Almere City are listed as favourites to win this home match vs Jong Utrecht, if the league standings are thought to provide some clues. Or are we eyeing a possible shock?
- Almere City have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (15) in Eerste Divisie
- Jong Utrecht have the fewest scored goals (27) 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.
Almere City form and stats
7-3-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Eerste Divisie numbers at home for Almere City so far this season.
The Almere coach Pastoor and his pawns return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Heracles (placed 2nd). Midfield player Peña got a match rating of 7.7 in that game, the max score being 10. Peña scored one goal and had 32 successful passes (of 38 total).
Before that match, a win away at Jong Ajax.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Almere City home games with this odds we find 5 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. Looking at the victories, 2 matches were won by at least two goals.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Almere, as the Eerste Divisie home game vs Jong AZ is only four days away.
Almere City have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Yanmar Stadion with 24 goals in 14 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. 17 goals have been conceded.
Jong Utrecht form and stats
Jong Utrecht have only collected 8 points from their away games in the Eerste Divisie, after 2-2-11 (15 played). With the Utrecht losing streak of five defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking.
Jong Utrecht have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 298 minutes ago. Descotte was the goal scorer.
Jong Utrecht lost away at PEC Zwolle (0-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Jong Utrecht goalkeeper Gadellaa could take pride in a splendid day at work versus PEC Zwolle, but despite managing nine saves the loss could not be helped.
A 0-1 defeat away at MVV Maastricht before that.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Utrecht played away with similar odds. This revealed 5 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 2 were draws and the home team won as expected 3 times.
Few goals the story here? 9 of this team's latest 12 league matches have contained two goals or less.
Jong Utrecht have conceded 34 goals in these games. Utrecht has visited these top teams three times, and 2 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!
Head 2 Head
Almere City have put together a sequence of 5 consecutive matches without defeat (4-1-0) when playing Jong Utrecht.The squads have met each other before in this season, with the result Jong Utrecht - Almere City 0-2 written in the official records.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Hilterman 13 goals |  D. Sanches Fernandes 8 goals | L. Duijvestijn 7 goals |
Almere City missing players
Jong Utrecht missing players
| Almere City | Jong Utrecht | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 30 | 14 | 6 | Played | P | 3 | 15 | 30 |
| 16 | 7 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 3 | 11 | 20 |
| 43 | 24 | 10 | Scored | S | 2 | 15 | 27 |
| 33 | 17 | 6 | Conceded | C | 10 | 34 | 52 |
| 97% | 93% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 97% |
| 70% | 79% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 93% | 77% |
| 47% | 64% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 47% |
| 23% | 36% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 23% |
| 17% | 21% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 20% | 13% |
| 47% | 64% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 67% | 47% |
| 40% | 29% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 17% | 14% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | 47% |
| 5 | 5.4 | 6.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.4 |
| 5.2 | 5.1 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8.7 | 5.2 | 4.9 |
| 1.9 | 1.4 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 11 | 12.2 | 13.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 9.2 | 10.3 |
| 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.7 | 3.6 |
| 33% | 36% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 27% | 25% |
| 8.7 | 7.6 | 5.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16.7 | 12.1 | 12 |
| 3.8 | 4.1 | 2.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8 | 5.5 | 4.9 |
- Almere City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Almere City have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (15) in Eerste Divisie
- Jong Utrecht have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Jong Utrecht have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Jong Utrecht have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Jong Utrecht have the fewest scored goals (27) in Eerste Divisie
- Jong Utrecht 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 | PEC Zwolle | 31 | 23 | 3 | 5 | 83 | 32 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 49 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 34 | 15 | 51 | 72 |
| 2 | Heracles | 31 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 87 | 36 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 55 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 32 | 19 | 51 | 67 |
| 3 | Almere City | 30 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 43 | 33 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 10 | 53 |
| 4 | VVV-Venlo | 31 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 49 | 42 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 24 | 7 | 52 |
| 5 | Willem II | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 51 | 34 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 26 | 20 | 17 | 50 |
| 6 | FC Eindhoven | 31 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 46 | 45 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 27 | 1 | 47 |
| 7 | MVV Maastricht | 31 | 14 | 5 | 12 | 56 | 56 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 37 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 19 | 38 | 0 | 47 |
| 8 | NAC Breda | 31 | 14 | 4 | 13 | 52 | 55 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 21 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 34 | -3 | 46 |
| 9 | Telstar | 31 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 32 | 44 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 23 | -12 | 43 |
| 10 | ADO Den Haag | 31 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 39 | 45 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 24 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 21 | -6 | 42 |
| 11 | Roda JC Kerkrade | 30 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 41 | 40 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 1 | 41 |
| 12 | Jong AZ | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 49 | 49 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 32 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 29 | 0 | 41 |
| 13 | Graafschap | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 47 | 41 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 26 | 26 | 6 | 39 |
| 14 | Jong PSV | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 46 | 49 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 25 | 25 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 24 | -3 | 38 |
| 15 | Helmond Sport | 31 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 30 | 47 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 29 | -17 | 35 |
| 16 | Jong Ajax | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 51 | 58 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 22 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 24 | 36 | -7 | 31 |
| 17 | FC Oss | 31 | 9 | 4 | 18 | 36 | 57 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 23 | 29 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 28 | -21 | 31 |
| 18 | FC Den Bosch | 30 | 9 | 3 | 18 | 42 | 73 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 27 | 26 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 15 | 47 | -31 | 30 |
| 19 | FC Dordrecht | 30 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 32 | 51 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 28 | -19 | 27 |
| 20 | Jong Utrecht | 30 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 27 | 52 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 34 | -25 | 20 |
