While the regular season in the Dutch Eredivisie has already ended almost two weeks, the play-offs are still about participating in the Europa League. Four teams could still hope for a European Cup ticket. At the GelreDome, the final duel between Vitesse Arnhem and FC Utrecht will take place on Tuesday evening. Arnheim finished the regular season in fifth place and prevailed in the first playoff round against Groningen. Utrecht took sixth place after 34 league games and eliminated Almelo in round one.
Last Friday, Utrecht and Arnhem played the first leg in the Europa League playoff final. Football Club Utrecht took the lead in the 18th minute. The guests of Vitesse were able to equalize in the 31st minute to the final score of 1: 1. Thus Arnheim goes with the draw from the away first leg with a certain advantage in the second duel. The bookmakers see it that way and predict Vitesse Arnheim vs. the match before the match. Utrecht on the basis of their quotas with a success of the home side. The betting base comes in their preliminary report to the same result and sets in the game Vitesse Arnheim. Utrecht their tip on “Victory Vitesse Arnhem”.
Vitesse Arnhem:
Already in the preseason Vitesse Arnheim reached over the Europa League playoffs the European Cup. In the season 2017/18 Arnhem had become sixth in the table and had with four wins against ADO Den Haag and FC Utrecht sovereign the ticket for the international business solved. In the Europa League Vitesse missed but then against FC Basel the group stage. In the season before the club had qualified as a cup winner for the first time for the Europa League group stage, but ended up there in a group with Lazio, Nice and Zulte Waregem only in last place. After the majority owners and coaches in recent years at Arnhem often changed, hopes the club now with the former national coach of Sbornaja Leonid Slutski and the native of Odessa Ukrainian Valery Oyf as owner on a little more continuity. In this Eredivisie season, it was already quite good for the team of coach Slutski. With 53 points and fifth place, the Black and Yellow achieved the best result since the 2014/15 season.
Especially in front of their own fans, the “Vitas” were very strong. In 17 home games, there was only one defeat, against champions Ajax. Vitesse has been unbeaten for 16 home games. From this great home record you can before the game Vitesse Arnheim vs.. Utrecht certainly derive a prediction on a home win. Away, the men of coach Slutski but did much harder. Here Arnhem managed with 17 points and only four wins from 17 games only to the eleventh place on the away table. Matching this statistics Vitesse lost in the first European League Playoff round with 1: 2 in Groningen. With a 3-1 victory in the second leg, the black and yellow but still moved into the final and meet there as in the previous year on Utrecht. Vitesse has already been four times in the play-offs for the Europa League, reaching the international business three times (2012, 2015 and 2018).
One of the most important players of the current season is the young Norwegian Martin Ödegaard, who is still on loan from Real Madrid until the end of the season. It is rumored that Bayer Leverkusen have a great deal of interest in Ödegaard, who scored eight goals with three goals and five assists in his team’s most recent four home games. Best striker of the regular season was Bryan Linssen with twelve goals this season. Due to injury, the hosts have to make do without Musonda and Gong on Tuesday. The use of Jake Clarke-Salter is still uncertain.
Utrecht:
Since September 2018, Utrecht has been trained by former bond coach Dick Advocaat. Predecessor Jean-Paul de Jong had been dismissed after the fifth matchday, when the club was only 14th with five points. Under Advocaat the FCU climbed from the relegation zone to sixth place in the final ranking. For the coach, the game on Tuesday night against Arnhem but the last game in the white-blue-red. Advocaat will be replaced next season by John van den Brom, who coached Alkmaar this season. In the regular season 2018/19, the FC brought 32 of his 53 points at home. There were only three defeats in 17 games. In foreign parts of the club with 21 counters occupied the seventh place in the away table with six wins and eight defeats.
On the first day of the EL playoffs Utrecht won sovereign (2: 0, 3: 0) against Almelo. With the victory at Heracles, the team of Coach Advocaat could end a series of three away games in a row again. Now it is again as in the preseason in the final against Arnhem for the Europa League ticket. The FCU has been in the Dutch EL playoffs six times and entered the European Cup three times (2010, 2013 and 2017). This year’s final is the fourth EL playoff final in a row for the FC. Utrecht does not have to make do without Leon Guwara, Joris van Overeem, Othman Boussaid, Timo Letschert and Simon Makienok. Riechedly Bazoer, Jean-Christophe Bahebeck and David Jensen are still questionable.
PREDICTION: Vitesse to win @ 2,00
