Ajax cannot envision any pleasantries from hosting team NEC in this Eredivisie game. Here's your complete match guide!
- NEC have the most dropped points from leading position (29) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most scored goals (85) in Eredivisie
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
NEC form and stats
With 2 Eredivisie wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats from their home games, NEC, who have the fewest points (11) at home in Eredivisie, are certainly not brimming with confidence. With nine home Eredivisie games in a row without a win, the NEC fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the FC Groningen game long ago, can be stopped today.
NEC's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-2 versus FC Twente (placed 4th). Defender Karouani got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.22/10. Karouani hit three key passes and won 9 of 16 duels.
In the game before, an away victory match versus SC Cambuur with a 2-1 scoreline.The goals haven't exactly been flowing for NEC here at Goffertstadion in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (12 from 14 games). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. NEC have conceded 20 in these home matches.
Ajax form and stats
Ajax have been very strong on the road so far with a massive 35 points collected from 14 Eredivisie games. 11 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat is the record so far. Impressively, the visitors are on a five-match winning run which they hope continue versus NEC.
Two away matches in a row for Ajax, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 vs PSV in the KNVB Beker. Martínez was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.4. The defender Martínez won 12 of 16 duels.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Sparta Rotterdam in the Eredivisie.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 14 wins as expected, two draws and one surprise home win. The favourites won eight of these games by at least two goals.
The Ajax manager Hag has got the team scoring on the road, with 31 away goals in 14 league matches. It's not easy to score on Ajax as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
NEC and Ajax have played each other before this season: Ajax - NEC 5-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): NEC zero wins, two draws and Ajax eight victories. As for goals, nine matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Haller 20 goals |  D. Tadić 12 goals |  A. dos Santos 8 goals |
NEC missing players
Ajax missing players
| NEC | Ajax | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 29 | 14 | 5 | Played | P | 5 | 14 | 29 |
| 9 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 4 | 11 | 23 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | 7 | 5 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 35 | 12 | 3 | Scored | S | 12 | 31 | 85 |
| 46 | 20 | 12 | Conceded | C | 5 | 7 | 15 |
| 90% | 79% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 93% |
| 76% | 71% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 79% | 83% |
| 48% | 43% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 80% | 50% | 69% |
| 28% | 21% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 29% | 45% |
| 21% | 14% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 21% | 41% |
| 55% | 43% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 36% | 31% |
| 31% | 36% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 40% | 64% | 66% |
| 24% | 43% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 7% | 10% |
| 4.1 | 5.3 | 2.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 6.4 | 7.4 |
| 6.2 | 6 | 7.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.6 |
| 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11.5 | 13.6 | 8.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16.8 | 17.2 | 20.6 |
| 4.3 | 4.8 | 3.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 5.9 | 7.6 |
| 28% | 18% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 38% | 38% |
| 15.3 | 13.7 | 16.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.8 | 8.5 | 7.6 |
| 4.6 | 4.3 | 7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
- Ajax have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Ajax have scored more than double the goals of NEC.
- Ajax have the fewest conceded goals (15) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (9) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most clean sheets (19) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most clean sheets (9) away in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most points (35) away in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most scored goals (85) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most scored goals in the first half (41) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the most scored goals in the second half (44) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the the best goal difference (+24) away in Eredivisie
- Ajax have the the best goal difference (+70) in Eredivisie
- Ajax have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- NEC have the fewest points (11) at home in Eredivisie
- NEC have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Eredivisie
- NEC have the most dropped points from leading position (29) in Eredivisie
- NEC have won significantly more corners at home than 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 | Ajax | 29 | 23 | 3 | 3 | 85 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 54 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 7 | 70 | 72 |
| 2 | PSV | 29 | 22 | 2 | 5 | 73 | 34 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 42 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 31 | 16 | 39 | 68 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 29 | 19 | 4 | 6 | 67 | 28 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 33 | 16 | 39 | 61 |
| 4 | FC Twente | 29 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 46 | 33 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 22 | 13 | 58 |
| 5 | AZ | 29 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 56 | 35 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 31 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 21 | 21 | 55 |
| 6 | Vitesse | 28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 35 | 43 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 19 | -8 | 44 |
| 7 | FC Utrecht | 29 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 46 | 38 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 29 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 42 |
| 8 | FC Groningen | 29 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 37 | 43 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 28 | -6 | 36 |
| 9 | Go Ahead Eagles | 29 | 10 | 6 | 13 | 35 | 43 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 21 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 22 | -8 | 36 |
| 10 | NEC | 29 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 35 | 46 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 26 | -11 | 35 |
| 11 | SC Heerenveen | 29 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 28 | 38 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 22 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -10 | 34 |
| 12 | SC Cambuur | 29 | 10 | 3 | 16 | 44 | 61 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 26 | 31 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 30 | -17 | 33 |
| 13 | Heracles | 29 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 30 | 41 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 24 | -11 | 30 |
| 14 | RKC Waalwijk | 29 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 31 | 46 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 22 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 24 | -15 | 28 |
| 15 | Fortuna Sittard | 29 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 30 | 61 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 26 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 35 | -31 | 26 |
| 16 | PEC Zwolle | 29 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 22 | 44 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 27 | -22 | 23 |
| 17 | Willem II | 29 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 23 | 52 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 32 | -29 | 23 |
| 18 | Sparta Rotterdam | 28 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 21 | 43 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 23 | -22 | 22 |
