AZ Alkmaar vs Telstar - prediction, team news, lineups

Having precocious surrendered apical spot successful the Eredivisie table, AZ Alkmaar volition look to instrumentality to winning ways erstwhile they big Telstar astatine the AFAS Stadion connected Sunday.

The hosts are 1 of 3 sides yet to beryllium beaten aft six matchdays, a stark opposition to their visitors, who person managed conscionable 1 triumph truthful far.

Match preview

After opening the play with six consecutive wins successful each competitions, AZ person deed their archetypal bump successful the road, being held to a goalless gully by Willem II connected September 11 earlier a 1-0 decision to Sunderland successful their Europa League opener 5 days later.

Leeroy Echteld’s men are presently down defending champions PSV Eindhoven connected extremity quality astatine the acme of the standings but could extremity Sunday’s crippled backmost connected apical with PSV successful enactment against FC Twente simultaneously.

De Kaasboeren bushed Telstar location and away, arsenic good arsenic successful the KNVB Beker semi-finals past season, making it 5 wins from 5 competitory meetings since 2015, with their lone decision successful that play coming successful a affable 7 years ago.

Unsurprisingly, AZ are beardown favourites to get backmost to winning ways this weekend, having not suffered consecutive defeats since a three-game losing tally successful November 2025 towards the extremity of Maarten Martens's tenure.

Prior to their caller loss, the Cheese Farmers had opened the scoring successful 7 consecutive matches, and volition purpose for a repetition against a Telstar broadside who person conceded archetypal successful 4 of their past 5 games and successful six of the past 7 meetings betwixt the teams.

Telstar’s triumph implicit NEC Nijmegen connected matchday one, which marked their 3rd consecutive triumph dating backmost to past season, proved to beryllium thing of a mendacious dawn, arsenic they person collected conscionable 2 points from the pursuing 5 fixtures.

A goalless gully with Heerenveen past clip retired offered much positives than negatives for Henk Brugge’s side, who failed to make a clear-cut accidental but volition beryllium pleased to person secured a invaluable point, leaving them conscionable extracurricular the relegation zone.

Only Heerenveen person conceded less goals than De Witte Leeuwen’s 11 among teams extracurricular the apical six, highlighting their antiaircraft resilience, acknowledgment successful nary tiny portion to the heroics of Ronald Koeman Jr successful goal.

However, Telstar’s attacking output remains a concern, with a league-low 5 goals scored truthful acold and 3 blanks successful their past 4 matches. Their lone goals successful that tally came successful a 2-2 gully with Cambuur, some via penalties.

Sunday’s visitors person not gone six matches without a triumph since the crook of the year, but they volition request to emergence to the juncture to debar matching that statistic by the extremity of their travel to Alkmaar.

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Team News

Denso Kasius (groin) and Stije Resink (knee) person yet to diagnostic for AZ Alkmaar this season, and some are sidelined for Sunday’s game.

However, Kees Smit is backmost successful contention for the hosts aft returning from a two-game wounded lack successful Wednesday’s decision to Sunderland.

Entrusted with a much salient relation since Troy Parrott’s departure, Mexx Meerdink has 4 nonstop extremity contributions successful six league matches truthful far, making him 1 to support an oculus on.

Sem Valk has started each 4 matches for Telstar since joining from Dordrecht successful the summertime and is expected to clasp his spot this weekend.

Abedelnour Soualhia is improbable to feature, having joined the visitors connected indebtedness from AZ, which could unfastened the doorway for Prince Aning to travel into the side.

AZ Alkmaar imaginable starting lineup:

De Busser; Dijkstra, Goes, Schouten, Chavez; Clasie, Koopmeiners; Stengs, Kwakman, Daal; Meerdink

Telstar imaginable starting lineup:

Koeman Jr; Aning, Peersman, Valk; Hardeveld, Rossen, Owusu, Alders; Brouwer, Mendes; Thorisson

We say: AZ Alkmaar 3-0 Telstar

Telstar’s attacking struggles, up against a broadside averaging astir 3 league goals per game, marque it hard to spot Sunday’s lucifer ending successful thing different than a location win.

We are backing AZ Alkmaar to grounds a comfy triumph erstwhile each is said and done.

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