Eredivisie: AZ anticipated to subdue SC Heerenveen

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sun 22.May
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: AFAS Stadion (17023 seats)

The standings shows that 20 points split the pair of competitors in this Eredivisie game. AZ hold both the points- and home stadium advantage.

Insights:
  • AZ have the most matches over the total-line (17) in Eredivisie
  • AZ have scored at least twice as many goals at home as SC Heerenveen have scored away.

AZ is in the 5th league table position and will remain there regardless of what happens for the rest of the season. SC Heerenveen are staying put at 8th place whatever happens for the rest of the season.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

L L D D D

AZ form and stats

AZ are steadily winning Eredivisie games and points here at AFAS Stadion. 11 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats is the summary from 17 games.

AZ faced defeat in their previous match, away at SC Heerenveen (2-3). Heartbreak for AZ in their last match as SC Heerenveen's Halilovic scored the winning goal deep into overtime. Midfield player Midtsjø got a match rating of 7.13 in that game, the max score being 10. Midtsjø served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 5 of 5 times and had 55 successful passes (of 62 total).

Preceding that match was a defeat to RKC Waalwijk (1-3).

Goals decide football matches and AZ are scoring many of them at home; 36 on target from 17 league matches. 20 goals have been conceded.

W W L W D

SC Heerenveen form and stats

The visitors are W5-D5-L7 on the road this term. That's in the Eredivisie.

SC Heerenveen had fun at their own home (AFAS Stadion) last time out, beating AZ 3-2. Sarr, Halilović and van Hooijdonk scored. Late drama in the previous game, when Halilović scored the winning goal four minutes into stoppage time to defeat AZ. Haye got a match rating of 7.84 in that game, top player of the team. Haye hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 42 successful passes (of 48 total).

That result followed a home victory 3-1 versus Go Ahead Eagles.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting SC Heerenveen as they have only managed to score 14 times from 17 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Heerenveen have seen the ball go into their own net 24 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The teams have met each other before in this season, with the match result SC Heerenveen - AZ 3-2 written in the official records. AZ-SC Heerenveen H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: AZ seven wins, SC Heerenveen three wins, zero draws. nine of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

AZV. Pavlidis
V. Pavlidis
17 goals
AZJ. Karlsson
J. Karlsson
15 goals
AZD. de Wit
D. de Wit
8 goals

AZ missing players

SC Heerenveen missing players

Total First Half Second Half
AZ SC Heerenveen
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
35 17 5 Played P 5 17 35
18 11 2 Won W 1 5 12
7 3 2 Drew D 0 5 8
10 3 1 Lost L 4 7 15
66 36 8 Scored S 4 14 40
47 20 5 Conceded C 14 24 52
94% 94% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 91%
83% 82% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 71% 74%
74% 76% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 80% 41% 51%
49% 47% 40% Over 3.5 O 3.5 60% 18% 29%
20% 24% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 6% 14%
74% 71% 60% BTTS BTTS 60% 53% 57%
11% 18% 40% Clean Sheets C S 0% 29% 23%
20% 18% 20% Failed to Score F T 40% 29% 29%
 
5.4 5.4 9.4 Corners for (avg) C F 5.6 4.9 4.9
3.8 3.1 1.8 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 6.2 5.8
1.5 1.4 0.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.6 0.9 1.3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
13.4 13.8 16 Shots (avg) S ( 8.6 12.2 12
4.8 5.1 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 3.5 3.9
40% 42% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 24% 29%
 
10.3 8.2 7.6 Shots against (avg) S A 15.8 13.9 13.5
3.9 3.2 2.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.4 4.5 4.6
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • AZ have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • AZ have scored at least twice as many goals at home as SC Heerenveen have scored away.
  • AZ have the most matches over the total-line (17) in Eredivisie

