Ajax looking for adventure and three points trip to FC Volendam

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sat 08.October
Match begins: 14:30 (UTC)
Venue: Kras Stadion (7384 seats)

The visiting Ajax team are thought to be odds-on at FC Volendam, as the visitors have a 14 point advantage from their eight league fixtures this season.

Insights:
  • FC Volendam have the most conceded goals (23) in Eredivisie
  • Ajax have the the best goal difference (+17) in Eredivisie

FC Volendam's stadium, Kras Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. Ajax have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Ajax when playing on artifical turf; 8 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses from nine matches. They have scored 17 goals in these games and conceded 2.

The visiting Ajax played their last game only four days ago, a Champions League match.

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FC Volendam form and stats

Three Eredivisie home games done for FC Volendam, who are not happy collecting 3 points from these matches.

In their previous game, the manager Jonk led his Volendam to a defeat away at Fortuna Sittard. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Kras Stadion.

1-1 away at Vitesse before that.

FC Volendam has scored 4 league goals at home this season, in 3 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for FC Volendam with 7 goals conceded in these matches.

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Ajax form and stats

Playing away, Ajax have won 3 games, drawn 0 and suffered 1 defeat in the Eredivisie this season.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Champions League home loss versus Napoli with 1-6 on the scoreboard. The attacker Kudus got a match rating of 7.03 in that game. Kudus scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Go Ahead Eagles.

Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Ajax given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 17 matches with 15 wins as expected, 1 draw and 1 surprise home win. The favourites won 6 of these games by at least two goals.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Ajax manager Schreuder as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Napoli.

Ajax are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 7 times in 4 away games so far.

Head 2 Head

As for the last four games between these two teams, there's one FC Volendam victory, zero draws and three Ajax wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AjaxS. Bergwijn
S. Bergwijn
6 goals
AjaxM. Kudus
M. Kudus
4 goals
AjaxK. Taylor
K. Taylor
3 goals

FC Volendam missing players

Ajax missing players

FC Volendam Ajax
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
8 3 1 Played P 1 4 8
1 1 1 Won W 1 3 6
2 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
5 2 0 Lost L 0 1 1
8 4 1 Scored S 3 7 23
23 7 0 Conceded C 2 4 6
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
88% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 88%
62% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 62%
62% 67% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 25% 50%
38% 67% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 25% 38%
62% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 50%
12% 33% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 50%
25% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
5.4 6 4 Corners for (avg) C F 10 6.5 8.2
8.4 8.7 10 Corners against (avg) C A 3 2.8 2.2
1.5 2.3 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.5 1.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.9 15.3 12 Shots (avg) S ( 18 15.2 18.6
5 6 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 5 6.6
20% 22% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 35% 43%
 
17 13.7 18 Shots against (avg) S A 13 9.8 7
7.2 5.7 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3.8 2.8
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • Ajax have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Ajax have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Ajax have scored more than double the goals of FC Volendam.
  • Ajax have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Eredivisie
  • Ajax have the the best goal difference (+17) in Eredivisie
  • Ajax have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Ajax have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Ajax haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • FC Volendam have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • FC Volendam have the most conceded goals (23) in Eredivisie
  • FC Volendam have the most conceded goals in the first half (11) in Eredivisie
  • FC Volendam have the the worst goal difference (-15) in Eredivisie
  • FC Volendam 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 AZ 8 6 2 0 17 6 4 2 2 0 6 3 4 4 0 0 11 3 11 20
2 Ajax 8 6 1 1 23 6 4 3 1 0 16 2 4 3 0 1 7 4 17 19
3 PSV 8 6 0 2 28 13 4 4 0 0 16 5 4 2 0 2 12 8 15 18
4 Feyenoord 8 5 2 1 21 10 3 2 1 0 7 0 5 3 1 1 14 10 11 17
5 FC Twente 8 5 1 2 15 5 4 4 0 0 12 1 4 1 1 2 3 4 10 16
6 SC Heerenveen 8 3 4 1 8 7 4 2 2 0 4 2 4 1 2 1 4 5 1 13
7 FC Utrecht 8 3 3 2 10 10 4 1 2 1 1 2 4 2 1 1 9 8 0 12
8 Sparta Rotterdam 8 3 2 3 11 10 4 2 0 2 8 5 4 1 2 1 3 5 1 11
9 RKC Waalwijk 8 2 4 2 17 12 5 2 2 1 14 8 3 0 2 1 3 4 5 10
10 NEC 8 1 6 1 8 6 4 0 3 1 3 4 4 1 3 0 5 2 2 9
11 Excelsior 8 3 0 5 10 19 4 2 0 2 6 9 4 1 0 3 4 10 -9 9
12 FC Groningen 8 2 2 4 8 16 4 1 1 2 4 7 4 1 1 2 4 9 -8 8
13 Go Ahead Eagles 8 2 1 5 11 16 4 1 0 3 7 10 4 1 1 2 4 6 -5 7
14 Fortuna Sittard 8 2 1 5 11 17 5 2 0 3 9 11 3 0 1 2 2 6 -6 7
15 SC Cambuur 8 2 1 5 8 14 4 1 0 3 3 4 4 1 1 2 5 10 -6 7
16 Vitesse 8 1 2 5 7 19 4 0 2 2 5 12 4 1 0 3 2 7 -12 5
17 FC Emmen 8 1 2 5 6 18 4 1 2 1 4 6 4 0 0 4 2 12 -12 5
18 FC Volendam 8 1 2 5 8 23 3 1 0 2 4 7 5 0 2 3 4 16 -15 5

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.