Ajax have outperformed Willem II so far, but every game begins at 0-0. Here's all the information you require before kickoff:
- Ajax have the most scored goals (43) in Eredivisie
- Willem II is in the worst form (0-2-4)
There have been little to rest for the host team, as they played a Eredivisie game only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Sparta Rotterdam.
Ajax form and stats
Ajax are steadily winning Eredivisie games and points here at Johan Cruijff Arena. 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat is the summary from 7 games.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Remko Pasveer not having conceded a league goal in 553 minutes.
Ajax enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Sparta Rotterdam's place. The match ended 1-0 with Dušan Tadić scoring. Lisandro Martínez, defender, was given a rating of 7.63/10 in that game, top of the team. Martínez hit one key pass and won 6 of 10 duels.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Besiktas and winning 2-1.Ajax are huge favourites in this match and it would be a big surprise if they fail to leave Johan Cruijff Arena with a victory. The home side has been in this situation before, with huge expectations of a win. In their match history 16 earlier games are comparable to this one, and Ajax has won 15 times, drawn one and lost zero. Sports bettors who like handicap betting will like to know that Ajax has won by at least two goals 14 times when in this position.
It's goals goals goals for Ajax who have scored 27 goals from 7 league home games. As for guarding their own goal, Ajax have only let in 1 goal at home.
Willem II form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Eredivisie travels is 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. With the Willem losing streak of four defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking.
The manager F. Grim was unhappy after their last game, a Eredivisie match played at their home ground Koning Willem II Stadion. Willem suffered a 0-1 loss to Go Ahead Eagles (placed 8th). Midfield player Mats Köhlert was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.8/10. Köhlert dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 24 successful passes (of 25 total).
A 1-2 defeat away at SC Heerenveen before that.Willem II are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found two matches where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were one win, zero draws and one defeat. Of the defeats, one game were lost by at least two goals margin.
The visiting Willem have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 10 goals from 7 games. Willem have conceded 12 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Statistics for the prior ten meetings involving these two squads are: eight wins for Ajax, one draw and one win for Willem II. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.Top Goalscorers
  S. Haller 9 goals |  D. Tadić 6 goals |  S. Berghuis 5 goals |
Ajax missing players
Willem II missing players
| Ajax | Willem II | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 43 | 27 | 5 | Scored | S | 4 | 10 | 16 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 5 | 12 | 23 |
| 86% | 86% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 93% |
| 71% | 71% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 79% |
| 50% | 71% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 71% | 64% |
| 43% | 57% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 29% | 21% |
| 43% | 57% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 29% | 14% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 71% | 57% |
| 86% | 86% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 29% | 21% |
| 21% | 29% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 29% |
| 7.5 | 7.3 | 8.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.1 | 4.9 |
| 2.5 | 1.6 | 1.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.1 | 4.7 |
| 0.9 | 0.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 20.6 | 24.3 | 30 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 10.9 | 10.5 |
| 7.5 | 8.6 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.6 | 3.4 |
| 41% | 45% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 40% | 33% |
| 7.9 | 7 | 4.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.5 | 14 | 13.8 |
| 2.4 | 2.1 | 0.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.9 | 5.4 |
- 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 more than double the goals of Willem II.
- Ajax have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the fewest conceded goals (2) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most clean sheets (12) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most clean sheets (6) at home in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most scored goals (27) at home in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most scored goals (43) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most scored goals in the first half (22) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most scored goals in the second half (21) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the the best goal difference (+26) at home in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the the best goal difference (+41) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Willem II have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Willem II is in the worst form (0-2-4)
| 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 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 43 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 41 | 33 |
| 2 | PSV | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 34 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 31 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 31 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 18 | 29 |
| 4 | FC Utrecht | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 26 |
| 5 | SC Cambuur | 14 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 26 | 29 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 17 | -3 | 24 |
| 6 | Vitesse | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -7 | 23 |
| 7 | FC Twente | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 22 |
| 8 | Go Ahead Eagles | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14 | -5 | 20 |
| 9 | NEC | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 14 | -3 | 19 |
| 10 | SC Heerenveen | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -4 | 18 |
| 11 | Willem II | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -7 | 18 |
| 12 | AZ | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 17 |
| 13 | FC Groningen | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 16 | -4 | 17 |
| 14 | Heracles | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | -4 | 14 |
| 15 | RKC Waalwijk | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -8 | 12 |
| 16 | Sparta Rotterdam | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -10 | 10 |
| 17 | Fortuna Sittard | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 32 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -17 | 9 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 14 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 19 | -19 | 5 |