FC Eindhoven vs Almere City: Soccer betting preview

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Competition: Netherlands Eerste Divisie
Competition: Fri 12.March
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Jan Louwers Stadion (4600 seats)

FC Eindhoven will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 27 points behind Almere City.

Insights:
  • FC Eindhoven have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Almere City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

FC Eindhoven's stadium, Jan Louwers Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. Almere City have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Almere City when playing on artifical turf; 7 wins, 7 draws and 9 losses from 23 matches. They have scored 41 goals in these games and conceded 51.

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FC Eindhoven form and stats

When playing at home in the Eerste Divisie, FC Eindhoven have managed 4 wins, 4 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 13 games. All in all it has been a very rough period for FC Eindhoven who hasn’t won a league-game in their last eleven attempts. Their previous win was against MVV Maastricht, 89 days ago.

No payout for FC Eindhoven in their previous match, an away game at De Graafschap that ended in defeat 0-1. Preceding that game was the home draw versus FC Volendam that ended 1-1.

Ruud Swinkels had a busy but productive day in the De Graafschap match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented. Heartbreak for FC Eindhoven in their last match as De Graafschap's M. Platje scored the winning goal deep into overtime.

Goals decide football matches and Eindhoven are scoring many of them at home; 26 on target from 13 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Eindhoven have conceded 23 from these games.

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Almere City form and stats

The visitors are W7-D3-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Eerste Divisie.

Almere City are travelling after their nice 4-1 home win in the Eerste Divisie against Excelsior (placed 10th). A 1-2 loss hosting FC Volendam before that.

Almere are a potent attacking force on the road with their 33 goals in 13 league games. The Almere City manager O. Tobiasen has some worries about the defense as 30 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Almere City - Eindhoven 0-0, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Eindhoven victories, one draw and five Almere City wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Almere CityT. Verheydt
T. Verheydt
14 goals
Almere CityF. Hammouti
F. Hammouti
7 goals
FC EindhovenH. Botermans
H. Botermans
6 goals

FC Eindhoven missing players

Almere City missing players

FC Eindhoven Almere City
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
27 13 5 Played P 5 13 27
7 4 1 Won W 3 7 17
8 4 0 Drew D 1 3 5
12 5 4 Lost L 1 3 5
37 26 7 Scored S 16 33 60
46 23 14 Conceded C 11 30 37
93% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
78% 85% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 92% 85%
52% 62% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 85% 67%
33% 54% 60% Over 3.5 O 3.5 80% 69% 41%
30% 46% 60% Over 4.5 O 4.5 60% 46% 30%
56% 62% 60% BTTS BTTS 100% 85% 56%
19% 23% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 8% 37%
33% 23% 40% Failed to Score F T 0% 8% 15%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.4 2.4 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.3 1.2
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.4 11.2 11 Shots (avg) S ( 13.8 13.2 12.7
4.6 5.5 4.4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.8 6.4 5.9
30% 36% 32% Goal Efficiency G E 47% 40% 38%
Key stats in Eerste Divisie this season:
  • Almere City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Almere City haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • FC Eindhoven have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 SC Cambuur 27 21 3 3 77 22 14 11 0 3 42 13 13 10 3 0 35 9 55 66
2 De Graafschap 27 19 3 5 55 35 14 10 2 2 27 15 13 9 1 3 28 20 20 60
3 Almere City 27 17 5 5 60 37 14 10 2 2 27 7 13 7 3 3 33 30 23 56
4 NAC Breda 26 16 5 5 51 23 13 9 1 3 29 12 13 7 4 2 22 11 28 53
5 Go Ahead Eagles 27 16 5 6 41 18 13 6 3 4 15 10 14 10 2 2 26 8 23 53
6 NEC 27 15 5 7 55 31 13 7 3 3 25 13 14 8 2 4 30 18 24 50
7 FC Volendam 27 12 8 7 57 38 14 5 3 6 31 22 13 7 5 1 26 16 19 44
8 Roda JC Kerkrade 27 12 8 7 52 39 13 6 4 3 25 16 14 6 4 4 27 23 13 44
9 Telstar 27 9 7 11 44 41 13 4 4 5 27 20 14 5 3 6 17 21 3 34
10 Excelsior 27 10 3 14 51 49 13 5 1 7 28 26 14 5 2 7 23 23 2 33
11 Jong Ajax 27 8 6 13 43 54 14 3 4 7 19 27 13 5 2 6 24 27 -11 30
12 Helmond Sport 27 7 9 11 36 48 14 5 2 7 19 27 13 2 7 4 17 21 -12 30
13 FC Eindhoven 27 7 8 12 37 46 13 4 4 5 26 23 14 3 4 7 11 23 -9 29
14 MVV Maastricht 27 8 5 14 29 52 13 5 2 6 20 29 14 3 3 8 9 23 -23 29
15 Jong Utrecht 27 9 1 17 38 52 14 5 0 9 19 24 13 4 1 8 19 28 -14 28
16 FC Oss 27 8 4 15 27 47 14 5 2 7 21 24 13 3 2 8 6 23 -20 28
17 Jong PSV 26 6 6 14 37 54 13 2 5 6 16 22 13 4 1 8 21 32 -17 24
18 Jong AZ 26 6 5 15 36 69 13 3 3 7 24 36 13 3 2 8 12 33 -33 23
19 FC Den Bosch 27 4 7 16 32 61 13 3 5 5 19 18 14 1 2 11 13 43 -29 19
20 FC Dordrecht 26 5 3 18 25 67 13 3 3 7 15 25 13 2 0 11 10 42 -42 18

Read more about Eerste Divisie

The Eerste Divisie, meaning “First Division”, is the second highest level of football in the Netherlands. 20 teams play two fixtures against each other to form a final league table after 380 games. The winning team is promoted with a creative playoff system deciding whether more teams promote.