Full preview: Excelsior Maassluis odds-on to triumph over OFC Oostzaan at Sportpark Dijkpolder

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Competition: Netherlands Tweede Divisie
Competition: Sat 13.May
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Sportpark Dijkpolder (5000 seats)

Pay more attention to their own tactics or switch tactics dependant on the opposing team? Both Excelsior Maassluis and OFC Oostzaan have to try something else than in earlier matches. Read more!

Insights:
  • OFC Oostzaan have the fewest scored goals (30) in Tweede Divisie

Excelsior Maassluis and OFC Oostzaan should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Excelsior Maassluis form and stats

The overall Tweede Divisie stats at home this season for Excelsior Maassluis are 5-3-7 (wins-draws-losses). When Excelsior Maassluis hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like TEC, Scheveningen, Excelsior Maassluis, Volendam II and IJsselmeervogels), they have won 2 of 4 matches! Regardless of arena the trend is looking very unhealthy for Excelsior Maassluis with their five defeats in a row. Not since the Noordwijk game, 48 days ago, have they avoided a loss.

Excelsior Maassluis are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Koninklijke HFC.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Quick Boys (0-2).

Lots of goals? Nobody knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 9 of the 11 most recent league matches with this team has had three goals or more.

The Excelsior Maassluis fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 23 goals in 15 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Excelsior defense is not exactly impregnable. 26 goals conceded from 15 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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OFC Oostzaan form and stats

OFC Oostzaan have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Tweede Divisie, after 1-3-11 (15 played). OFC Oostzaan seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Oostzaan play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-2 to Quick Boys (placed 4th).

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Scheveningen.

The attacking power of OFC Oostzaan when travelling is not overwhelming with 10 goals scored from 15 league matches away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. OFC Oostzaan are struggling defensively in their away games, having conceded 10 goals in these matches.

Head 2 Head

These teams encountered each other before this campaign: OFC Oostzaan - Excelsior 3-1. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's one Excelsior Maassluis victory, zero draws and one OFC Oostzaan win. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Excelsior MaassluisP. Langedijk
P. Langedijk
15 goals
OFC OostzaanN. Butter
N. Butter
10 goals
Excelsior MaassluisB. Wennekers
B. Wennekers
7 goals

Excelsior Maassluis missing players

OFC Oostzaan missing players

Excelsior Maassluis OFC Oostzaan
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
31 15 4 Played P 4 15 31
8 5 2 Won W 0 1 4
8 3 1 Drew D 1 3 7
15 7 1 Lost L 3 11 20
44 23 12 Scored S 3 10 30
66 26 8 Conceded C 10 41 78
97% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
84% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 97%
65% 60% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 60% 68%
45% 47% 75% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 40% 45%
29% 27% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 27% 26%
65% 53% 75% BTTS BTTS 50% 33% 55%
13% 13% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 7% 6%
26% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 60% 42%
 
3.9 3.8 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.2 4 4
5.4 5.9 4.8 Corners against (avg) C A 4.8 6.9 6.6
1.2 1.4 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.8 0.8 0.9
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
8.4 8.8 13 Shots (avg) S ( 14.8 6.5 5.9
3.3 4 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 2.7 2.6
44% 41% 46% Goal Efficiency G E 12% 21% 35%
 
11.3 12.7 11.8 Shots against (avg) S A 14.5 11.5 10.8
4.4 4.7 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 8.2 5.9 5.2
Key stats in Tweede Divisie this season:
  • All of OFC Oostzaan's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Excelsior Maassluis have scored at least twice as many goals at home as OFC Oostzaan have scored away.
  • OFC Oostzaan have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • OFC Oostzaan have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Tweede Divisie
  • OFC Oostzaan have the fewest points (6) away in Tweede Divisie
  • OFC Oostzaan have the fewest scored goals (10) away in Tweede Divisie
  • OFC Oostzaan have the fewest scored goals (30) in Tweede Divisie
  • OFC Oostzaan have the fewest scored goals in the second half (16) in Tweede Divisie
  • OFC Oostzaan have the most conceded goals (78) in Tweede Divisie
  • OFC Oostzaan have the the worst goal difference (-31) away in Tweede Divisie
  • OFC Oostzaan have the the worst goal difference (-48) in Tweede Divisie
  • OFC Oostzaan haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 AFC 31 19 7 5 58 30 15 10 3 2 32 17 16 9 4 3 26 13 28 64
2 Rijnsburgse Boys 31 19 6 6 66 36 15 9 3 3 34 15 16 10 3 3 32 21 30 63
3 Katwijk 31 19 5 7 69 35 15 11 3 1 41 10 16 8 2 6 28 25 34 62
4 Quick Boys 31 17 5 9 69 41 16 10 2 4 42 22 15 7 3 5 27 19 28 56
5 HHC 31 17 5 9 67 39 15 10 1 4 31 16 16 7 4 5 36 23 28 56
6 De Treffers 31 16 5 10 56 43 15 8 3 4 32 21 16 8 2 6 24 22 13 53
7 Koninklijke HFC 31 13 7 11 47 39 15 8 3 4 22 17 16 5 4 7 25 22 8 46
8 Lisse 31 10 12 9 43 44 16 6 7 3 27 19 15 4 5 6 16 25 -1 42
9 Spakenburg 31 11 9 11 45 48 16 6 4 6 16 19 15 5 5 5 29 29 -3 42
10 Noordwijk 31 11 7 13 41 41 16 6 4 6 25 25 15 5 3 7 16 16 0 40
11 Jong Sparta 31 11 7 13 54 56 16 7 4 5 32 29 15 4 3 8 22 27 -2 40
12 Kozakken Boys 31 12 4 15 47 52 16 8 2 6 32 24 15 4 2 9 15 28 -5 40
13 Scheveningen 31 10 8 13 33 44 16 4 4 8 13 26 15 6 4 5 20 18 -11 38
14 TEC 31 9 8 14 37 56 15 4 5 6 18 22 16 5 3 8 19 34 -19 35
15 Excelsior Maassluis 31 8 8 15 44 66 15 5 3 7 23 26 16 3 5 8 21 40 -22 32
16 IJsselmeervogels 31 8 5 17 44 61 15 5 2 8 24 30 16 3 3 9 20 31 -17 29
17 OFC Oostzaan 31 4 7 20 30 78 16 3 4 9 20 37 15 1 3 11 10 41 -48 19
18 Volendam II 31 5 3 22 33 74 16 3 2 10 15 29 15 2 1 12 18 45 -41 18

Read more about Tweede Divisie

The Tweede Divisie in the Netherlands, meaning “Second Division”, is the third highest division in Dutch football. It is a semi-professional league which consists of 18 teams. These teams meet each other twice for a total of 306 fixtures deciding the final league table.