📊 Form Guide

FC Zwolle

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FC Zwolle, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 2-1 Eredivisie success against SC Heerenveen.

In that game, FC Zwolle managed 43% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 4 on target. For FC Zwolle, goals were scored by Thijs Oosting (28') and Shola Shoretire (40'). Heerenveen got 19 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Ringo Meerveld (36') was the scorer for SC Heerenveen.

It has been seldom in recent times that FC Zwolle have shown defensive steel. In fact, FC Zwolle have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 14 goals along the way.

AZ

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Since being beaten in their last game against FC Twente in Eredivisie action, AZ will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, AZ had 49% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 1 on target. On the other side, FC Twente got 7 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Daan Rots (75') scored for FC Twente.

Maarten Martens's AZ have converted a total of 6 times throughout their most recent six matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during the equivalent period equals 12.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head-to-head meetings going back to 10/04/2022 tells us that FC Zwolle have won 1 of these games and AZ 3, with the number of drawn matches being 2.

An aggregate of 19 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 7 for Blauwvingers and 12 coming from AZ. The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The previous league fixture featuring the two was Eredivisie match day 3 on 24/09/2025 which ended up with the score at AZ 2-2 FC Zwolle.

That day, AZ had 65% possession and 28 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. The goalscorers were Kees Smit (38') and Patati (45').

For their opponents, FC Zwolle got 8 shots at goal with 4 on target. Koen Kostons (44', 47') scored.

The referee was Rob Dieperink.

ℹ️ Team News: AZ

AZ manager Maarten Martens has not got a full squad to pick from. Mexx Meerdink (Groin injury), Rome Jayden Owusu-Oduro (unknown injury) and Seiya Maikuma (Knee injury) are those who can’t be considered.

✨ Prediction

In our view, FC Zwolle might need a bit of good fortune to find the net against this AZ side who we reckon will score & stay on top.

We’ve gone for a good tussle with a 0-1 winning margin for AZ when all is said and done.

A close call.

Victor Martins, 18:01 03/12/2025