The guesting FC Eindhoven team are thought to be odds-on at Almere City, as the away team hold a 10 point advantage from their six league fixtures this season.
- Almere City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- FC Eindhoven have the fewest conceded goals (3) in Eerste Divisie
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting FC Eindhoven have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 4-7-8 (win-draw-loss) from 19 matches.
It's no vacation for neither Almere nor FC Eindhoven as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Almere City form and stats
Almere City have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the Eerste Divisie. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.
Hilterman was the last player to score a league goal for Almere City and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Almere City haven't scored in 180 minutes.
The Almere City crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Telstar here at Yanmar Stadion. Almere's goalkeeper Bakker was extremely busy against Telstar, saving the team from a uglier defeat with a stunning six saves. Defender Royo got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.85/10. Royo hit one key pass and won 9 of 10 duels.
A defeat was the result before that one, 0-3 away at Helmond Sport.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Almere City have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 6 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 0 and lost 2.
Almere City are traveling soon after this match as the Eerste Divisie match at De Graafschap awaits in four days.
A decent goal production from Almere in their home games so far, with 5 goals from 3 league matches. Defensively Almere City have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (1 in 3 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
FC Eindhoven form and stats
FC Eindhoven are happy with their away performances in the Eerste Divisie so far, having secured two victories and one draw from their first three travels.
FC Eindhoven go into this game after a win, the home game against MVV Maastricht that ended 5-0. As you can tell from the results above, Eindhoven was very dominant against MVV Maastricht, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-0 (!) with Amevor, Bannis (2), Rottier and Kokcu providing the goals. Kokcu has bagged at least one goal for this team three fixtures in a row. The efficiency! Bannis, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.85. Bannis scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A 1-1 draw at NAC Breda's stadium before that.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 8 similar matches played by FC Eindhoven in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for FC Eindhoven, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
A new game in only four days for Eindhoven, the Eerste Divisie home match versus Roda JC Kerkrade. Busy days.
The travelling fans enjoy FC Eindhoven's attacking play in away games, having scored 5 goals in 3 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Eindhoven as they have only conceded 2 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - one - three (Almere City wins - draws - FC Eindhoven wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  N. Bannis 4 goals |   J. Hilterman 3 goals | O. Kökcü 3 goals |
Almere City missing players
FC Eindhoven missing players
| Almere City | FC Eindhoven | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 10 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 67% |
| 67% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 33% | 50% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 33% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 67% | 50% |
| 33% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 50% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.7 | 3.3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5 | 5.8 |
| 6.8 | 7.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 7 | 5.8 |
| 1.3 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 3 | 2.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.5 | 10 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 8.3 | 8.5 |
| 4.2 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.3 | 4.2 |
| 28% | 42% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 38% | 52% |
| 9 | 7.3 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 8 | 7.8 |
| 4.8 | 3.7 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
- Almere City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Almere City have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Almere City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- FC Eindhoven have not yet lost a game.
- FC Eindhoven have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- FC Eindhoven have scored in all their matches so far.
- FC Eindhoven have the fewest conceded goals (3) in Eerste Divisie
- FC Eindhoven have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Eerste Divisie
- FC Eindhoven 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 | PEC Zwolle | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 13 | 16 |
| 2 | FC Eindhoven | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 16 |
| 3 | Heracles | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 13 |
| 4 | Jong AZ | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | VVV-Venlo | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 12 |
| 6 | Roda JC Kerkrade | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 7 | NAC Breda | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| 8 | Willem II | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 9 | Jong Ajax | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 |
| 10 | MVV Maastricht | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | -3 | 8 |
| 11 | FC Oss | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 12 | FC Dordrecht | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 7 |
| 13 | Telstar | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -5 | 7 |
| 14 | Almere City | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -3 | 6 |
| 15 | De Graafschap | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 5 |
| 16 | Jong PSV | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -7 | 5 |
| 17 | ADO Den Haag | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -5 | 4 |
| 18 | Jong Utrecht | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -6 | 4 |
| 19 | Helmond Sport | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 3 |
| 20 | FC Den Bosch | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -7 | 3 |
