Football preview: Home fans have high hopes when AZ take on FC Emmen

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sun 14.May
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: AFAS Stadion (17023 seats)

AZ are listed as favourites to win this home fixture against FC Emmen, if the league standings are thought to provide some clues. Or could we be looking at a possible?

Insights:
  • AZ haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • FC Emmen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

Not much time to rest for the host team, as they had a Europa Conference League match only three days earlier. That game was an away game at West Ham United, so at least AZ are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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AZ form and stats

AZ have collected 29 points from their Eredivisie home games so far after 8-5-2.

The AZ goalkeeper Mathew Ryan is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 315 minutes without conceding a goal in the Eredivisie.

The supporters are hoping that AZ will fight back in this match, putting things right after the 1-2 away defeat in the Europa Conference League fixture against West Ham United. Midfielder Reijnders was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.04 (out of ten) in that game. Reijnders scored one goal, hit two key passes and had 66 successful passes (of 68 total).

Before that, AZ played out a Eredivisie draw 0-0 when visiting Ajax.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for AZ home games with this odds we find 12 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 10 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 5 matches were won by at least two goals.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for AZ, as the Europa Conference League home game vs West Ham United is only four days away.

AZ have conceded 17 in these home matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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FC Emmen form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for FC Emmen so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 3-1-11 (win-draw-lose).

Emmen might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. FC Twente proved too strong as FC Emmen slumped to a 0-3 defeat in front of their own fans at De Oude Meerdijk. Midfield player Diemers was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.02/10. Diemers hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.

Prior to that result FC Emmen won their away game at SC Heerenveen. The scoreline was 3-2.

The visitors have scored 14 goals from 15 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. FC Emmen have conceded 34 goals in these games. FC Emmen has visited these top teams five times, and 4 of 5 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

AZ have won every one of the 7 latest battles versus this team. Another win today?

FC Emmen - AZ 0-3 was the end result in these squads' last H2H game, played this season.

Top Goalscorers

AZV. Pavlidis
V. Pavlidis
12 goals
FC EmmenO. ter Haar Romeny
O. ter Haar Romeny
10 goals
AZJ. Odgaard
J. Odgaard
9 goals

AZ missing players

FC Emmen missing players

Total First Half Second Half
AZ FC Emmen
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
31 15 5 Played P 5 15 31
18 8 4 Won W 0 3 6
7 5 1 Drew D 0 1 10
6 2 0 Lost L 5 11 15
59 30 11 Scored S 3 14 29
32 17 3 Conceded C 16 34 54
97% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 87%
81% 87% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 93% 77%
58% 53% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 80% 67% 52%
26% 27% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 80% 47% 35%
16% 13% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 13% 13%
61% 67% 60% BTTS BTTS 60% 67% 52%
35% 27% 40% Clean Sheets C S 0% 7% 23%
6% 7% 0% Failed to Score F T 40% 27% 39%
 
5.3 5.8 6.4 Corners for (avg) C F 3.6 4.2 4.3
3.7 3.3 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 8.4 7.1 5.8
1.6 1.5 1.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.4 1.6 1.3
1 1 1 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
14.9 15.9 14.6 Shots (avg) S ( 7 10.7 11.4
5.8 6.6 6.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.7 3.8
33% 30% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 25% 25%
 