  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 34 26 5 3 98 19 17 14 1 2 62 8 17 12 4 1 36 11 79 83
2 PSV 34 26 3 5 86 42 17 14 0 3 49 22 17 12 3 2 37 20 44 81
3 Feyenoord 34 22 5 7 76 34 17 11 3 3 39 17 17 11 2 4 37 17 42 71
4 FC Twente 34 20 8 6 55 37 17 10 5 2 28 13 17 10 3 4 27 24 18 68
5 AZ 34 18 7 9 64 44 17 11 3 3 36 20 17 7 4 6 28 24 20 61
6 Vitesse 34 15 6 13 42 51 17 6 3 8 20 29 17 9 3 5 22 22 -9 51
7 FC Utrecht 34 12 11 11 51 46 17 8 6 3 32 20 17 4 5 8 19 26 5 47
8 SC Heerenveen 34 11 8 15 37 50 17 6 3 8 23 26 17 5 5 7 14 24 -13 41
9 SC Cambuur 34 11 6 17 53 70 17 5 3 9 29 35 17 6 3 8 24 35 -17 39
10 RKC Waalwijk 34 9 11 14 40 51 17 6 3 8 17 25 17 3 8 6 23 26 -11 38
11 NEC 34 10 8 16 38 52 17 3 5 9 13 22 17 7 3 7 25 30 -14 38
12 FC Groningen 34 9 9 16 41 55 17 4 6 7 18 21 17 5 3 9 23 34 -14 36
13 Go Ahead Eagles 34 10 6 18 37 51 17 7 1 9 25 24 17 3 5 9 12 27 -14 36
14 Sparta Rotterdam 34 8 11 15 30 48 17 4 7 6 16 21 17 4 4 9 14 27 -18 35
15 Fortuna Sittard 34 10 5 19 36 67 17 6 2 9 20 31 17 4 3 10 16 36 -31 35
16 Heracles 34 9 7 18 33 49 17 7 5 5 22 21 17 2 2 13 11 28 -16 34
17 Willem II 34 9 6 19 32 57 17 7 3 7 18 20 17 2 3 12 14 37 -25 33
18 PEC Zwolle 34 7 6 21 26 52 17 3 5 9 13 20 17 4 1 12 13 32 -26 27

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 Ajax 34 26 5 3 98 19 17 14 1 2 62 8 17 12 4 1 36 11 79 83
2 PSV 34 26 3 5 86 42 17 14 0 3 49 22 17 12 3 2 37 20 44 81
3 Feyenoord 34 22 5 7 76 34 17 11 3 3 39 17 17 11 2 4 37 17 42 71
4 FC Twente 34 20 8 6 55 37 17 10 5 2 28 13 17 10 3 4 27 24 18 68
5 AZ 34 18 7 9 64 44 17 11 3 3 36 20 17 7 4 6 28 24 20 61
6 Vitesse 34 15 6 13 42 51 17 6 3 8 20 29 17 9 3 5 22 22 -9 51
7 FC Utrecht 34 12 11 11 51 46 17 8 6 3 32 20 17 4 5 8 19 26 5 47
8 SC Heerenveen 34 11 8 15 37 50 17 6 3 8 23 26 17 5 5 7 14 24 -13 41
9 SC Cambuur 34 11 6 17 53 70 17 5 3 9 29 35 17 6 3 8 24 35 -17 39
10 RKC Waalwijk 34 9 11 14 40 51 17 6 3 8 17 25 17 3 8 6 23 26 -11 38
11 NEC 34 10 8 16 38 52 17 3 5 9 13 22 17 7 3 7 25 30 -14 38
12 FC Groningen 34 9 9 16 41 55 17 4 6 7 18 21 17 5 3 9 23 34 -14 36
13 Go Ahead Eagles 34 10 6 18 37 51 17 7 1 9 25 24 17 3 5 9 12 27 -14 36
14 Sparta Rotterdam 34 8 11 15 30 48 17 4 7 6 16 21 17 4 4 9 14 27 -18 35
15 Fortuna Sittard 34 10 5 19 36 67 17 6 2 9 20 31 17 4 3 10 16 36 -31 35
16 Heracles 34 9 7 18 33 49 17 7 5 5 22 21 17 2 2 13 11 28 -16 34
17 Willem II 34 9 6 19 32 57 17 7 3 7 18 20 17 2 3 12 14 37 -25 33
18 PEC Zwolle 34 7 6 21 26 52 17 3 5 9 13 20 17 4 1 12 13 32 -26 27

More from Netherlands - Eredivisie

Read more about Eredivisie

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.