IJsselmeervogels vs Spakenburg match preview: Even contest expected at Sportpark De Westmaat

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Competition: Netherlands Tweede Divisie
Competition: Sat 22.April
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sportpark De Westmaat (8000 seats)

Season ticket holders at Sportpark De Westmaat haven’t celebrated many wins this season, with IJsselmeervogels rotting in the 16th position. The visiting Spakenburg will attempt to shield their higher league spot in this fixture.

Insights:
  • Spakenburg have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

These teams are located so close to each other that their supporters eat in the same restaurants, hang out at the same night clubs and give birth at the same hospitals. This means added importance to the game and a vibrant atmosphere.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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IJsselmeervogels form and stats

IJsselmeervogels's struggle is real here at Sportpark De Westmaat with only 14 points collected from 14 Tweede Divisie games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 4-2-8. Hopes of three in a row are alive for IJsselmeervogels after consecutive victories at their own ground.

A nice win for IJsselmeervogels last time playing, versus Spakenburg. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with Haddouti and der Velden scoring for the victors. Manager Karsten felt very clever after Haddouti scored the winning goal against Spakenburg, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 46th minute.

A defeat was the result before that one, 2-3 away at Lisse.

This is expected to be a close game, with IJsselmeervogels perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with IJsselmeervogels as a small favourite), we find 11 games. IJsselmeervogels has won 5 of these, drawn 2 and lost 4.

Some goal stats: A review of the 11 latest league games shows that 9 of them had goals from both sides.

The IJsselmeervogels fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 20 in 14 matches. IJsselmeervogels have conceded 29 goals in these home games, a significant number.

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Spakenburg form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Tweede Divisie travels is 5 wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats.

Spakenburg are travelling again after losing away to IJsselmeervogels in their previous match (1-2). That loss was their first after three consecutive league rounds winning points.

That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus De Treffers.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Spakenburg in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Spakenburg, 6 draws and 4 defeats.

Take note! Both sides have scored in 9 of this club's last 12 league games.

Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Spakenburg have conceded 25 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

IJsselmeervogels have managed a sequence of 9 consecutive games without losing (1-8-0) when facing Spakenburg.

IJsselmeervogels and Spakenburg have faced off before this season: Spakenburg - IJsselmeervogels 1-1.

Top Goalscorers

SpakenburgF. van der Linden
F. van der Linden
12 goals
SpakenburgL. Admiraal
L. Admiraal
11 goals
IJsselmeervogelsS. Sánchez Angulo
S. Sánchez Angulo
7 goals

IJsselmeervogels missing players

Spakenburg missing players

IJsselmeervogels Spakenburg
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
30 15 4 Played P 5 15 30
8 5 2 Won W 4 5 11
5 2 0 Drew D 0 5 9
17 8 2 Lost L 1 5 10
42 22 9 Scored S 11 29 45
61 30 10 Conceded C 4 27 43
97% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
90% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 83%
73% 73% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 67% 47%
47% 47% 75% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 40% 30%
30% 40% 75% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 10%
63% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 40% 73% 60%
10% 13% 0% Clean Sheets C S 60% 20% 20%
30% 27% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 7% 20%
 
4.1 4 6 Corners for (avg) C F 3.8 4.6 4.1
4.6 4.1 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 5.4 6.3 4.1
1.6 1.6 0.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.4 0.9 0.9
4 4 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.3 5.7 6.2 Shots (avg) S ( 9.8 8.8 6.6
2.8 2.8 2.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.6 4.4 3.1
50% 54% 82% Goal Efficiency G E 48% 44% 51%
 
7.2 7.8 5.2 Shots against (avg) S A 9.2 10.1 7.5
3.5 3.6 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.7 3.4
Key stats in Tweede Divisie this season:
  • All of Spakenburg's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Spakenburg have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Spakenburg haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Katwijk 29 19 4 6 65 30 14 11 2 1 40 9 15 8 2 5 25 20 35 61
2 AFC 29 18 6 5 55 29 14 10 2 2 31 16 15 8 4 3 24 13 26 60
3 Rijnsburgse Boys 29 17 6 6 63 34 14 8 3 3 32 15 15 9 3 3 29 19 29 57
4 HHC 30 16 5 9 63 38 15 10 1 4 31 16 15 6 4 5 32 22 25 53
5 Quick Boys 29 15 5 9 65 41 15 9 2 4 40 22 14 6 3 5 25 19 24 50
6 De Treffers 29 14 5 10 48 41 14 7 3 4 26 20 15 7 2 6 22 21 7 47
7 Koninklijke HFC 29 12 6 11 45 37 14 7 3 4 20 16 15 5 3 7 24 21 8 42
8 Spakenburg 29 11 9 9 45 43 15 6 4 5 16 16 14 5 5 4 28 25 2 42
9 Lisse 29 10 11 8 41 41 15 6 7 2 25 16 14 4 4 6 16 25 0 41
10 Kozakken Boys 29 12 4 13 46 48 15 8 2 5 31 20 14 4 2 8 15 26 -2 40
11 Noordwijk 29 11 6 12 39 38 15 6 4 5 24 23 14 5 2 7 15 15 1 39
12 Scheveningen 30 10 8 12 33 42 15 4 4 7 13 24 15 6 4 5 20 18 -9 38
13 Jong Sparta 30 10 7 13 49 53 15 6 4 5 27 26 15 4 3 8 22 27 -4 37
14 Excelsior Maassluis 29 8 8 13 43 62 14 5 3 6 23 24 15 3 5 7 20 38 -19 32
15 TEC 29 8 7 14 34 56 14 4 4 6 18 22 15 4 3 8 16 34 -22 31
16 IJsselmeervogels 29 7 5 17 42 61 14 4 2 8 20 29 15 3 3 9 20 31 -19 26
17 OFC Oostzaan 30 4 7 19 30 76 16 3 4 9 20 37 14 1 3 10 10 39 -46 19
18 Volendam II 29 5 3 21 32 68 15 3 2 10 15 29 14 2 1 11 17 39 -36 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.