Perhaps a welcome break from league football as RKC Waalwijk & AZ face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the KNVB Beker. All the pre-match information is available here!
This arena uses artifical turf, unlike AZ's home stadium. The former nine games by the away team on artifical turf have given 4 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for RKC Waalwijk and AZ.
RKC Waalwijk form and stats
Waalwijk participated in KNVB Beker the last season, where they reached the 1st round.4-1-5 (win-draw-lost) are the Eredivisie numbers at home for RKC Waalwijk so far this season.
RKC Waalwijk faced defeat in their previous match, away at Willem II (1-3). Odgaard, who usually plays near the opponent's goal, was the top player for the side in that fixture, collecting a rating of 7.1 (out of 10). Odgaard hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 6 times.
Previous to that game, a Eredivisie home match hosting Fortuna Sittard in a game that was won 2-1.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for RKC Waalwijk, as the Eredivisie home game vs Feyenoord is only four days away.
Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 17 goals have been conceded.
AZ form and stats
Last season their KNVB Beker adventure ended in the 8th finals.5-1-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for AZ in their Eredivisie matches away.
AZ play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting PSV. Karlsson got a match rating of 8.03 in that game, top player of the team. Karlsson scored one goal, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times and had 25 successful passes (of 31 total).
A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting SC Cambuur in the Eredivisie.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the AZ manager Jansen as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Go Ahead Eagles.
The visiting AZ have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 15 goals from 11 games. AZ have conceded 15 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
RKC Waalwijk-AZ H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: RKC Waalwijk two wins, AZ seven wins, one draw. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  J. Karlsson 9 goals |   M. Kramer 8 goals |  J. Odgaard 7 goals |
RKC Waalwijk missing players
AZ missing players
| RKC Waalwijk | AZ | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 18 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Lost | L | 3 | 3 | ||
| 40 | 21 | Scored | S | 15 | 47 | ||
| 38 | 21 | Conceded | C | 12 | 20 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 68% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 52% | ||
| 40% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | ||
| 64% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 16% | ||
| 4.1 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 5.2 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 3.4 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 1.6 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.6 | 12.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 13.4 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 5.3 | ||
| 42% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 36% | ||
| 13.2 | 12.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.2 | 9.8 | ||
| 4.9 | 4.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.2 | ||
| 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 | 21 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 64 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 59 | 51 |
| 2 | PSV | 21 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 49 | 28 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 29 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 21 | 46 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 21 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 50 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 9 | 31 | 45 |
| 4 | FC Twente | 21 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 34 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 41 |
| 5 | AZ | 21 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 39 | 25 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 39 |
| 6 | Vitesse | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 27 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 15 | -4 | 36 |
| 7 | FC Utrecht | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 39 | 28 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 35 |
| 8 | SC Cambuur | 21 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 35 | 43 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 22 | -8 | 30 |
| 9 | NEC | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 26 | 31 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 17 | -5 | 27 |
| 10 | FC Groningen | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 25 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -5 | 25 |
| 11 | SC Heerenveen | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -10 | 25 |
| 12 | RKC Waalwijk | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 34 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 17 | -10 | 22 |
| 13 | Go Ahead Eagles | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 34 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 19 | -13 | 22 |
| 14 | Willem II | 21 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 21 | 40 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 23 | -19 | 21 |
| 15 | Heracles | 21 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 22 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 17 | -8 | 20 |
| 16 | Fortuna Sittard | 21 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 50 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 23 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 27 | -27 | 16 |
| 17 | Sparta Rotterdam | 21 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 35 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 18 | -19 | 14 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 21 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 33 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 21 | -20 | 13 |
