Feyenoord vs. AZ Alkmaar - prediction, team news, lineups

Feyenoord could extremity gameweek 8 astatine the apical of the Eredivisie table if they bushed league-leading AZ Alkmaar successful Saturday's mouthwatering tussle.

Unbeaten AZ entered the planetary interruption successful archetypal spot aft PSV Eindhoven surrendered a 2-1 pb successful a 3-2 decision astatine FC Twente, and the Cheese Farmers find themselves successful the driving spot up of a travel to De Kuip, wherever they are winless successful six visits.

Match preview

After a drawstring of frustrating stalemates astatine De Kuip, Giovanni van Bronckhorst yet secured his archetypal location triumph since returning to the Rotterdam outfit for a 2nd spell earlier the break, arsenic De Stadionclub produced a five-star show to annihilate FC Utrecht 5-0.

That occurrence was conscionable what the doc ordered for the erstwhile Netherlands international, whose squad had played retired a brace of 2-2 draws against Go Ahead Eagles and ADO Den Haag to commencement the season, arsenic they relied connected a 100% distant grounds to enactment adjacent to then-leaders PSV earlier Peter Bosz's broadside suffered a daze decision astatine Twente.

Having netted 5 successful a 5-2 occurrence astatine Cambuur, 3 successful a 3-1 triumph and 7 successful a 7-0 hammering of PEC Zwolle, it was gratifying to spot Van Bronckhorst's squad reproduce immoderate of their awesome distant signifier connected location soil.

The events preceding the three-week interruption frankincense permission Feyenoord conscionable 2 points down the broadside they big successful gameweek eight, with maximum points successful consecutive location games guaranteed to spot them extremity the circular atop the table.

That result volition beryllium expected by the Rotterdam club's supporters, particularly considering the precedent successful this fixture.

AZ person seldom enjoyed immoderate occurrence against Feyenoord, with the past 10 meetings seeing the Stadium Club grounds 7 wins and the Alkmaar broadside assertion conscionable 1 victory.

Trips to De Kuip person historically gone awry for De Kaasboeren, whose wins successful September 2019 and January 2021 ended a nine-match tally without occurrence successful Rotterdam, wherever 7 of those visits ended successful defeat.

Those back-to-back wins proved anomalous, arsenic 5 of their adjacent six visits successful each competitions went Feyenoord's way, earlier the Cheese Farmers halted that series by securing a 1-1 gully connected the penultimate matchday of the 2025-26 play successful May.

Hoping that their existent presumption arsenic league leaders astatine slightest gives them the aura of a broadside that belongs successful rubric contention, AZ caput to Rotterdam knowing that they volition stay astatine the acme by avoiding decision against the free-scoring hosts.

Whether they volition unafraid that constituent against a broadside they hatred facing, however, remains to beryllium seen.

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Team News

While Goncalo Borges is carrying a knock, Feyenoord are without the injured Bart Nieuwkoop (knee), Gijs Smal (ankle), Jakub Moder (knee), Thomas Beelen (broken leg), Tsuyoshi Watanabe (leg) and Jordan Bos (knee).

After a dilatory commencement to the season, Anis Hadj Moussa scored 5 goals successful 3 league appearances earlier the planetary break, and the Algeria planetary volition purpose to prime up wherever helium near disconnected earlier the hiatus.

Aside from Moussa, the location broadside person a cadre of match-winners, not slightest freshly minted Dutch planetary Gjivai Zechiel — who has scored 5 goals and provided 4 assists successful the Eredivisie this word — portion Luciano Valente and summertime accomplishment Nacho Ferri person demonstrated their game-deciding qualities by scoring 4 league goals apiece.

AZ's Ro-Zangelo Daal matches Valente and Ferri with 4 goals, portion Mexx Meerdink has netted 3 times for the league leaders aft 7 rounds.

Although Peer Koopmeiners seldom scores oregon assists, the midfielder tin power a crippled with his all-action qualities successful and retired of possession; helium has completed 351 passes successful the absorption fractional and successfully recovered a teammate with 232 passes into the last third, and helium has recovered possession 40 times.

Stije Resink is AZ's lone reported absentee, with the midfielder sidelined by a genu wounded that is apt to support him retired until November oregon December.

Feyenoord imaginable starting lineup:

Ernst; Read, Marmol, St Juste, Lopez; Zechiel, Vanhoutte, Targhalline; Hadj Moussa, Ferri, Valente

AZ Alkmaar imaginable starting lineup:

De Busser; Dijkstra, Goes, Schouten, Chavez; Kwakman, Koopmeiners; Oufkir, Byskov, Daal; Meerdink

We say: Feyenoord 3-1 AZ Alkmaar

AZ's presumption astatine the acme suggests that Feyenoord volition not person everything their ain way, but the Rotterdam giants' formidable attacking options should yet overwhelm the visitors, who person not mislaid successful 13 league matches.

With Van Bronckhorst's men rediscovering their bushed astatine De Kuip and dominating this fixture successful caller years, we expect the hosts to unafraid a connection victory.

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