Ajax – Roda : Preview & Prediction
Ajax and Roda meet at the Amsterdam ArenA in a match of the 13th round of the Eredivisie. At this stage, the history of direct confrontations is favorable to the home team, which has 2 wins and 2 draws in the last 4 games. However, the last time they met in this stadium was on 08-13-2016, in a game for the Eredivisie that ended in a draw for (2-2). The goals of the match were scored by K. Dolberg (8 ‘and 44’) for Ajax and A. Auassar (17 ‘) and T. Van Hyfte (90’) for Roda. Although this is a game between 2nd and 18th of the overall ranking, it is actually a game between the 7th place in home games and the 15th as a visitor.
After 8 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, the home team is in 2nd place, having won 25 points. In the last match, he won NAC Breda away by (0-8), after having lost at home in a game against Utrecht by (1-2). This is a team that normally achieves more positive results as a visitor than at home, having won 16 points away, scoring 23 goals and suffering 5 and 9 points in their stadium with 12 goals scored and 5 conceded. In the last game he played for the Friendly, he beat Borussia Mönchengladbach at home (2-1). In the last five home games for the championship, Ajax have recorded 3 wins and 2 losses, having won 9 points out of 15. His attack has scored regularly as he has scored at least one goal in each of the last 10 games in this competition. In his home games there is a tendency towards goals, since 38 of his last 56 games finished with More of 2.5 goals. The team did not usually find it difficult to open the scoring chart: they managed to score the first goal in 9 of the last 12 matches for the Eredivisie, 9 of them reached the interval in the lead in 6 and managed to maintain the advantage until the end of the 90 ‘in 7.
The team is in second place on the national league table with 25 points drawn in twelve matches played, so far they have had eight wins, one draw and three defeats. They scored thirty-five goals, conceded ten goals and have a positive balance of twenty-five goals.
Always among the best teams in the championship, they are in the vice-leader like last season, but in the previous one it played point to point with the leader by the conquest of the title and in that it sees its adversary with eight points of advantage in the table. Therefore, it can not be deconcentrated and allow that difference to increase more. His championship is very good, he has the second best attack of the championship and the best defense of the competition, but he lost points against intermediate teams and that made him fall to second place. Acting at home is very strong and wins most of his clashes, however he has the characteristic of conceding goals in many of them.
His goal is always to win the title and even with a big difference of points, he still believes that during the competition he can reach the PSV team and surpass them, and thus take the lead of the championship. However, they can not lose more points against intermediate teams, and victory is always an obligation. Winning this game will keep the vice leader at the end of the round, if they tie or lose, they can lose a position on the table and fall to the fourth place. His last match was a friendly at home against the team of Borussia Monchengladbach of Germany and won the game by the score of 2-1. Before that, for the national championship faced away from home the team of Breda and won the game by the score of 0-8.
After 2 wins, 1 draw and 9 losses, the visiting team is in 18th place, having won 7 points. In the last match, they lost with AZ Alkmaar at home (0-1), after their previous match had lost out in a game against Excelsior (1-0). This is a team little affected by the house factor, that is, it achieves practically the same points at home and away, with 4 goals scored and 8 goals conceded at home, against 5 goals scored and 15 conceded. In the championship, the Roda won 3 points in 21 possible, after 1 victory and 6 losses in the last 7 games that he played as a visitor. The team allowed their opponents goals in 9 of the last 10 games for this competition, so they have not been very strong defensively. In 12 games in this competition, he suffered the first goal 8 times and never managed to turn the score.
The team is in the eighteenth (last) standings on the national league table with 7 points drawn in 12 games played, so far they have had two wins, a draw and nine defeats. They scored nine goals, conceded twenty-three goals and have the negative balance of fourteen goals.
Ajax – Roda : Betting Tips
Ajax – Win Odds: 1.15
Both teams to score / NO – Odds: 1.70
Over 4.5 Goals – Odds: 1.70
