AZ Alkmaar vs Utrecht. Prediction for the Netherlands Premier League match (January 27, 2021)

AZ finished the last season of the Netherlands championship with silver medals. In the current campaign, the team from Alkmaar is performing less successfully. At the moment, the team is located outside the Top-3 (fourth place), from which it is three points behind.

In 2021, Pascal Jansen's wards scored 10 out of 12 possible points. After the starting draw in the match against "Zwolle", the team won three victories in a row, beating such rivals as PSV (3:1), Den Haag (2:1) and Feyenoord in the last round (3:2). On January 20, AZ stopped playing in the cup competition, losing at home to "Ajax" (0:1).

"Utrecht" is approaching the play-off zone of the Major League standings. The team won the last two league matches, beating at home "Heracles" (2:0) and "Sparta" (1:0).

So Rene Hake's guys interrupted the streak without victories, which lasted three rounds in a row. During this period, "Utrecht" shared points with the upcoming rival AZ and "Groningen'" (2:2), and also lost to "Vitesse" (0:1) away.