RKC Waalwijk vs Roda JC - prediction, team news, lineups

RKC Waalwijk instrumentality to the Mandemakers Stadion for the decisive 2nd limb of their Eredivisie promotion play-offs first-round necktie connected Friday, with the contention finely poised pursuing Tuesday’s 1-1 gully distant astatine Roda JC Kerkrade.

The effect astatine the Parkstad Limburg Stadion leaves the necktie wide open, with neither broadside holding a wide vantage heading into Friday’s decisive clash.

Match preview

RKC Waalwijk secured their spot successful the Keuken Kampioen Divisie play-offs with a 4-1 triumph implicit Jong PSV, confirming a sixth-place decorativeness successful the standings.

A tally of 3 wins, 1 gully and 2 defeats successful their last six league matches proved capable to gain them a changeable astatine returning to the Eredivisie adjacent season, with that travel continuing connected Tuesday against Roda JC Kerkrade.

The Yellow-Blues ended the regular run successful sixth place, signaling 16 wins, 10 draws and 12 defeats crossed 38 matches.

Sander Duits’s broadside were near heartbroken astatine the Parkstad Limburg Stadion connected Tuesday evening aft conceding a last-minute equaliser to contradict them victory.

The visitors appeared acceptable for an awesome distant triumph aft Denilho Cleonise opened the scoring successful the 51st minute, but Tomas Kalinauskas struck successful the 95th infinitesimal to level the lucifer for Roda, ensuring the necktie volition present beryllium decided successful Waalwijk connected Friday evening.

Results betwixt the 2 sides person been mixed, with Waalwijk signaling 2 victories successful their past six meetings—a tally that besides includes a gully and 2 defeats—but a triumph connected Friday would spot them beforehand to the adjacent circular of the play-offs.

Roda finished the regular play successful eighth place, 2 positions down Waalwijk, aft suffering a final-day decision to Jong AZ past weekend, but inactive managed to unafraid a spot successful the play-offs.

The past six matches of the run highlighted Roda’s inconsistency, arsenic they recorded 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats, though Kevin Van Dessel’s broadside had already confirmed their spot successful the Keuken Kampioen play-offs pursuing FC Den Bosch’s location gully against Jong FC Utrecht connected April 20.

For their efforts, Van Dessel’s squad were paired with Waalwijk, and they kept their promotion hopes live by snatching a melodramatic last-minute equaliser successful their astir caller encounter.

Cleonise had fixed RKC Waalwijk the pb six minutes into the 2nd half, but Kalinauskas struck successful the 95th infinitesimal to level the people for Roda and acceptable up an intriguing instrumentality limb connected Friday.

On a much affirmative note, Roda’s past sojourn to the Mandemakers Stadium ended successful a deserved 2-1 victory, with goals from Anthony van den Hurk and an 80th-minute victor from Mitchell Paulissen.

RKC Waalwijk Eredivisie Promotion Playoffs form: 

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Roda JC Eredivisie Promotion Playoffs form:

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Team News

There are nary caller wounded concerns reported pursuing the archetypal leg, meaning Duits is expected to sanction a akin lineup to the 1 that came wrong seconds of securing a important distant victory.

Denilho Cleonise remains a cardinal attacking outlet aft his extremity successful Kerkrade, portion the squad volition beryllium motivated by the disappointment of conceding a stoppage-time equaliser to Roda JC Kerkrade.

Roda are not expected to marque large changes to the broadside that showed resilience successful the archetypal leg, with Tomas Kalinauskas apt to clasp his spot aft his stoppage-time equaliser kept their promotion hopes alive.

The visitors volition besides gully assurance from their erstwhile travel to Waalwijk, wherever they claimed a 2-1 triumph acknowledgment to goals from Anthony van den Hurk and Mitchell Paulissen.

RKC Waalwijk imaginable starting lineup:

Van Osch; Castillo, Van Gelderen, Van Eijma, Held; Boetius, Postma, Cleonise, Fage; Kuster, Uneken

Roda JC imaginable starting lineup:

Treichel, Jansen, Van den Buijs, Tol, Kruiver; Nisbet, Beerten, Muller; Griffith, Breij, Van den Hurk

We say: RKC Waalwijk 2-1 Roda JC

RKC Waalwijk look good placed to borderline this finely balanced tie, with location vantage astatine the Mandemakers Stadion and their wide attacking menace apt to beryllium decisive if they support strength and instrumentality their chances much efficiently.

While Roda stay unsafe and susceptible of producing cardinal moments, their inconsistency could beryllium costly, and with Waalwijk expected to instrumentality a much proactive attack successful beforehand of their supporters, the hosts are backed to travel retired connected apical successful a choky contest.

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