AZ travel to Excelsior with space in suitcase for three points

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Date: Wed 15.May
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Van Donge & De Roo Stadion (4500 seats)

Struggling Excelsior will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying AZ in the upcoming league round. It’s 16th vs 4th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

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.

This stadium uses artificial turf, unlike AZ's home stadium. The visitors last twelve games on artificial turf have ended in 8 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss.

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Excelsior form and stats

When playing at home, Excelsior, who have the most conceded goals (77) in Eredivisie, have managed 5 wins, 4 draws and suffered 7 defeats from 16 games.

Excelsior are returning here after visiting Heracles in a Eredivisie game and winning with a 5-4 scoreline. A defeat was the result before that one, 1-3 away at ADO Den Haag.

The Excelsior fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium, the tally being 23 in 16 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Excelsior with 34 goals conceded in these matches.

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AZ form and stats

As the visiting team AZ have produced an overall stat of 6-4-6 so far.

AZ are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Eredivisie against PSV. That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Heracles.

AZ are not goal shy away from home, finding the net 27 times in 16 away games so far. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as AZ have conceded 24 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result AZ - Excelsior 2-1 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Excelsior 2 wins, 4 draws and AZ 4 victories. As for goals, 7 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 3 games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

G. Til
12 goals / 4 assists
O. Idrissi
8 goals / 7 assists
A. Messaoud
7 goals / 4 assists

Excelsior missing players

AZ missing players

Excelsior AZ
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs low Away Total
33 16 5 Played 5 16 33
8 5 2 Won 3 6 17
6 4 1 Drew 2 4 7
19 7 2 Lost 0 6 9
42 23 8 Scored 11 27 62
77 34 13 Conceded 2 24 39
97% 100% 100% Over 0.5 80% 94% 94%
85% 94% 100% Over 1.5 80% 88% 79%
61% 56% 60% Over 2.5 60% 75% 67%
39% 31% 40% Over 3.5 20% 44% 39%
33% 31% 40% Over 4.5 20% 19% 24%
58% 62% 60% BTTS 40% 62% 52%
15% 19% 20% Clean Sheets 60% 31% 42%
30% 19% 20% Failed To Score 20% 12% 12%
 
4.1 3.7 3.8 Corners For (avg) 5 5.3 6.4
7.8 8 9.8 Corners Against (avg) 4.2 5.6 4.7
1.4 0.9 1.2 Yellow Cards (avg) 1.2 1.9 1.5
4 3 1 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • AZ have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • AZ have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Excelsior have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • Excelsior haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

Excelsior
All Eredivisie Club Friendlies KNVB Beker
All Home Away
09-03-19 ER VVV-Venlo 1 - 0 Excelsior
17-03-19 ER Excelsior 0 - 2 PEC Zwolle
30-03-19 ER SC Heerenveen 1 - 0 Excelsior
03-04-19 ER Excelsior 1 - 2 NAC Breda
06-04-19 ER FC Groningen 1 - 0 Excelsior
13-04-19 ER Ajax 6 - 2 Excelsior
21-04-19 ER Excelsior 1 - 1 Willem II
25-04-19 ER ADO Den Haag 3 - 1 Excelsior
12-05-19 ER Heracles 4 - 5 Excelsior
15-05-19 ER Excelsior 17:30 AZ
AZ
All Eredivisie Europa League Club Friendlies KNVB Beker
All Home Away
17-03-19 ER AZ 1 - 0 Ajax
21-03-19 CF AZ 0 - 1 Malmö FF
30-03-19 ER AZ 1 - 0 FC Groningen
02-04-19 ER Vitesse 2 - 2 AZ
06-04-19 ER Graafschap 1 - 1 AZ
13-04-19 ER AZ 2 - 3 ADO Den Haag
20-04-19 ER Feyenoord 2 - 1 AZ
23-04-19 ER AZ 2 - 1 Heracles
12-05-19 ER AZ 1 - 0 PSV
15-05-19 ER Excelsior 17:30 AZ

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Ajax 33 27 2 4 115 31 17 15 2 0 70 13 16 12 0 4 45 18 84 83
2 PSV 33 25 5 3 95 25 16 15 1 0 55 6 17 10 4 3 40 19 70 80
3 Feyenoord 33 19 5 9 71 40 17 14 0 3 43 16 16 5 5 6 28 24 31 62
4 AZ 33 17 7 9 62 39 17 11 3 3 35 15 16 6 4 6 27 24 23 58
5 Vitesse 33 13 11 9 67 50 17 10 6 1 45 25 16 3 5 8 22 25 17 50
6 FC Utrecht 33 14 8 11 57 50 16 8 5 3 27 15 17 6 3 8 30 35 7 50
7 Heracles 33 15 3 15 60 65 17 11 0 6 42 32 16 4 3 9 18 33 -5 48
8 FC Groningen 33 13 6 14 39 40 17 10 1 6 26 16 16 3 5 8 13 24 -1 45
9 Willem II 33 13 5 15 56 66 17 6 2 9 26 33 16 7 3 6 30 33 -10 44
10 ADO Den Haag 33 11 9 13 52 61 16 6 4 6 27 30 17 5 5 7 25 31 -9 42
11 SC Heerenveen 33 10 11 12 63 70 17 4 7 6 27 35 16 6 4 6 36 35 -7 41
12 VVV-Venlo 33 11 8 14 46 60 16 7 3 6 24 22 17 4 5 8 22 38 -14 41
13 PEC Zwolle 33 11 5 17 44 57 17 6 3 8 31 31 16 5 2 9 13 26 -13 38
14 FC Emmen 33 9 8 16 40 72 16 4 5 7 22 31 17 5 3 9 18 41 -32 35
15 Fortuna Sittard 33 9 7 17 49 76 16 7 5 4 29 22 17 2 2 13 20 54 -27 34
16 Excelsior 33 8 6 19 42 77 16 5 4 7 23 34 17 3 2 12 19 43 -35 30
17 Graafschap 33 8 5 20 37 71 16 6 3 7 24 24 17 2 2 13 13 47 -34 29
18 NAC Breda 33 5 7 21 29 74 16 4 5 7 18 30 17 1 2 14 11 44 -45 22

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