Nijmegen vs Waalwijk Prediction & Match Preview

Steffen Schmidt - August 24, 2023

Nijmegen vs Waalwijk
Dutch Eredivisie
Date: 26 August 2023, Saturday
Kick-off at 17:45 UK / 18:45 CET
Venue: Goffertstadion (Nijmegen).

Nijmegen and Waalwijk will search for their maiden points on Saturday afternoon when they raise the curtain on Gameweek No 3 of the 2023/24 Eredivisie campaign.

The two teams have allowed six goals each in the inaugural two rounds of the season, showing an extreme lack of meticulousness in their respective back lines along the way.

NEC fell 3-4 to Excelsior on the opening day before allowing two second-half goals in the last weekend’s loss to Heracles in Almelo.

What both outfits have in common is the fact they lose rhythm and physicality in the second halves of the matches at the start of the season.

Both Nijmegen and Waalwijk allowed second-half comebacks against their respective counterparts in the previous round.

This makes “Half with most goals” an exciting market here as the bookmakers offer attractive 3.10 odds for it to be the first half on Saturday.

Since we expect both outfits to lose rhythm in the final 30 minutes of the affair, we would not be surprised to see the second half even going scoreless here.

As of Waalwijk, they have suffered two separate 1-3 losses to Heerenveen and AZ Alkmaar in the maiden two rounds of the season.

If we count the preseason friendlies, the visitors are currently on a thread of five straight defeats this summer. They’ve notched just two goals in the process.

Nijmegen vs Waalwijk Head-to-head

• Nijmegen own a much better record in this matchup with 29 wins, 9 draws, and 13 defeats in the last 51 games against Waalwijk.
• Nijmegen have been particularly dominant in the history of the clashes at their Gofferstadion where the hosts won 18, drew 6, and lost only 4 of the previous 28 outings against RKC.
• Both teams scored in each of the previous five head to head affairs between these sides.

Nijmegen vs Waalwijk Prediction

As mentioned above, we are very much interested in the “Half with most goals” market as we see big value in backing it to be the first half at the sky-high 3.10 odds.

Knowing how easy to break down these two outfits have been in the opening two games of the season and knowing that we’ve seen goals at both ends in each of their previous five H2H matches, the Over 2.5 goals FT & Both Teams To Score bet seems like an attractive option at the 1.83 odds.

Nijmegen vs Waalwijk Betting Tips

• Half with most goals: First half @ 3.10 (21/10)

• Over 2.5 goals FT & Both Teams To Score @ 1.83 (5/6) odd.

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