High-flying Feyenoord play host to PEC Zwolle at De Kuip on Sunday aiming to make it six consecutive wins across all competitions.
Meanwhile, this weekend's visitors are looking to avoid a third straight defeat and a seventh away from home this term.
Match preview
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Feyenoord kept the juggernaut rolling with a narrow 1-0 victory over AZ Alkmaar on November 7.
The game was set to end with honours even as the scores remained level heading into second-half stoppage time in which Cyriel Dessers popped up with a late winner.
As a result, Arne Slot's men are third in the Eredivisie, two points behind the duo of Ajax and PSV Eindhoven having played a game less.
De Stadionclub's next assignment sees them go up against a side who they have beaten in each of the last four meetings, keeping three clean sheets in that time.
With a trip to the Czech Republic for their meeting with Slavia Prague to follow, Sunday's hosts will be keen to head into their penultimate Conference League group-stage clash on a high.
PEC Zwolle suffered a 10th league defeat of the season two Saturdays ago when they were beaten 2-1 by Cambuur at the Mac3Park Stadion.
Art Langeler's found themselves down by two early in the second half courtesy of goals from Mees Hoedemakers and Robin Maulun before pulling one back through Dean Huiberts.
The Blauwvingers are rock-bottom in the league table at the moment, seven points away from safety and in need of a lift.
Sunday's visitors are the only side in the entire division yet to record a point away from home and are faced with the stern test of squaring up against one of two remaining teams yet to taste defeat on home turf.
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Team News
Zwolle's Pelle Clement is currently sidelined with an ankle problem and will not participate in this weekend's contest.
Sai Van Wermeskerken has not featured since February due to a knee injury, and the Japanese defender is also unavailable for the visitors.
Luis Sinisterra grabbed the winning goal in the most recent edition of this fixture, and the 22-year-old will be looking to come up trumps once again.
Cyriel Dessers has scored three goals in his last 61 minutes of action for the home side and heads into Sunday's game in red-hot form.
Feyenoord possible starting lineup:
Bijlow; Malacia, Senesi, Trauner, Pedersen; Kokcu, Til, Aursnes; Toornstra, Sinisterra, Linssen
PEC Zwolle possible starting lineup:
Lamprou; Pabai, Van Polen, Kersten, Nakayama; Saymak, Strieder, Huiberts; Kastaneer, Tedic, Redan
We say: Feyenoord 4-0 PEC Zwolle
The sides are in contrasting forms heading into this one and the home side will be expected to secure all three points. We fancy them to get the job done, scoring plenty of goals en route.
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Data Analysis
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Feyenoord win with a probability of 76.53%. A draw had a probability of 14.5% and a win for PEC Zwolle had a probability of 9%.
The most likely scoreline for a Feyenoord win was 2-0 with a probability of 11%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 3-0 (9.75%) and 2-1 (8.93%). The likeliest drawn scoreline was 1-1 (6.73%), while for a PEC Zwolle win it was 1-2 (2.73%). The actual scoreline of 4-0 was predicted with a 6.5% likelihood. Our data analysis correctly predicted that Feyenoord would win this match.
