Feyenoord welcome AZ Alkmaar to De Kuip for round eight of the Eredivisie. Feyenoord enter the match as the clear favorites with a 53% win probability, compared to the 24% chance assigned to AZ Alkmaar two days before kickoff.
Current Form - Feyenoord
Feyenoord are second in the league with 17 points. In their last league match, the team won 5-0 at home against Utrecht. In their last five, they have four wins and one draw. They are currently on a seven-match unbeaten run, including five wins and two draws.
Current Form - AZ Alkmaar
AZ Alkmaar are first in the league with 19 points. In their last league match, they won 1-0 at home against Telstar. In their last five, they have recorded four wins and one draw, and they are currently on a seven-match unbeaten run.
Head-to-Head Record
There is an average of 3.0 goals per meeting across the last five encounters between Feyenoord and AZ Alkmaar. Feyenoord holds a record of three wins and two draws from these matches. Feyenoord were unbeaten in their last eight meetings against AZ Alkmaar, a run of six wins and two draws. Their most recent meeting last season ended in a 1-1 draw at Feyenoord.
Key Players to Watch and Missing Players
Gjivai Zechiel leads Feyenoord with five goals and four assists at an average rating of 8.4, holding the rank of first in the league scoring charts. Anis Hadj Moussa has five goals and one assist at an average rating of 8.5; all of these were scored in his last five matches, averaging a match rating of 8.6 over that run, including a brace in his last game. Feyenoord will be without Tsuyoshi Watanabe, who is sidelined with a leg injury.
Mexx Meerdink provides AZ Alkmaar with three goals and two assists at an average rating of 7.3. Ro-Zangelo Daal contributes four goals for AZ Alkmaar and has scored three goals in his last four matches at an 8.3 average match rating.
Key Numbers
↔️ Big chance conversion: Feyenoord 38% vs AZ Alkmaar 30%
Feyenoord
➕ Shots on target: 8.6 per match (best in the league, league average 5.3)
➕ Touches in opposition box: 46.0 per match (2nd best, league average 28.4)
➕ Expected goals conceded (xGA): 0.82 per match (2nd best, league average 1.72)
AZ Alkmaar
➕ Expected goals (xG): 2.55 per match (4th best, league average 1.72)
➕ Through passes: 2.3 per match (best in the league, league average 1.3)
➕ Shots on target conceded: 2.3 per match (best in the league, league average 5.3)
Match Notes
Jordy Clasie joined AZ Alkmaar from Feyenoord, where he scored nine league goals in 142 appearances across two spells covering five seasons.
Betting Insights
Bookmakers set the goal line at 2.5 with a 67% probability of the total exceeding that mark. The both-teams-to-score market assigns a 66% chance that both sides will find the net in this match.
Goals implied by the odds: 3.5
These figures come from the pre-match odds two days before kickoff.
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