About Match
7 points and 10 places separate them: SC Heerenveen 12th with 5, AZ Alkmaar 2nd with 12. Against a league average of 2 goals per team per game, SC Heerenveen run at 1.25 scored and 1.5 conceded, AZ Alkmaar at 3.25 and 0.75. Three points here take SC Heerenveen to 8 and up to 5th, assuming other results stand.
AZ Alkmaar have won seven straight, having scored in 13 consecutive games. The five-game form split reads 8/15 points for SC Heerenveen against 15/15 for AZ Alkmaar.
39 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — SC Heerenveen 12, draws 6, AZ Alkmaar 21, at 3.87 goals per meeting. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 77% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 67%. Goals have risen lately: 5.2 per game across the last five meetings, against 3.87 across the full history.
The venue is Abe Lenstra Stadion, with room for 27,224 spectators.