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Zwolle vs Utrecht Prediction & Betting tips
PEC Zwolle and FC Utrecht have the honor to open the second half of the Eredivisie on Friday evening. The home team has good intentions to do better in the coming months than in the first half of the competition.
PEC Zwolle:
PEC Zwolle was one of the teams for which the winter break actually came. The club from Zwolle had ambitions prior to the season to participate in the top half of the rankings. In practice, little came of that. Although PEC has a nice selection, the reality is that the team of coach John Stegeman will have to fight against relegation. With sixteen points from eighteen games, PEC is just above the relegation line. No fewer than twelve league defeats were suffered before the winter break.
One of the causes of the poor performance was the many injuries on the Zwolle side. Stegeman was often forced to make many changes to the basic team. But in addition to the forced mutations, the trainer changed a lot in his team. The winter break was used to study a new system. It is the intentions that the blue and whites take on a 5-3-2 formation against Utrecht. This was practiced during the training camp in Spain.
FC Utrecht:
FC Utrecht delivered a reasonable first half of the season. After eighteen games, the Domsted players are the number seven in the ranking, with 29 points achieved. In the first months of the season the game of the team of John van den Brom was usually changeable, but just before the winter break there was more steadiness in the team. The last game before the end of the year, at home against Feyenoord, played Utrecht well, only the team was empty-handed after ninety minutes (1-2).
Just like his colleague Stegeman, Van den Brom had to deal with many injury cases last fall. The selection of Utrecht, especially for premier league concepts, is particularly wide, so that the absences could be accommodated reasonably. Adrian Dalmau has expectations for the second half of the season. The Spaniard didn’t get much into action before the winter break due to injuries, but now seems ready to contribute. A week ago, Utrecht won a friendly match against Bayer Leverkusen (4-3), although it may be treacherous to pull out too big a deal. Goalkeeper Maarten Paes cannot be deployed for the time being. The club management with Jeroen Zoet a surprising replacement. The international is rented from PSV for six months.
Zwolle vs Utrecht head to head matches
11.08.19 ERE Utrecht Zwolle 3 : 1
03.02.19 ERE Zwolle Utrecht 4 : 3
19.08.18 ERE Utrecht Zwolle 2 : 0
10.02.18 ERE Utrecht Zwolle 2 : 1
01.12.17 ERE Zwolle Utrecht 1 : 1