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AZ placed himself Thursday night with pain and trouble for the finals of the Cup. The Alkmaar won on penalties Jupiler League club Cambuur and on April 30 to win the cup for the fifth time. For so far there are only a number of league games scheduled for Alkmaar, starting today with a home match against Excelsior kite low.
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AZ Alkmaar :
AZ had Thursday night very difficult to Cambuur. The Leeuwarders dug in against Alkmaar and came in the first half often dangerous. In the second half missed AZ striker Fred Friday, which was preferred Wout Weghorst, a dot of a chance and it seemed the game so to be heading for an extension. In the closing seconds Stijn Wuytens admittedly made the 1-0, but the goal was disallowed by video referee who saw the push of Levi Garcia at Cambuur goalkeeper Leonard Nienhuis indeed unlike referee Kevin Blom. Eventually penalty shootout had to come to pass at the AFAS Stadium and had Tim Krul – like the 2014 World Cup – the hero.
“This is truly a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful feeling. It’s great to go so to De Kuip ‘, as Krul spoke about his role on Thursday night. Through action by Krul, who picked up only one of the three missed penalty kicks, the pressure seems to be a bit of the boiler for Newcastle United-mercenary. Since then curl below the bar is at the AZ Alkmaar conceded a whopping eighteen goals in six games, but Curl did so against Cambuur his goal clean for the first time in the service of Alkmaar. Also AZ coach Van den Brom was pleased with the performance of Curl against Cambuur: “This is a quality of him. We’ve already standing cheering with the country, then it’s great that he lives up to it again. ”
A week ago AZ went 7-1 slicing in France visiting Olympique Lyon, when Van den Brom could pack his belongings according to the AZ fans, but the coach has now regained some credit. Van den Brom admitted after the game that a lot can change in a few days time, “Last week we were almost crying. If you then against Cambuur may drop as a team, I think that’s very nice. “Given the busy schedule of Alkmaar and the fact that Thursday night would be logical then penalty kicks had to be useful as Van den Brom against Excelsior not plays with his strongest eleven. The Alkmaar have been placed in principle for the play-offs for European football and track the Europa League with a cup victory. All in all, it remains to be seen how seriously AZ takes today’s game.
Probable lineup AZ Alkmaar
Curl; Johansson, Vlaar, Wuytens, Haps; Luck Assen, Seun Parties, Rienstra; Jahanbakhsh, Friday, Garcia.
Excelsior :
If AZ’s game today not take too seriously the Excelsior did not even so much that they need in Alkmaar visit. For Kralingers makes the final months anyway not really matter whether it against a title contender (PSV 2-0 loss), mid-engined (4-0 loss against Heracles Almelo) or a relegation candidate (4-0 loss against Roda JC) games, for the team of Mitchell van der Gaag is surely down. Last weekend Excelsior suffered the thirteenth defeat of the season. On Stadium Woudestein came performing Willem II Tilburg decided to visit and in the second half in no time the game: 0-2.
The Kralingers are now in the seventeenth position and ahead of ADO Den Haag is only one point. The last time Van der Gaag saw his team win was on November 19 Sparta (3-2), but despite the coach has still confident he is the right coach for the Kralingers. “I still feel like I can hit the group. We must now regroup us. The fans are negative, we must guard against us. ”
Van der Gaag so has confidence in a good outcome, but how the club from Kralingen working again gets he does not know: “How I’m going to turn around? That is a good question. If I had known, I would have done it long ago. “In Alkmaar is the case Kralingers to grab points. The program is the next few weeks at least not easy for Van der Gaag – Excelsior takes successively against AZ (off), Heerenveen (home) and Ajax (home). In addition, the Excelsior is anyway very difficult to even book wins the last ten games, because with Sparta and ADO Den Haag (both away games) Excelsior only affects two rivals this season.
Probable lineup Excelsior
Hahn; Karami, Mattheij, the Wise, Kuipers; Vermeulen, Bruins, Koolwijk, Faik; Hasselbaink, Fredy.
AZ Alkmaar vs Excelsior – Head to head
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