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Den Haag vs Utrecht Prediction & Betting tips
ADO The Hague and FC Utrecht can open the Eredivision season 2017/2018 on Friday evening. The Hagenezen had a difficult season last year, but ended up in the 12th place. At FC Utrecht they look back with a lot of fun last season, because the Utrechters won the playoffs for European football and the match against ADO The Hague is a great warm-up for the two play-off matches against Zenit St. Petersburg.
Den Haag :
The supporters of ADO The Hague would like their club to be the surprise of the Eredivisie this season, but everybody knows that the Hagenezen is likely to get very bad this season. Željko Petrović was fired last February in February and Alfons Groenendijk followed the Montengrijn and managed to keep ADO The Hague out of the match. Of course, the performance of Groenendijk was fantastic, but it is questionable whether ADO The Hague can continue the performance of the last months of last season. Groenendijk saw no less than nine players leaving last season for the Hagenezen, with Ruben Chess, Gervane Kastaneer, Tom Trybull, Abdenasser El Khayati, Dion Malone, Kevin Jansen, Mike Havenaar, Ernestas Šetkus and Wilfried Kanon. In addition, ADO The Hague tries to tie the Ivorian Wilfried Kanon back to the club, but it is quite difficult because he does not have a European passport.
Groenendijk also saw that the club leaders of the Hagenezen managed to present a number of acquisitions, but we only learned from Lex Immers (from Club Brugge) and, to a lesser extent, Bass Kuipers (Excelsior) that they can manage the level in the Eredivisie . Maybe we can add Elson Hay too, but the winner of the Carribbean Cup came last season in action in the Eredivisie and has only played in Cyprus and Denmark last season. Nick Kuipers, Melvyn Lorenzen and Bjørn Johnsen were also attracted by ADO, but nobody really knows what to expect from them.
At ADO The Hague they played ten training matches in the run-up to the season opener. Groenendijk saw his team win all ten training squads and in addition to the victories at some amateur clubs, 1-0 won the Jupiler League clubs MVV Maastricht and De Graafschap. After the game against De Graafschap, the ADO selection flew to China to conquer the China Trophy by winning 1-2 from Beijing Enterprises. In the last training match of this campaign last Saturday, the Hagenezen won 1-0 by Excelsior by a goalkeeper of the American Bjørn Johnsen.
Utrecht :
For FC Utrecht the season has begun a few weeks ago. The Utrechters played their first official match of this season against FC Valletta from Malta a month ago. The Domestic players played in the forefront of the Europa League goallessly at the MFA Centenary Stadium but knew at the Mandemakers Stadium of RKC because their own Galgenwaard was occupied because of the EK women’s football, winning 3-1 from the Malta club. In the next round, the Domstedelingen with Lech Poznan encountered an opponent of another caliber and the home match ended in a 0-0 draw. In Poland, the Utrechters arrived early in the lead by a goal Gyrano Kerk, but Lech Poznan was even in the first half. The NAC Breda’s Cyriel Dessers made the 1-2 in the INEA Stadium just before the injury time, making sure that the Utrechters managed to put themselves in the last round.
Next week Wednesday, the Utrechters take on the play-offs against Zenit St. Petersburg and so today, trust must be made at the Car Jeans Stadium. In the Eredivisie, the team of Erik ten Hag, like last season, is the favorite to finish in the ranking behind the traditional top 3. Last season, FC Utrecht scored 34 points after eleven points ahead of Vitesse chase and the Domstedelingen had a nineteen-point lead at SC Heerenveen, who was the opponent of FC Utrecht in the first play-off round. This summer, Sébastian Haller, Nacer Barazite, Sofyan Amrabat and Wout Brama left a lot of baseball players from the Dom, who were very important last year for the success of FC Utrecht. Nevertheless, Ten Hag also seems to have this season again available for a team that has to make the Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV difficult. Nevertheless, FC Utrecht supporters will only be one thing in the next two weeks: FC Utrecht will have to make a lot of pressure in the first place for the Europa League, otherwise all performance of last season has been for nothing.
Den Haag vs Utrecht head to head matches
05.03.17 ERE Utrecht Den Haag 1 : 1
04.12.16 ERE Den Haag Utrecht 0 : 2
13.03.16 ERE Utrecht Den Haag 2 : 2
23.08.15 ERE Den Haag Utrecht 1 : 1
12.04.15 ERE Den Haag Utrecht 2 : 0