NEC will plan to employ their home advantage to get one over today’s opponents. The team playing at home are currently 17 points behind AZ.
- NEC have the most dropped points from leading position (26) in Eredivisie
- AZ is in the best form (5-1-0) in Eredivisie
AZ could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a KNVB Beker game only three sleeps ago.
NEC form and stats
With 2 Eredivisie wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats from their home games, NEC are certainly not brimming with confidence.
The club members are hoping that NEC will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-4 away loss in the match against Vitesse (placed 6th). Midfield player Duelund got a match rating of 7.04 in that game, the max score being 10. Duelund scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus RKC Waalwijk.15 goals have been conceded.
AZ form and stats
6-1-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for AZ in their Eredivisie matches away. In general it has been a productive period now for AZ as they haven't lost any of their last 13 games.
Defender Indi was the best team player with a rating of 7.22. Indi won 11 of 16 duels.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Feyenoord in the Eredivisie.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Europa Conference League trip to Bodø / Glimt.
AZ has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 19 goals from 12 games. AZ have conceded 16 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The records show that this isn''t the first time these two sides face each other this campaign, as the results database show this recent fixture: AZ - NEC 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): NEC three wins, three draws and AZ four victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Karlsson 11 goals |  V. Pavlidis 10 goals |  D. de Wit 7 goals |
NEC missing players
AZ missing players
| NEC | AZ | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 24 |
| 8 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 6 | 15 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 29 | 11 | 2 | Scored | S | 9 | 19 | 47 |
| 36 | 15 | 7 | Conceded | C | 7 | 16 | 28 |
| 92% | 82% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 92% |
| 75% | 73% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 79% |
| 46% | 45% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 67% | 71% |
| 25% | 18% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 75% | 42% | 42% |
| 21% | 18% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 17% | 25% |
| 54% | 45% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 67% | 67% |
| 33% | 36% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 8% | 17% |
| 21% | 36% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 33% | 25% |
| 3.8 | 5.5 | 2.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 5.2 | 5.8 |
| 6.3 | 6.3 | 9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.8 | 4.8 | 3.5 |
| 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 11.3 | 13.9 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.2 | 12.3 | 13.1 |
| 4.2 | 5.2 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.4 | 5.1 |
| 28% | 19% | 15% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 36% | 39% |
| 16.1 | 15.3 | 20.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 12.9 | 10.1 |
| 4.8 | 4.7 | 9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.8 | 3.8 |
- AZ have the most points from losing position (19) in Eredivisie
- AZ is in the best form (5-1-0) in Eredivisie
- NEC have the most dropped points from leading position (26) 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 | 24 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 71 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 46 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 4 | 64 | 57 |
| 2 | PSV | 24 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 59 | 30 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 32 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 13 | 29 | 55 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 24 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 56 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 11 | 34 | 51 |
| 4 | AZ | 24 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 47 | 28 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 19 | 48 |
| 5 | FC Twente | 24 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 38 | 30 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 22 | 8 | 45 |
| 6 | Vitesse | 24 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 32 | 38 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 16 | -6 | 40 |
| 7 | FC Utrecht | 24 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 42 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 11 | 39 |
| 8 | SC Cambuur | 24 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 41 | 51 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 23 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 25 | -10 | 33 |
| 9 | NEC | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 29 | 36 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 21 | -7 | 31 |
| 10 | FC Groningen | 24 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 27 | 32 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 23 | -5 | 29 |
| 11 | Heracles | 24 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 26 | 32 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 19 | -6 | 26 |
| 12 | Go Ahead Eagles | 24 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 26 | 41 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 20 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 21 | -15 | 26 |
| 13 | SC Heerenveen | 24 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 22 | 36 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -14 | 25 |
| 14 | RKC Waalwijk | 24 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 26 | 39 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 18 | -13 | 23 |
| 15 | Willem II | 24 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 21 | 43 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 25 | -22 | 21 |
| 16 | Fortuna Sittard | 23 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 25 | 52 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 23 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 29 | -27 | 19 |
| 17 | Sparta Rotterdam | 23 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 37 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 18 | -19 | 17 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 24 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 39 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 26 | -21 | 17 |
