Delightful dogfight as daring Go Ahead Eagles duel with determined RKC Waalwijk

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sat 15.January
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: De Adelaarshorst (8000 seats)

A total of 18 league fixtures are played and Go Ahead Eagles are 5 points on top of RKC Waalwijk. Who will win?

Insights:
  • Go Ahead Eagles have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • RKC Waalwijk have yet to win a game away.

This field has the surface grass, unlike RKC Waalwijk's home stadium. The last 26 games by the away team on grass have seen 4 wins, 6 draws and 16 losses.

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Go Ahead Eagles form and stats

4-0-5 (win-draw-lost) are the Eredivisie numbers at home for Go Ahead Eagles so far this season. Three consecutive losses here at De Adelaarshorst is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.

Eagles haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 321 minutes ago. Cordoba scored that one.

In their previous game, the manager van Wonderen led his Eagles to a defeat in the Eredivisie match away at PSV. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at De Adelaarshorst. Hahn, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.43 out of 10 in that game. Hahn stopped the opponent with five saves.

Before that game, the home loss against NEC with the scoreline 0-2.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Eagles have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found twelve games) they have won seven times, drawn three and lost two.

Eagles are traveling soon after this match as the KNVB Beker match at SC Heerenveen awaits in three days.

The Eagles fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 13 in 9 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. On the other hand, Eagles have conceded 13 goals.

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RKC Waalwijk form and stats

There's been little loot from RKC Waalwijk's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 9 away games in the Eredivisie. RKC Waalwijk only have 0 wins to counter their 3 defeats and 6 draws.

Waalwijk has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Sparta Rotterdam for a Eredivisie game that ended a draw (1-1). Vaessen had red hot gloves after the game against Sparta Rotterdam, shaping the outcome of the game with six saves made. Vaessen (goalkeeper) was the best performer with a rating of 7.6. Vaessen stopped the opponent with six saves.

A loss against PSV was the result prior to that, in a home game.

We have checked recent matches where Waalwijk have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those six games were zero victories, zero draws and six defeats.

A quick return to home after this game, as RKC Waalwijk are hosting ADO Den Haag in the KNVB Beker only three days away.

The visiting Waalwijk have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 11 goals from 9 games. Waalwijk struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 14 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

This was the end result when the squads faced each other earlier this campaign; RKC Waalwijk - Eagles 1-1. Data for the previous ten meetings featuring these two participants are: three wins for Eagles, four draws and three wins for RKC Waalwijk. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.

Top Goalscorers

RKC WaalwijkJ. Odgaard
J. Odgaard
7 goals
EaglesI. Córdoba Kerejeta
I. Córdoba Kerejeta
6 goals
Go Ahead EaglesL. Brouwers
L. Brouwers
5 goals

Go Ahead Eagles missing players

RKC Waalwijk missing players

Go Ahead Eagles RKC Waalwijk
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 9 4 Played P 3 9 18
6 4 4 Won W 0 0 3
3 0 0 Drew D 2 6 7
9 5 0 Lost L 1 3 8
19 13 11 Scored S 5 11 19
29 13 5 Conceded C 6 14 30
89% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
67% 67% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 78% 72%
39% 44% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 56% 56%
22% 22% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 44% 33%
22% 22% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 11% 17%
39% 44% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 78% 67%
28% 22% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 17%
44% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 22%
 
4.1 5 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4.7 3.4 3.9
5.7 5.2 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5.7 6 5.2
1.4 1.3 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 1.8 1.7
5 4 2 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
10.8 13.6 16 Shots (avg) S ( 11 8.8 10.2
3.5 4.2 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 2.3 2.9
30% 34% 52% Goal Efficiency G E 71% 52% 36%
 
17.3 14.7 13.8 Shots against (avg) S A 13.3 16.1 15.3
5.9 5 3.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.7 5.5
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • Go Ahead Eagles have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Go Ahead Eagles have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Go Ahead Eagles haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • RKC Waalwijk have yet to win a 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 PSV 18 14 1 3 46 24 9 8 0 1 27 12 9 6 1 2 19 12 22 43
2 Ajax 18 13 3 2 56 4 10 7 1 2 38 3 8 6 2 0 18 1 52 42
3 Feyenoord 18 12 3 3 42 17 9 7 1 1 24 9 9 5 2 2 18 8 25 39
4 Vitesse 18 10 3 5 25 25 9 4 2 3 10 13 9 6 1 2 15 12 0 33
5 AZ 18 10 2 6 35 23 9 7 1 1 24 10 9 3 1 5 11 13 12 32
6 FC Twente 18 9 5 4 28 22 8 4 3 1 10 6 10 5 2 3 18 16 6 32
7 FC Utrecht 18 8 5 5 33 23 9 6 3 0 23 7 9 2 2 5 10 16 10 29
8 SC Cambuur 18 9 1 8 32 39 9 4 0 5 17 20 9 5 1 3 15 19 -7 28
9 NEC 18 7 4 7 24 26 8 2 2 4 9 10 10 5 2 3 15 16 -2 25
10 SC Heerenveen 18 7 4 7 20 25 10 3 2 5 11 17 8 4 2 2 9 8 -5 25
11 Go Ahead Eagles 18 6 3 9 19 29 9 4 0 5 13 13 9 2 3 4 6 16 -10 21
12 FC Groningen 18 4 7 7 20 27 8 1 6 1 7 6 10 3 1 6 13 21 -7 19
13 Heracles Almelo 18 5 3 10 21 26 10 5 2 3 15 12 8 0 1 7 6 14 -5 18
14 Willem II 18 5 3 10 18 36 9 3 1 5 7 15 9 2 2 5 11 21 -18 18
15 RKC Waalwijk 18 3 7 8 19 30 9 3 1 5 8 16 9 0 6 3 11 14 -11 16
16 Sparta Rotterdam 18 2 7 9 15 27 10 1 5 4 9 14 8 1 2 5 6 13 -12 13
17 Fortuna Sittard 18 3 4 11 19 46 8 2 2 4 10 21 10 1 2 7 9 25 -27 13
18 PEC Zwolle 18 1 3 14 9 32 9 1 2 6 4 11 9 0 1 8 5 21 -23 6

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.