AZ Alkmaar 2-0 Anderlecht: result and report

Europa Conference League · Thursday 20 April 2023

Result

AZ Alkmaar 2-0 Anderlecht

Europa Conference League · Thursday 20 April 2023, 16:45 UTC · half-time 2-0

AZ Alkmaar · Anderlecht · Europa Conference League predictions

AZ Alkmaar 2-0 Anderlecht: match report

AZ Alkmaar defeated Anderlecht 2-0 in the Europa Conference League on Thursday 20 April 2023. The half-time score was 2-0.

Vangelis Pavlidis opened the scoring in the 5th minute. AZ Alkmaar's goals came from Vangelis Pavlidis (5', penalty) and Vangelis Pavlidis (13'). Anderlecht did not score.

Discipline: AZ Alkmaar received 5 yellow cards; Anderlecht received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game AZ Alkmaar were 1st on 36 points from 15 and Anderlecht 7th on 27 points from 15. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa Conference League season and is kept for reference.

AZ Alkmaar lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Anderlecht in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Moussa Ndiaye of Anderlecht (8.2), ahead of Mathew Ryan (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 AZ Alkmaar wins, 0 draws and 1 for Anderlecht.

Going into the match AZ Alkmaar's last five read L-W-W-W-W and Anderlecht's W-W-D-W-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Penalty goal · Vangelis PavlidisAZ Alkmaar · 1-0
  • 13'Goal · Vangelis PavlidisAZ Alkmaar · 2-0
  • 32'Yellow card · Amadou DiawaraAnderlecht
  • 40'Yellow card · Vangelis PavlidisAZ Alkmaar
  • 55'Yellow card · Francis AmuzuAnderlecht
  • 59'Yellow card · Tijjani ReijndersAZ Alkmaar
  • 59'Yellow card · M. KerkezAZ Alkmaar
  • 80'Yellow card · S. MijnansAZ Alkmaar
  • 114'Yellow card · Jordy ClasieAZ Alkmaar

Head-to-head

3 meetings: AZ Alkmaar 2, draws 0, Anderlecht 1.

Team news

AZ Alkmaar line-up (4-2-3-1)

Mathew Ryan, Yukinari Sugawara, Sam Beukema, Pantelis Hatzidiakos, Milos Kerkez, Jordy Clasie, Tijjani Reijnders, Jens Odgaard, Sven Mijnans, Myron van Brederode, Vangelis Pavlidis

Anderlecht line-up (4-3-3)

Bart Verbruggen, Amir Murillo, Zeno Debast, Jan Vertonghen, Moussa Ndiaye, Anders Dreyer, Amadou Diawara, Lior Refaelov, Majeed Ashimeru, Francis Amuzu, Islam Slimani