Match Centre: AZ vs SC Heerenveen
Meerdink 3′Meerdink 21′Meerdink 45′Penetra 66′
Nicolaescu 74′
Player of the match Mexx Meerdink 9.3
GolVolt rating 5.2GolVolt rating
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Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
A semi-final, hat-trick for Meerdink.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 21′.The result was clear early — little to hold on for. Drama: 0.9 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Hat-trick for Meerdink, Meerdink scored the winner, Meerdink: rated 9.3.Someone played a match to remember. Heroes: 9.0 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% A semi-final. Stakes: 9.8 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% 5 goals.An average number of chances. Quality of play: 3.6 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 5.2more watchable than 52% of Eredivisie matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
5 goals3 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 3' Goal: Mexx Meerdinkassist: Mijnans1:0
- 18' Peer Koopmeinersyellow card
- 21' Goal: Mexx Meerdinkassist: Wolfe2:0
- 45' Goal: Mexx Meerdinkassist: Maikuma3:0
- Half-time · 3:0
- 46' SubstitutionDekker for Goes
- 61' 2 substitutionsKasius for MaikumaSadiq for Meerdink
- 66' Goal: Alexandre Penetraassist: Mijnans4:0
- 69' 3 substitutionsAli for HoplandNicolaescu for LukovicRallis for Trenskow
- 72' SubstitutionClasie for Smit
- 74' Goal: Ion Nicolaescuassist: Köhlert4:1
- 76' Mats Köhlertyellow card
- 77' SubstitutionBouw for Köhlert
- 79' SubstitutionParrott for van Bommel
- 83' SubstitutionKlaverboer for van der Hart
- 90' Oliver Braudeyellow card
- Full-time · 4:1
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
AZ
SC Heerenveen
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
AZ
- 12 Hobie Verhulst GK —
- 41 Jeroen Zoet GK —
- 22 Maxim Dekker DEF on
- 30 Denso Kasius DEF on
- 34 Mees de Wit DEF —
- 8 Jordy Clasie MID on
- 24 Lewis Schouten MID —
- 28 Zico Buurmeester MID —
- 9 Troy Parrott ATT on
- 11 Ibrahim Sadiq ATT on
- 23 Mayckel Lahdo ATT —
- 27 Ro-Zangelo Daal ATT —
SC Heerenveen
- 22 Bernt Klaverboer GK on
- 23 Jan Bekkema GK —
- 2 Denzel Hall DEF —
- 4 Sam Kersten DEF —
- 15 Hussein Ali DEF on
- 32 Robin Bouw DEF on
- 6 Amara Condé MID —
- 21 Espen van Ee MID —
- 7 Ché Nunnely ATT —
- 18 Ion Nicolaescu ATT on
- 26 Dimitris Rallis ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · AZ Mexx Meerdink
- 2. place · AZ Alexandre Penetra
- 3. place · SC Heerenveen Ion Nicolaescu
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