7 defeats. In total they scored 68 and conceded {35 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 11 - drew 2 and lost 4 with 32/15 goals scored/conceded.

The fans enjoyed AZ's previous fixture versus FC Santa Coloma, a Europa Conference League win (2-0) played at home. Sugawara was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 9.03. The defender Sugawara hit five key passes and won 8 of 13 duels.

Prior to that match, a home win 5-1 against Go Ahead Eagles in the Eredivisie.

After this away game AZ return home for a Europa Conference League game against Brann. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Head 2 Head

RKC Waalwijk-AZ H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: RKC Waalwijk three wins, AZ seven wins, zero draws. eight of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

WaalwijkM. Kramer
M. Kramer
1 goals
AZJ. Clasie
J. Clasie
1 goals
AZD. de Wit
D. de Wit
1 goals

RKC Waalwijk missing players

AZ missing players

Total First Half Second Half
RKC Waalwijk AZ
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 0 1
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
1 0 0 Scored S 0 0 5
3 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 1
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
2 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 5
7 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 4
1 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 13
5 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 8
20% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 62%
 
19 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 9
9 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 4
RKC Waalwijk Last season AZ
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   17 34
11 9   Won W   11 20
8 3   Drew D   2 7
15 5   Lost L   4 7
50 34   Scored S   32 68
64 26   Conceded C   15 35
88% 94%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   94% 97%
76% 76%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   76% 82%
68% 71%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   65% 62%
56% 65%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   24% 26%
29% 29%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   18% 18%
59% 65%   BTTS BTTS   53% 62%
18% 18%   Clean Sheets C S   47% 35%
35% 24%   Failed to Score F T   6% 6%
 
4 4.8   Corners for (avg) C F   4.8 5.4
6.2 4.8   Corners against (avg) C A   4.1 3.7
1.7 1.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.5 1.5
2 1   Red cards R C   0 1
 
10.6 11.4   Shots (avg) S (   14 15.2
4.1 4.7   Shots on Target (avg) S O   5.1 5.9
36% 42%   Goal Efficiency G E   37% 34%
 
16.8 14.5   Shots against (avg) S A   12.9 11.6
6.1 5.5   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   2.8 2.9

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 AZ 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
2 FC Twente 1 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 3 3
3 Ajax 1 1 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
4 SC Heerenveen 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
5 PSV 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
6 Excelsior 1 1 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 3
7 Sparta Rotterdam 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
8 Vitesse 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
9 Fortuna Sittard 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
10 Feyenoord 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
11 NEC 1 0 0 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
12 FC Volendam 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
13 PEC Zwolle 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
14 RKC Waalwijk 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
15 FC Utrecht 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
16 Heracles 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 -3 0
17 Almere City 1 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0
18 Go Ahead Eagles 1 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 5 -4 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Feyenoord 34 25 7 2 81 30 17 12 4 1 37 10 17 13 3 1 44 20 51 82
2 PSV 34 23 6 5 89 40 17 14 2 1 54 14 17 9 4 4 35 26 49 75
3 Ajax 34 20 9 5 86 38 17 10 5 2 47 14 17 10 4 3 39 24 48 69
4 AZ 34 20 7 7 68 35 17 9 5 3 36 20 17 11 2 4 32 15 33 67
5 FC Twente 34 18 10 6 66 27 17 13 4 0 46 11 17 5 6 6 20 16 39 64
6 Sparta Rotterdam 34 17 8 9 60 37 17 10 2 5 32 18 17 7 6 4 28 19 23 59
7 FC Utrecht 34 15 9 10 55 50 17 8 5 4 20 15 17 7 4 6 35 35 5 54
8 SC Heerenveen 34 12 10 12 44 50 17 6 3 8 21 26 17 6 7 4 23 24 -6 46
9 RKC Waalwijk 34 11 8 15 50 64 17 9 3 5 34 26 17 2 5 10 16 38 -14 41
10 Vitesse 34 10 10 14 45 50 17 5 6 6 24 25 17 5 4 8 21 25 -5 40
11 Go Ahead Eagles 34 10 10 14 46 56 17 7 6 4 28 23 17 3 4 10 18 33 -10 40
12 NEC 34 8 15 11 42 45 17 3 9 5 28 28 17 5 6 6 14 17 -3 39
13 Fortuna Sittard 34 10 6 18 39 62 17 5 4 8 21 28 17 5 2 10 18 34 -23 36
14 FC Volendam 34 10 6 18 42 71 17 9 1 7 29 32 17 1 5 11 13 39 -29 36
15 Excelsior 34 9 5 20 32 71 17 8 2 7 22 26 17 1 3 13 10 45 -39 32
16 FC Emmen 34 6 10 18 33 65 17 3 9 5 16 23 17 3 1 13 17 42 -32 28
17 SC Cambuur 34 5 4 25 26 69 17 3 0 14 14 33 17 2 4 11 12 36 -43 19
18 FC Groningen 34 4 6 24 31 75 17 3 3 11 20 34 17 1 3 13 11 41 -44 18

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 AZ 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
2 FC Twente 1 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 3 3
3 Ajax 1 1 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
4 SC Heerenveen 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
5 PSV 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
6 Excelsior 1 1 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 3
7 Sparta Rotterdam 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
8 Vitesse 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
9 Fortuna Sittard 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
10 Feyenoord 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
11 NEC 1 0 0 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
12 FC Volendam 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
13 PEC Zwolle 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
14 RKC Waalwijk 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
15 FC Utrecht 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
16 Heracles 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 -3 0
17 Almere City 1 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0
18 Go Ahead Eagles 1 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 5 -4 0

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The Eredivisie is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. 18 teams play two fixtures against each other to form the final league table and decide which team wins the Dutch national championship. The phrase Eredivisie translates to “Honour Division”. The “big three” in Dutch football are Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord.