Thursday at 08:05 p.m., Dundalk gets visit from Alkmaar in a duel in the Round # 5 Europa League groups.
Dundalk ended his accounts in domestic competitions, managing to win a championship title again, but earlier this month, lost Irish Cup final. Lucky arrived in the Europa League, Dundalk apparently is willing to overcome their outsider status and is targeting European qualification in the spring. Ranked second with 4 points, Ireland champion made two good games against rival to second place, but had the misfortune to play against Zenit in the previous two games and losing them both.
On the other side, Alkmaar is in full championship, managed to tick fifth consecutive match without defeat in all competitions after he drew with Roda 1-1. However, in Group D of the Europa League is not doing as well, aflndu on last place with 2 points and goal difference -6, the only band that has managed to establish itself in four stages elapsed. In the last round has evolved everything away, managed to return from Israel with a point after 0-0 draw, obtained in front of the Maccabi Tel Aviv.
The tour was 1-1 with Dundalk who managed the equalizer in the last minute, but Alkmaar remains an unknown in this group. Accustomed to these European competitions, AZ fails to find the way to victory, but now I think we have a good chance to get a good result because their opponents have played his last official match after almost three weeks since ended competitions in Ireland. Altogether, it is possible to see the new goals as Alkmaar if lost, could be mathematically eliminated from the race for the European spring.
Forecasts Dundalk – Alkmaar: over 2.5 goals, share 1.95
