AZ are surprising everyone in the Netherlands at the moment, they are top of the league after 9 games and have only lost once this season.
They have won 7 of their league games and in the process have banged in 23 goals.
AZ are unbeaten in 11 games in all competitions and have won 9 of these games.
AZ play their best football in front of their home fans, they haven't lost here since February which was a defeat at the hands of PSV.
That is now a run of 18 home games without a loss and they have amazingly won 16 of these games including their last 11 in a row!
This has included home wins over Twente 2-1, PSV 3-1, Feyenoord 2-1, NEC 4-0, AGOVV 5-0, De Graafschap 5-1.
In the Europa league AZ have already had wins this year at home to Jablonec 2-0, Aalesund 6-0 and most recently a 4-1 win over Swedish outfit Malmo.
None of these teams are easy to beat but AZ have showed so much ability whilst playing at home, especially in attack.
AZ have a very young squad, last season you could see a lot of their players starting to come of age, they lacked a lot of experience but the potential of the squad was as clear as day.
Luckily through pre season AZ have managed to keep hold of the majority of those players and they have just seemed to all click at once.
Because of this youth AZ have so much energy, they are a side full of ideas and are a constant threat on the ball.
I love to watch them play and the Europa League is a big deal for these players and it tells in their performances.
For a lot of these players, they will go on to bigger and better things I am sure, to win something like the Europa league so early in their careers would go great on their CV's and I honestly feel they have the potential to go all the way in this competition, expect to see them there or there about's towards the end.
Their opponents today Austria Wien are not on bad form it has to be said.
Despite losing their last game, they had previously won 5 games in a row.
They are 2nd in the league with 20 points from 11 games.
Lets face it though, the Austrian league is a weak one, it doesn't produce good teams often in European Competition and when compared to the Dutch League which is growing in quality year after year, there is a big gap in class between the 2 nations.
I am not saying that Wien are not capable of taking something from this game, if they played out of their skins they would have chances.
I cannot however see them being able to stop wave after wave of AZ attacks and they will concede goals.
Wien have conceded at least 1 goal in all of their last 10 games in all competitions, even the 5 games in a row they did win they just couldn't keep a clean sheet.
They have already lost 2 of their 3 Europa League games and have also conceded in all 3 of those.
Wien are just another one of those teams that I love including in bets involving goals as they get into their stride they take more and more risks going forward and get mauled on counter attacks, something that AZ have executed to a devastating effect this season at times.
Over 2.5 goals looks almost certain to me in this one but the odds are very short indeed around the 1.44 mark.
Instead I like AZ to score in both halves in this game, which they have been doing regularly at home recently and is available at 1.91 with Coral.
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