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Palmeiras and Atletico Tucumán face off in Allianz Parque, in a game for this phase of the Copa Libertadores (Group Stage). Particular attention is needed for the home / off condition, as both teams present significantly different results at home and away.
AZ Alkmaar :
At AZ they lost the last three games in the league and the Alkmaarders made it very difficult to get to FC Groningen, which last week remained unbeaten in the Eredivisie. John van den Brom’s team won last week Wednesday with 1-4 at the Noordlease Stadium and the return of last Saturday was actually a formality. Although the Groningers had to be in the AFAS Stadium, Van den Brom’s team was on the lead in ten minutes when AZ talent Calvin Stengs was largely responsible for Wout Weghorst’s opening match. In the first half, the Groningers came to the same level, but in the first half of the second half, heads of Joris van Overeem and Calvin Stengs ensured that AZ did not have to worry about the final spot. Eventually Wout Weghorst, with his second goal of the evening, scored the final score at 4-1.
The Alkmaarders won over two matches, with 8-2 from FC Groningen and the victory in the second match was complete. Although Wout Weghorst scored three times over two games against FC Groningen, young AZ player Celvin Stengs hit the Alkmaarders. Stengs won this season with Jong AZ simple champion in the Second Division, but showed against FC Groningen that he could also be a added value for the first team. The 18-year-old Stengs is only used by Van den Brom since the end of the season, and the outside player is sorry. “It is a pity that the end of the season is approaching, but next season I will be there again”, so the outsiders knew who enjoyed the past week. “It was definitely a beautiful week, I will not forget that week anymore.”
Van den Brom lost this season with AZ’s cup finals (2-0 loss against Vitesse), but if AZ are ready to place for the Europa League league they may not be dissatisfied in Alkmaar. The AZ coach saw his team with 1-4 win in the Noordlease Stadium and hoped that AZ could also make a good result in his own house: “We have been busy in the past few days to hold the good feeling and that is Certainly succeeded. It was once again a fresh and frivolous team that made fantastic goals. ” FC Utrecht is thus the last horde for the Europa League and Van den Brom hopes his players can take the form of the last two games against the Domstedelingen: “It will be two nice matches with FC Utrecht, in which we should show that we are very happy To play European football. ‘
Probable setup AZ Alkmaar
Curl; Svensson, Vlaar, Luckassen, Haps; Wuytens, Seuntjes, van Overeem; Stengs, Weghorst, dos Santos.
Utrecht :
FC Utrecht is of course the favorite for this two-piece. The Utrechters ended up in thirteen-point league league matches on AZ and wreaked out the Europe League dream of Heerenveen this week. The Utrechters won the first match in Friesland by 1-3 and could have made a number of goals in the Abe Lenstra Stadium. The Domstedelingen also managed to win the visitors from Friesland: 2-1. Although in his home, only one goal difference from SC Heerenveen was won, Erik to Hag can be satisfied with the game of his team against the Frisians, because in their own Galgenwaard the Domstars had enough chances to be Heerenveen keeper Erwin Mulder several times pass.
The class difference between FC Utrecht and Heerenveen was just too big. The Judges have a selection to lick your fingers and could possibly be the first Dutch team since 2010, who know how to play through the play-offs for the Group League phase. Ten Hag also saw that his team over two games was a lot better than SC Heerenveen: “Sometimes it was enjoyable, with chopping balls, but also often from the functionality. We create opportunities and make goals, only if we could make more goals, I think ‘
At FC Utrecht they will travel with confidence to Alkmaar. The Judges knew their last five games to win and the last time the Utrechters lost points in the league against a team outside the top 3 was on March 11 this year – the Utrechters then lost 2-1 from Heracles Almelo and the Almeloërs scored only the winning hit in the injury time. In addition, Erik’s team managed two weeks ago, at the final competition day, to win 2-3 in the AFAS Stadium. The Utrechters benefited from a loss in Alkmaar – which would yield 750,000 euros extra TV money – and did not play with the best team but simply left Alkmaar.
Probable setup FC Utrecht
Jensen; Klaiber, Leeuwin, Janssen, Hardeveld; Brama, Amrabat, Labyad, Ayoub; Church, Haller.
AZ Alkmaar vs Utrecht head to head matches
14.05.17 ERE AZ Alkmaar Utrecht 2 : 3
21.08.16 ERE Utrecht AZ Alkmaar 1 : 2
08.05.16 ERE Utrecht AZ Alkmaar 1 : 3
19.12.15 ERE AZ Alkmaar Utrecht 2 : 2
08.03.15 ERE Utrecht AZ Alkmaar 6 : 2