Feyenoord welcome the visitors Utrecht in the Dutch KNVB Beker – 1/8 Finals. The match will be held on Thursday, December 20th, at the De Kuip (Rotterdam).
Feyenoord are currently 3rd in the league table; in the last round, they suffered a 0:2 defeat to the 10th Fortuna. The team are quite leaking overall – they missed 18 goals in 16 matches. They passed to the 1/16 Finals winning the Gemert playing on the outskirts of the Dutch football – in one of the lower leagues.
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As for the visiting Utrecht, they had to compete with the Eerste Divisie middle-class team Maastricht in the 1/32 Finals; still, going by the 2:0 scoreline (home win), they did not struggle much. In the coming match on Thursday, Feyenoord are considered clear favorite, bookmakers offer the over 6 odds on the guests’ win, but we are not sure in the hosts’ victory at all. As soon as Utrecht were appointed a qualified head coach Dick Advocaat, their form has shown upward improvement. Utrecht have played 14 matches under the stewardship of the new manager, registering 9 wins and only 3 losses. They’ve scored in all but one match – the one being against the Feyenoord; this, however, was just the 2nd game under the guidance of Advocaat who did not have enough time to settle yet. They team lost 1:0 that day. Afterwards, only Vitesse managed to beat Utrecht. Of 13 latest rounds, the guests have scored over 1 goal 9 times.
Our hopes are with Utrecht on Thursday, but we can’t possibly make any prediction as far as the winner are concerned. The guests will score anyways, as the attacking play has been dictated by the coach from the very beginning. Feyenoord normally miss in every round and from every opponent. They allowed in 4 of 5 latest matches. They also missed from Utrecht in 7 of 10 last encounters. As we see, the present Utrecht do not stop at the single goal scored, and they are not expected to stop at this in the coming clash as well.
Prediction for the match: Utrecht to score over 1.0 goals.
