About Match
11 points and 12 places separate them: AZ Alkmaar 2nd with 16, FC Utrecht 14th with 5. FC Utrecht rank 10th in the league on five-round form, well above their 14th table position. Scoring rates set the scale: AZ Alkmaar 2.83 scored and 1 conceded per game, FC Utrecht 1.83 and 3.17, with the league averaging 1.95. Three points here take AZ Alkmaar to 19 and up to 1st, assuming other results stand.
Defeat has not touched AZ Alkmaar in 15 games, having scored in 15 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: AZ Alkmaar 13/15, FC Utrecht 5/15.
The sides have met 36 times in the GioScore results database: 14 wins for AZ Alkmaar, 9 draws and 13 for FC Utrecht, at 3.5 goals per meeting. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 69% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 56%.
The match takes place at AFAS Stadion in Alkmaar (capacity 19,500).