Delightful dogfight as daring ADO Den Haag duel with determined NAC Breda

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Competition: Netherlands Eerste Divisie
Competition: Fri 17.December
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Cars Jeans Stadion (17023 seats)

5th place in the Eerste Divisie table for ADO Den Haag so far this season, a strong performance. The home team followers hope for more goals as 9th-placed NAC Breda visit Cars Jeans Stadion.

Insights:
  • ADO Den Haag is in the best form (6-0-0) in Eerste Divisie
  • NAC Breda have the most clean sheets (7) in Eerste Divisie

NAC Breda play their home games on grass, while this fixture takes place on artifical turf. Relevant results for NAC Breda when playing on artifical turf are 10 wins, 8 draws and 5 defeats from 23 matches. They have created 44 goals and conceded 29 times in these games.

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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ADO Den Haag form and stats

ADO Den Haag are steadily winning Eerste Divisie games and points here at Cars Jeans Stadion. 7 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats is the summary from 9 games. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of six straight victories regardless of arena.

The Haag supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Gemert in KNVB Beker and win 4-2. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? Verheydt, who usually features in attack, was the champion performer for the side in that fixture, earning a rating of 8.44 (out of 10). Verheydt scored two goals and hit two key passes.

Before that game, the 3-2 home victory against Jong AZ.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Haag have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found four games) they have won four times, drawn zero and lost zero.

The Haag manager Brood has got the team scoring with 22 from 9 home games in the league. On the other hand, Haag have conceded 11 goals.

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NAC Breda form and stats

There's been little loot from NAC Breda's travels as they have only collected 9 points from 10 away games in the Eerste Divisie. NAC Breda only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 3 draws.

Breda won their last game, 3-2 versus FC Utrecht played at home. Late drama in the previous game, when Kotzebue scored the winning goal two minutes into stoppage time to defeat FC Utrecht. Midfielder Haye was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.32. Haye scored two goals, served one assist and hit three key passes.

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Almere City in the Eerste Divisie.

Breda are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, zero draws and two defeats. From a total of four matches.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Breda have scored 14 goals in 10 league games away. As for defending, Breda rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 16 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The squads have played each other already this season, with the result NAC Breda - ADO Den Haag 3-0 written in the official records. Numbers for the prior ten meetings between these two sides are: four wins for ADO Den Haag, four draws and two wins for NAC Breda. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.

Top Goalscorers

HaagT. Verheydt
T. Verheydt
14 goals
ADO Den HaagS. Steijn
S. Steijn
11 goals
NAC BredaR. Seuntjens
R. Seuntjens
10 goals

ADO Den Haag missing players

NAC Breda missing players

ADO Den Haag NAC Breda
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 9 4 Played P 3 10 19
13 7 4 Won W 0 2 7
2 0 0 Drew D 0 3 6
4 2 0 Lost L 3 5 6
44 22 11 Scored S 3 14 31
23 11 4 Conceded C 9 16 23
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 89%
84% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 70% 74%
58% 56% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 53%
47% 44% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 40% 32%
37% 44% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 20% 16%
53% 56% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 40% 47%
32% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 30% 37%
21% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 50% 26%
 
5.5 6.2 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.3 5.4 5.7
4.6 4.4 4 Corners against (avg) C A 4.3 4.5 4.7
1.7 1.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 0.8 0.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
12.6 13.9 13.5 Shots (avg) S ( 10.7 10.9 11.9
5.9 6.3 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.7 4.9 5.1
39% 39% 46% Goal Efficiency G E 21% 29% 32%
 
8.5 9.1 8 Shots against (avg) S A 14 12.1 10.9
3.8 3.8 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.1 4.3
Key stats in Eerste Divisie this season:
  • ADO Den Haag haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • ADO Den Haag is in the best form (6-0-0) in Eerste Divisie
  • All of ADO Den Haag's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • NAC Breda have the most clean sheets (7) in Eerste Divisie

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 FC Volendam 19 12 6 1 47 25 10 7 2 1 26 14 9 5 4 0 21 11 22 42
2 Excelsior 19 13 2 4 47 25 9 5 2 2 21 13 10 8 0 2 26 12 22 41
3 FC Emmen 19 11 3 5 29 15 9 6 0 3 17 6 10 5 3 2 12 9 14 36
4 Jong Ajax 19 11 3 5 44 31 9 6 1 2 24 14 10 5 2 3 20 17 13 36
5 ADO Den Haag 19 13 2 4 44 23 9 7 0 2 22 11 10 6 2 2 22 12 21 35
6 Graafschap 19 10 3 6 31 23 10 3 3 4 10 14 9 7 0 2 21 9 8 33
7 Roda JC Kerkrade 19 8 6 5 37 27 10 3 4 3 16 14 9 5 2 2 21 13 10 30
8 FC Eindhoven 19 9 3 7 33 27 9 6 2 1 18 10 10 3 1 6 15 17 6 30
9 NAC Breda 19 7 6 6 31 23 9 5 3 1 17 7 10 2 3 5 14 16 8 27
10 FC Den Bosch 19 8 1 10 22 34 10 6 0 4 12 17 9 2 1 6 10 17 -12 25
11 VVV-Venlo 19 7 2 10 21 25 10 5 1 4 14 12 9 2 1 6 7 13 -4 23
12 MVV Maastricht 19 7 2 10 22 39 10 4 2 4 15 17 9 3 0 6 7 22 -17 23
13 Jong PSV 19 6 4 9 29 32 10 4 2 4 16 14 9 2 2 5 13 18 -3 22
14 Jong Utrecht 19 6 4 9 24 31 9 3 0 6 9 17 10 3 4 3 15 14 -7 22
15 Jong AZ 19 6 3 10 16 22 10 4 2 4 8 9 9 2 1 6 8 13 -6 21
16 Helmond Sport 19 5 4 10 17 29 10 3 2 5 9 17 9 2 2 5 8 12 -12 19
17 Telstar 19 4 7 8 22 39 9 1 3 5 12 23 10 3 4 3 10 16 -17 19
18 Almere City 19 4 5 10 31 40 9 2 2 5 15 19 10 2 3 5 16 21 -9 17
19 FC Oss 19 3 6 10 20 31 10 2 4 4 14 17 9 1 2 6 6 14 -11 15
20 FC Dordrecht 19 2 4 13 22 48 9 1 3 5 10 19 10 1 1 8 12 29 -26 10

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.