11.9 10.7 10.6 Shots against (avg) S A 18.8 16.7 14.8
3 3.1 3.4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 5.2 4.7
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • AZ have scored more than double the goals of FC Emmen.
  • AZ haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • FC Emmen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • FC Emmen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • FC Emmen haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Feyenoord 31 23 7 1 75 28 15 11 4 0 34 9 16 12 3 1 41 19 47 76
2 PSV 31 21 5 5 82 35 15 13 1 1 49 10 16 8 4 4 33 25 47 68
3 Ajax 31 18 9 4 79 32 16 9 5 2 44 13 15 9 4 2 35 19 47 63
4 AZ 31 18 7 6 59 32 15 8 5 2 30 17 16 10 2 4 29 15 27 61
5 FC Twente 31 15 10 6 54 26 15 11 4 0 39 10 16 4 6 6 15 16 28 55
6 Sparta Rotterdam 31 15 8 8 50 34 16 9 2 5 28 17 15 6 6 3 22 17 16 53
7 FC Utrecht 31 13 9 9 49 45 15 6 5 4 15 13 16 7 4 5 34 32 4 48
8 RKC Waalwijk 31 11 8 12 50 53 16 9 3 4 34 21 15 2 5 8 16 32 -3 41
9 SC Heerenveen 31 11 8 12 39 47 15 5 2 8 19 26 16 6 6 4 20 21 -8 41
10 NEC 31 8 14 9 41 37 16 3 9 4 28 25 15 5 5 5 13 12 4 38
11 Go Ahead Eagles 31 9 10 12 43 51 16 6 6 4 25 23 15 3 4 8 18 28 -8 37
12 Fortuna Sittard 31 10 5 16 37 56 16 5 3 8 20 27 15 5 2 8 17 29 -19 35
13 Vitesse 31 7 10 14 36 50 15 3 6 6 16 25 16 4 4 8 20 25 -14 31
14 FC Volendam 31 8 6 17 37 65 15 7 1 7 24 29 16 1 5 10 13 36 -28 30
15 FC Emmen 31 6 10 15 29 54 16 3 9 4 15 20 15 3 1 11 14 34 -25 28
16 Excelsior 31 8 4 19 27 68 16 7 2 7 19 26 15 1 2 12 8 42 -41 28
17 FC Groningen 31 4 6 21 29 61 15 3 3 9 18 26 16 1 3 12 11 35 -32 18
18 SC Cambuur 31 4 4 23 21 63 16 2 0 14 10 33 15 2 4 9 11 30 -42 16

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 Feyenoord 31 23 7 1 75 28 15 11 4 0 34 9 16 12 3 1 41 19 47 76
2 PSV 31 21 5 5 82 35 15 13 1 1 49 10 16 8 4 4 33 25 47 68
3 Ajax 31 18 9 4 79 32 16 9 5 2 44 13 15 9 4 2 35 19 47 63
4 AZ 31 18 7 6 59 32 15 8 5 2 30 17 16 10 2 4 29 15 27 61
5 FC Twente 31 15 10 6 54 26 15 11 4 0 39 10 16 4 6 6 15 16 28 55
6 Sparta Rotterdam 31 15 8 8 50 34 16 9 2 5 28 17 15 6 6 3 22 17 16 53
7 FC Utrecht 31 13 9 9 49 45 15 6 5 4 15 13 16 7 4 5 34 32 4 48
8 RKC Waalwijk 31 11 8 12 50 53 16 9 3 4 34 21 15 2 5 8 16 32 -3 41
9 SC Heerenveen 31 11 8 12 39 47 15 5 2 8 19 26 16 6 6 4 20 21 -8 41
10 NEC 31 8 14 9 41 37 16 3 9 4 28 25 15 5 5 5 13 12 4 38
11 Go Ahead Eagles 31 9 10 12 43 51 16 6 6 4 25 23 15 3 4 8 18 28 -8 37
12 Fortuna Sittard 31 10 5 16 37 56 16 5 3 8 20 27 15 5 2 8 17 29 -19 35
13 Vitesse 31 7 10 14 36 50 15 3 6 6 16 25 16 4 4 8 20 25 -14 31
14 FC Volendam 31 8 6 17 37 65 15 7 1 7 24 29 16 1 5 10 13 36 -28 30
15 FC Emmen 31 6 10 15 29 54 16 3 9 4 15 20 15 3 1 11 14 34 -25 28
16 Excelsior 31 8 4 19 27 68 16 7 2 7 19 26 15 1 2 12 8 42 -41 28
17 FC Groningen 31 4 6 21 29 61 15 3 3 9 18 26 16 1 3 12 11 35 -32 18
18 SC Cambuur 31 4 4 23 21 63 16 2 0 14 10 33 15 2 4 9 11 30 -42 16

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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.