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At FC Groningen, they knew to pee at the right time, and the season for FC Groningen has not ended. Wednesday evening, FC Groningen takes it in its own Noordlease Stadium against AZ. The Alkmaarders lost their last three duels and did not travel with great confidence to Groningen.
Groningen :
At FC Groningen it is getting better in the last few weeks. The Groningers looked back in a fight for a play-off ticket for a number of months, but since the 2-0 win at NEC, it is like a train at Ernest Faber’s team. The FC Groningen trainer saw his team lose only one time in the last eight games and that was when FC Groningen went to visit the ADO The Hague 4-3. Last weekend, Groningers won 5-3 with FC Twente in Grolsch Veste and FC Groningen striker Oussama Idrissi was the celebrated man with two beautiful goals. The Groningen won completely in Enschede and because Heerenveen and Heracles Almelo lost the Groningeners rose from the tenth to the eighth position.
A team that managed to win only two games this season than clubs like NEC, Sparta and PEC Zwolle can apparently place in the Netherlands for the playoffs for European football. FC Groningen, of course, is lucky that FC Twente could not qualify and Vitesse managed to win the cup three weeks ago, otherwise the Groningers would never have participated in the playoffs like Heerenveen. Faber showed this week that the play-offs feel like a bonus for this FC Groningen. “It has been a heavy season. It’s nice that we have been able to get the bonus at the last moment, “Faber said, with FC Groningen, he will do everything possible to win those play-offs. “We must be drunk now and everyone is doing good play the play-offs in”
FC Groningen has had the advantage of having this season regularly found the net. The Groningers scored 55 goals in the league and only Feyenoord, PSV, Ajax and AZ scored more goals than the Groningers. Of course, Mimoun Mahi and Bryan Linssen have been very important at Groningers goal-making – Moroccans and Dutchmen scored 27 times together, and especially the last games were doing well. By the way, it is not yet known whether Mahi can also take action against AZ today. The 23-year-old Mahi hit FC Twente and suffered from his calf.
Probable setup FC Groningen
Padt; Hiariej, Reijnen, Memišević, Davidson; Drost, Jensen, Idrissi, Bacuna; Linssen, Mahi.
AZ Alkmaar:
At AZ, they already knew for a couple of weeks that the play-off ticket was in place and they could focus on the cup finale and possibly shape those play-offs. The Alkmaarers lost the cup final against Vitesse three weeks ago in De Kuip by two goals by Ricky van Wolfswinkel and John van den Brom’s team had to focus on the playoffs. In the run-up to those play-offs, the Alkmaarders did not know proper preparation; Two weeks ago, NEC lost 2-1 and last weekend, AZ went down to FC Utrecht (2-3). The Domestic People did not play with their strongest team in the AFAS Stadium, but had no problem with the Alkmaarders. However, AZ had to play for ten hours with ten men, as Jonas Svensson was sent straight away from the field. This card was deposited on Monday and the Noor is present at the Noordlease Stadium today.
The defeat of the past few weeks did not affect the play-off ticket from AZ, but they did not make any sense of trust either. The Alkmaarders only managed to win two of their last eight games, but Van den Brom believes that the results in the league should not affect the play-offs. “Everyone writes us down because they think other teams are better in shape. But we would like to prove it to the contrary and it all starts again “, so that Van den Brom knew in advance of today’s match.
Earlier this season, the Alkmaarders went on a visit to FC Groningen (2-0) and at home the match ended in 0-0. In addition, AZ was able to win only one of the last six games in Groningen, but Van den Brom has confidence in a good result today: “We almost always score out games. There is a chance today for a good result. “The AZ trainer can not use Rens van Eijden at FC Groningen.
Probable setup AZ Alkmaar
Curl; Svensson, Vlaar, Wuytens, Haps; Luckassen, Seuntjes, Rienstra; Jahanbakhsh, Weghorst, Tankovic.
Groningen vs AZ Alkmaar head to head
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