Cambuur vs AZ Alkmaar - prediction, team news, lineups

SC Cambuur big AZ Alkmaar astatine the Kooi Stadion successful Leeuwarden connected Sunday connected lucifer time 9 of the Eredivisie.

AZ question northbound sitting 3rd connected 19 points successful the Eredivisie table aft a 2-0 decision astatine Feyenoord past weekend, portion promoted Cambuur get connected the backmost of a 1-0 triumph astatine PEC Zwolle that stretched their unbeaten tally to 4 league matches.

Match preview

Johan Plat's Yellow-Blues person climbed distant from the bottommost of the array since a unsmooth opening month, successful which they shipped 5 goals astatine Feyenoord and 4 much astatine location to Twente.

A 3-0 triumph implicit NEC Nijmegen connected September 12 remains Cambuur's champion effect of the season, with Rafik El Arguioui and Ilyes Hamache some among the scorers that afternoon.

Draws astatine Telstar and distant to ADO Den Haag either broadside of that triumph kept Cambuur's revival connected way without yet lifting them wide of the bottommost six.

The triumph astatine PEC Zwolle connected Sunday was lone the 2nd clip this play Cambuur person kept a cleanable expanse successful the league.

El Arguioui and Hamache person been Plat's astir reliable attacking outlet this season, adjacent arsenic Cambuur's antiaircraft grounds remains 1 of the division's shakiest.

Cambuur sat 14th with 5 points from 7 matches earlier the planetary break, and triumph astatine Zwolle has since moved them to 8 points from 8 games.

Leeroy Echteld's AZ suffered a uncommon setback aft a near-perfect opening 2 months, going down 2-0 astatine Feyenoord connected Saturday for their archetypal Eredivisie decision of the season.

Wins implicit ADO Den Haag, Fortuna Sittard, Go Ahead Eagles, Heerenveen and Telstar, positive a 4-1 occurrence astatine Utrecht, had carried AZ to the apical of the array heading into that travel to De Kuip.

A 1-1 gully with Willem II connected September 11 remains AZ's lone different dropped points of the campaign, underlining the consistency Echteld has built since replacing Maarten Martens successful January.

AZ beryllium 3rd connected 19 points aft matchday eight, 1 constituent down leaders Feyenoord and level with second-placed PSV Eindhoven.

Mexx Meerdink and Ro-Zangelo Daal person led the scoring this season, giving Echteld attacking options adjacent erstwhile the sojourn to Feyenoord yielded small extremity product.

Echteld, who delivered the KNVB Cup wrong months of taking implicit successful January, has mislaid conscionable erstwhile successful the league since and volition expect a absorption distant astatine a Cambuur broadside inactive uncovering its feet successful the apical flight.

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Team News

Jamal Amofa has been ruled retired for the remainder of the play with a cruciate ligament injury, with Plat confirming this week that the defender volition not diagnostic again this term.

Wout Asselman remains unavailable, portion Daan Visser is continuing his betterment from cruciate ligament country and is expected to instrumentality to the squad successful the coming weeks.

Nicolas Binder has shaken disconnected the insignificant contented that kept him among the substitutes astatine PEC Zwolle, and his 83rd-minute victor there, his 2nd extremity of the season, puts him firmly successful contention for a callback to the starting lineup.

For the visitors, Echteld has nary caller wounded concerns since the decision astatine Feyenoord, with the radical that bushed Telstar and mislaid astatine De Kuip again disposable for selection.

Stije Resink remains the club's longest-term absentee, with the midfielder inactive recovering from a torn cruciate ligament, not expected backmost until astir the crook of the year.

Jizz Hornkamp (ankle) and Kees Smit, who picked up a groin wounded connected planetary work with the Netherlands Under-21s, are besides sidelined, leaving Echteld with 4 elder players unavailable for the travel to Leeuwarden.

Denso Kasius has returned to afloat fittingness and made a substitute quality successful the Europa League triumph implicit Hapoel Be'er Sheva connected Thursday, giving Echteld different enactment astatine full-back.

With a congested October and November docket mixing Eredivisie and Europa League fixtures, immoderate squad rotation from the broadside that started astatine Feyenoord remains possible.

Cambuur imaginable starting lineup:

Jansen; Costarelli, Van Duijl, Baouf, Bouah; Souren, Apkakou; Kvam, El Arguioui, Hamache; Binder

AZ Alkmaar imaginable starting lineup:

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

We say: Cambuur 1-2 AZ Alkmaar

AZ should person capable attacking prime to extremity Cambuur's three-match unbeaten run, with Meerdink and Daal offering a cutting borderline that the location defence has struggled to incorporate each season.

Cambuur person lone failed to people successful 1 of their 8 league matches and pushed PEC Zwolle to a tense decorativeness lone a week ago, truthful Plat's broadside are improbable to spell down without a combat successful beforehand of their ain supporters.

AZ's distant signifier has been reliable alternatively than spectacular this season, and a constrictive triumph that leaves Cambuur to rue missed chances looks the astir apt result astatine the Kooi Stadion.

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