It's advantage Almere City so far with their 3rd position in the Eerste Divisie table, welcoming FC Volendam who are placed 7th.
- Almere City have the fewest conceded goals (4) at home in Eerste Divisie
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.
FC Volendam play their home games on artifical turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for FC Volendam when playing on grass are 6 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats from 15 matches. They have scored 21 goals and conceded 30 times in these games.
Almere City form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Yanmar Stadion as Almere City, who have the fewest conceded goals (4) at home in Eerste Divisie, have scored 22 goals to get 29 points from 12 games. The overall stats in the Eerste Divisie are 9-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).
The Almere crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-2 to SC Cambuur here at Yanmar Stadion in a Eerste Divisie match. In the preceding match a 4-2 victory visiting FC Oss.
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 Almere City have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won eight times, drawn one and lost four.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Almere as they have a new game in only three days, a Eerste Divisie match thankfully also at home. Excelsior are visiting.
A decent goal production from Almere City in their home games so far, with 22 goals from 12 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Almere have only let in 4 goals at home. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
FC Volendam form and stats
6-5-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for FC Volendam in their Eerste Divisie matches away.
Volendam are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at FC Eindhoven (placed 13th). Before that, Volendam secured a home win against Jong Ajax with the score 3-2.
We have checked recent matches where FC Volendam have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those eight games were four victories, two draws and two defeats.
A quick return to home after this game, as Volendam are hosting Roda JC Kerkrade in the Eerste Divisie only three days away.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, FC Volendam are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Volendam have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Almere and FC Volendam have met before this season: FC Volendam - Almere City 2-2. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Almere won three games, five matches ended with a draw and FC Volendam has two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  T. Verheydt 14 goals |   S. Mulattieri 10 goals | B. Deul 7 goals |
Almere City missing players
FC Volendam missing players
| Almere City | FC Volendam | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 25 |
| 16 | 9 | 2 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 55 | 22 | 4 | Scored | S | 9 | 24 | 52 |
| 34 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 6 | 15 | 33 |
| 92% | 83% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 92% |
| 84% | 75% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 75% | 76% |
| 64% | 42% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 50% | 52% |
| 40% | 8% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 42% | 48% |
| 28% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 25% | 32% |
| 52% | 17% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 67% | 60% |
| 40% | 75% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 25% | 24% |
| 16% | 25% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 17% | 24% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.4 | 0.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13.1 | 13.1 | 14.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.8 | 16.3 | 17.6 |
| 6 | 5.6 | 6.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.8 | 7.2 | 7.2 |
| 37% | 33% | 21% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 28% | 29% |
- Almere City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Almere City have the fewest conceded goals (4) at home 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 | SC Cambuur | 26 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 74 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 39 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 9 | 53 | 63 |
| 2 | De Graafschap | 26 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 54 | 35 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 20 | 19 | 57 |
| 3 | Almere City | 25 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 55 | 34 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 4 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 33 | 30 | 21 | 53 |
| 4 | NAC Breda | 25 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 48 | 23 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 11 | 25 | 50 |
| 5 | Go Ahead Eagles | 26 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 37 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 8 | 19 | 50 |
| 6 | NEC | 25 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 44 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 18 | 14 | 44 |
| 7 | FC Volendam | 25 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 52 | 33 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 15 | 19 | 41 |
| 8 | Roda JC Kerkrade | 26 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 48 | 36 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 20 | 12 | 41 |
| 9 | Telstar | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 43 | 38 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 5 | 34 |
| 10 | Excelsior | 25 | 9 | 3 | 13 | 45 | 44 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 23 | 25 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 22 | 19 | 1 | 30 |
| 11 | Helmond Sport | 26 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 36 | 41 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 21 | -5 | 30 |
| 12 | Jong Ajax | 25 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 41 | 47 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 25 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 22 | -6 | 30 |
| 13 | FC Eindhoven | 26 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 37 | 45 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 23 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 22 | -8 | 29 |
| 14 | FC Oss | 25 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 27 | 40 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 20 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 20 | -13 | 28 |
| 15 | MVV Maastricht | 26 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 28 | 52 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 29 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 23 | -24 | 26 |
| 16 | Jong Utrecht | 25 | 8 | 1 | 16 | 35 | 50 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 22 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 28 | -15 | 25 |
| 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 Dordrecht | 25 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 24 | 64 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 25 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 39 | -40 | 18 |
| 20 | FC Den Bosch | 25 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 29 | 56 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 38 | -27 | 16 |