Eredivisie: Ajax welcome Excelsior in what promises to be an appealing football fixture. Tipsway gives you a full preview!
- Ajax have the the best goal difference (+19) in Eredivisie
- Excelsior have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
Ajax's stadium, Johan Cruijff Arena, has a grass surface. Excelsior have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Excelsior when playing on grass; 4 wins, 3 draws and 8 losses from 15 matches. They have scored {15 goals} in these games and conceded 29.
These are hustling days for the hosts, as they played only four days ago in the Champions League. That game was an away game at Napoli, so at least Ajax are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Ajax form and stats
When playing at home in the Eredivisie, Ajax have managed 3 wins, 1 draw and suffered 0 defeats from 4 games.
The club members hope that Ajax will fight back in this fixture, putting things right after the 2-4 away loss in the Champions League fixture against Napoli. Attacking player Bergwijn edged out all others in that game and managed a match rating of 7.53 out of 10. Bergwijn scored one goal, hit three key passes and had 37 successful passes (of 44 total).
Before that match, a Eredivisie win away at FC Volendam.Everyone expects Ajax to win this match. We have checked our database for matches where they have been as big a favourite and found 19 games: 17 home wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. Ajax have won with at least two goals margin 15 times in similar situations.
Ajax always seem capable of creating a buzz here at Johan Cruijff Arena with 16 goals in 4 league games. Ajax are not conceding a lot of goals here at Johan Cruijff Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 4 matches.
Excelsior form and stats
The visitors are W1-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Eredivisie.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to NEC (placed 10th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 1-1. As mentioned above, Excelsior drew the match against NEC. Manager Dijkhuizen brought on Lamprou to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Yaakoubi was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.33. The defender Yaakoubi won 6 of 11 duels.
A loss against FC Utrecht was the result prior to that, in a home game.A new game in only three days for Excelsior, the KNVB Beker home match versus MVV Maastricht. Busy days.
Excelsior have conceded 11 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The 4 most recent fixtures involving these two teams have all finished as Ajax victories. Another one?Top Goalscorers
  S. Bergwijn 6 goals |  M. Kudus 4 goals |  B. Brobbey 4 goals |
Ajax missing players
Excelsior missing players
| Ajax | Excelsior | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 27 | 16 | 5 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| 8 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 11 | 20 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 78% |
| 67% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 40% | 56% |
| 56% | 75% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 40% | 44% |
| 44% | 50% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 22% |
| 56% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 56% |
| 44% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 11% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 40% | 33% |
| 8 | 10 | 17 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.6 | 4 |
| 2.3 | 1.8 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1 | 5.6 | 7 |
| 1.4 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18.9 | 22 | 19 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 10 | 11.1 |
| 6.8 | 8.2 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
| 44% | 48% | 71% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 28% | 30% |
| 7.8 | 4.2 | 5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 18.6 | 18.9 |
| 3.2 | 1.8 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 7.8 | 7.4 |
- Ajax have not yet lost a game at home.
- Ajax have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Ajax have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Ajax have scored in all their matches so far.
- Ajax have scored more than double the goals of Excelsior.
- Ajax have the the best goal difference (+14) at home in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the the best goal difference (+19) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Ajax have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Ajax haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- All of Ajax's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Excelsior have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Excelsior haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 12 | 23 |
| 2 | Ajax | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 19 | 22 |
| 3 | PSV | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 16 | 21 |
| 4 | Feyenoord | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 20 |
| 5 | FC Twente | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 16 |
| 6 | Sparta Rotterdam | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 7 | RKC Waalwijk | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 13 |
| 8 | SC Heerenveen | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 13 |
| 9 | FC Utrecht | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | -1 | 12 |
| 10 | NEC | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 11 | Fortuna Sittard | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 10 |
| 12 | Excelsior | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -9 | 10 |
| 13 | Go Ahead Eagles | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -5 | 8 |
| 14 | SC Cambuur | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | -6 | 8 |
| 15 | FC Groningen | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -9 | 8 |
| 16 | Vitesse | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -13 | 5 |
| 17 | FC Emmen | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 15 | -14 | 5 |
| 18 | FC Volendam | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 16 | -17 | 5 |
