AZ Alkmaar battle against RKC Waalwijk for glory and sporting success.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Alkmaar and RKC Waalwijk.
This stadium uses grass, unlike RKC Waalwijk's home stadium. The visitors last 22 games on grass have ended in 5 wins, 1 draw and 16 losses.
AZ Alkmaar form and stats
AZ Alkmaar are yet to win a home game, having collected 2 points from their first two Eredivisie games here at AFAS Stadion. Alkmaar are splitting points both home and away, currently holding an interesting streak of five drawn games in a row. Alkmaar have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
Alkmaar's previous game was a Europa League match also played at home, ending 4-1 versus Rijeka. The home side are looking to build on that result. 2-2 away at ADO Den Haag before that.
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 five matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won two, drew one and lost two.
There will be little rest for Alkmaar after this match as they are travelling to Real Sociedad for a Europa League game in only four days.
At AFAS Stadion, AZ Alkmaar has the goal stats of 3-3 (for/against) from 2 league fixtures.
RKC Waalwijk form and stats
RKC Waalwijk are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Eredivisie, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).
Waalwijk played 2-2 against SC Cambuur (after extra-time, 3-5 on penalties) in their previous match. A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting Feyenoord in the Eredivisie.
The match against SC Cambuur (after extra-time, 3-5 on penalties) looked like a defeat for Waalwijk, but they did not accept the outcome and clawed their way back to 2-2. Jurien Gaari equalized in the 90th minute.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Waalwijk played away with similar odds. This revealed one game. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Waalwijk as they have only managed to score 2 times from 3 away games in the league. For Waalwijk, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): AZ Alkmaar won eight games, one match ended with a draw and RKC Waalwijk has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: eight / twoAZ Alkmaar missing players
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| AZ Alkmaar | RKC Waalwijk | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 12 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 80% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 80% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 40% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 33% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.8 | 1.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.3 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 83 | 32 | 13 | Total Shots | T S | 12 | 22 | 47 |
| 31 | 10 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 2 | 6 | 17 |
| 39% | 30% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 33% | 29% |
- AZ Alkmaar has the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Eredivisie
- AZ Alkmaar has the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Eredivisie
- AZ Alkmaar have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- AZ Alkmaar have not yet lost a game.
- AZ Alkmaar have scored in all their matches so far.
- AZ Alkmaar have scored more than double the goals of RKC Waalwijk.
- AZ Alkmaar have yet to win a game.
- AZ Alkmaar haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- All of AZ Alkmaar's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- RKC Waalwijk 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 | Ajax | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 21 | 15 |
| 2 | Vitesse | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| 3 | PSV | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 13 |
| 4 | SC Heerenveen | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | Feyenoord | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 12 |
| 6 | FC Twente | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| 7 | FC Groningen | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 8 | FC Utrecht | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 9 | PEC Zwolle | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 6 |
| 10 | AZ Alkmaar | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 5 |
| 11 | Willem II | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -4 | 5 |
| 12 | RKC Waalwijk | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -5 | 5 |
| 13 | Heracles | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | -6 | 5 |
| 14 | VVV-Venlo | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | -13 | 5 |
| 15 | ADO Den Haag | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -6 | 4 |
| 16 | FC Emmen | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -7 | 3 |
| 17 | Sparta Rotterdam | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -7 | 3 |
| 18 | Fortuna Sittard | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -8 | 2 |