National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Ajax or PSV that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Champions League.
Ajax form and stats
Ajax have been outstanding at home so far in the Eredivisie with 14 wins, 2 draws and only 1 loss. Ajax haven’t lost a league-game in 23 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus FC Twente, 244 days ago.
Happy days for Ajax in their previous game, a Eredivisie match away at Vitesse that ended with a 3-1 victory. Lisandro Martínez was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.1 out of 10. The defender Martínez scored one goal and won 6 of 7 duels.
In the preceding match a 3-1 victory visiting Vitesse.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Ajax's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played one game, won one match, drawn zero and lost zero.
With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of Ajax is on fire here. A stunning 53 from 17 league matches. From these home matches, Ajax have conceded only 14 goals.
PSV form and stats
The visitors are W8-D6-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Eredivisie.
The supporters enjoyed PSV's previous game versus Midtjylland, a Champions League 3-0 win played at home. The attacker Noni Madueke got a match rating of 8.64 in that game. Madueke scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled passed the opponent 6 of 8 times and had 32 successful passes (of 38 total). It was a convincing performance from PSV when Midtjylland were beaten. The team "killed" the match in the first half leading 3-0 and the second half was comfortable. Mario Götze, Cody Gakpo and Noni Madueke scored their goals.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Galatasaray at their stadium, the result 2-1.Looking at the earlier recent performances of PSV when being an outsider away as they are today, we find one match with the visitors losing one time, drawing zero and winning zero games.
PSV has another fixture away, a Champions League game, against Midtjylland in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, PSV are regular goalscorers on their travels. PSV have conceded 22 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Ajax victories, three draws and two PSV wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Ajax missing players
PSV missing players
| Ajax | PSV | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 10 | Won | W | 5 | 15 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 4 | 4 | ||
| 62 | 38 | Scored | S | 26 | 61 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Conceded | C | 17 | 28 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 83% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 64% | ||
| 36% | 58% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 20% | ||
| 52% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 64% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 32% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 8% | ||
| 6.1 | 6.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.6 | 5.9 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 2.9 | ||
| 1.1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.3 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 14.6 | 17.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.3 | 15.9 | ||
| 5.9 | 6.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 7 | ||
| 41% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 28% | ||
| 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 | 34 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 102 | 23 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 53 | 14 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 49 | 9 | 79 | 88 |
| 2 | PSV | 34 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 74 | 35 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 39 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 35 | 22 | 39 | 72 |
| 3 | AZ | 34 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 75 | 41 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 39 | 18 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 36 | 23 | 34 | 71 |
| 4 | Vitesse | 34 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 52 | 38 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 12 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 26 | 26 | 14 | 61 |
| 5 | Feyenoord | 34 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 64 | 36 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 35 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 29 | 23 | 28 | 59 |
| 6 | FC Utrecht | 34 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 52 | 41 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 27 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 11 | 53 |
| 7 | FC Groningen | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 40 | 37 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 3 | 50 |
| 8 | Sparta Rotterdam | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 49 | 48 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 30 | 27 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 1 | 47 |
| 9 | Heracles | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 42 | 53 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 29 | 16 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 37 | -11 | 44 |
| 10 | FC Twente | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 48 | 50 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 23 | 25 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 25 | -2 | 41 |
| 11 | Fortuna Sittard | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 50 | 58 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 27 | 33 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 23 | 25 | -8 | 41 |
| 12 | SC Heerenveen | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 43 | 49 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 21 | 31 | -6 | 39 |
| 13 | PEC Zwolle | 34 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 44 | 53 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 25 | 35 | -9 | 38 |
| 14 | Willem II | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 40 | 68 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 22 | 33 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 35 | -28 | 31 |
| 15 | RKC Waalwijk | 34 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 33 | 55 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 25 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 30 | -22 | 30 |
| 16 | FC Emmen | 34 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 40 | 68 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 26 | 41 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 27 | -28 | 30 |
| 17 | VVV-Venlo | 34 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 43 | 91 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 46 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 23 | 45 | -48 | 23 |
| 18 | ADO Den Haag | 34 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 29 | 76 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 38 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 38 | -47 | 22 |