Betting preview: Excelsior faced with a tough challenge when SC Cambuur visits

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Competition: Netherlands Eerste Divisie
Competition: Sun 20.December
Match begins: 11:15 (UTC)
Venue: Van Donge & De Roo Stadion (4500 seats)

This could be an interesting match as Excelsior have their presumed home advantage while SC Cambuur are ahead 20 points in the Eerste Divisie table.

Insights:
  • Excelsior have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • SC Cambuur has the most scored goals (52) in Eerste Divisie

SC Cambuur could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a KNVB Beker game only three sleeps ago.

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Excelsior form and stats

3 victories, 0 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Excelsior have to build on here at Van Donge & De Roo Stadion in the Eerste Divisie. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Excelsior to get some points in this home game.

A nice win for Excelsior last time playing, versus PEC Zwolle. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-0 with Thomas Oude Kotte and Ahmad Mendes Moreira scoring for the victors. A Eerste Divisie defeat was the result before that one, 2-3 away at Jong Utrecht.

Alessandro Damen loved the game against PEC Zwolle. With a stunning six saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 2-0 victory.

Goals decide football matches and Excelsior are scoring many of them at home; 17 on target from 7 league matches. Excelsior have conceded 14 goals in these home games, a significant number.

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SC Cambuur form and stats

Rock solid. That's the only way to describe the travels of SC Cambuur so far, with 6-1-0 (wins-draws-losses) so far. Those are Eerste Divisie statistics. Impressively, the visitors are on a six-match winning run which they hope continue versus Excelsior. Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes Cambuur's record of five away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the FC Oss game.

Cambuur failed to get anything from their last game, a KNVB Beker home match vs Go Ahead Eagles (placed 8th) that ended with defeat 1-2. Before that, Cambuur secured a home win against Jong AZ with the score 2-0.

The prediction for this game is lots of goals as SC Cambuur alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (23 from 7 played). It's not easy to score on Cambuur as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: three wins for Excelsior, two draws and five wins for SC Cambuur. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

Top Goalscorers

ExcelsiorE. Ómarsson
E. Ómarsson
17 goals
SC CambuurR. Mühren
R. Mühren
14 goals
SC CambuurG. Korte
G. Korte
8 goals

Excelsior missing players

SC Cambuur missing players

Excelsior SC Cambuur
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
16 7 3 Played P 1 7 16
6 3 0 Won W 1 6 13
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 1
8 4 3 Lost L 0 0 2
32 17 7 Scored S 2 23 52
28 14 11 Conceded C 1 5 15
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
88% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 94%
75% 86% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 71% 69%
44% 43% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 57% 56%
31% 43% 67% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 29% 38%
69% 71% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 57% 50%
25% 29% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 43% 44%
12% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 6%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0.9 0.6 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.1 1.2
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
13.3 12.3 12 Shots (avg) S ( 13 14.7 15.6
5.7 5.1 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 6.1 7.4
35% 47% 47% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 53% 44%
Key stats in Eerste Divisie this season:
  • All of Excelsior's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Excelsior have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Excelsior have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Excelsior haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • SC Cambuur has the fewest conceded goals (5) away in Eerste Divisie
  • SC Cambuur has the most points (19) away in Eerste Divisie
  • SC Cambuur has the most scored goals (23) away in Eerste Divisie
  • SC Cambuur has the most scored goals (52) in Eerste Divisie
  • SC Cambuur has the most scored goals in the first half (22) in Eerste Divisie
  • SC Cambuur has the most scored goals in the second half (30) in Eerste Divisie
  • SC Cambuur has the the best goal difference (+18) away in Eerste Divisie
  • SC Cambuur has the the best goal difference (+37) in Eerste Divisie
  • SC Cambuur have not yet lost a game away.
  • SC Cambuur have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • SC Cambuur have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • SC Cambuur have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • SC Cambuur haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • SC Cambuur is in the best form (6-0-0)

  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 16 13 1 2 52 15 9 7 0 2 29 10 7 6 1 0 23 5 37 40
2 Almere City 16 11 4 1 39 21 8 7 1 0 18 2 8 4 3 1 21 19 18 37
3 Graafschap 16 10 2 4 33 26 8 5 1 2 17 12 8 5 1 2 16 14 7 32
4 NEC 16 9 4 3 31 17 7 4 2 1 15 7 9 5 2 2 16 10 14 31
5 FC Volendam 16 8 6 2 43 19 9 4 3 2 24 9 7 4 3 0 19 10 24 30
6 NAC Breda 16 9 2 5 27 15 8 5 0 3 15 9 8 4 2 2 12 6 12 29
7 FC Eindhoven 16 7 4 5 29 28 9 4 3 2 23 14 7 3 1 3 6 14 1 25
8 Go Ahead Eagles 16 6 5 5 17 13 8 2 3 3 8 7 8 4 2 2 9 6 4 23
9 Roda JC Kerkrade 16 5 7 4 26 21 8 4 4 0 16 5 8 1 3 4 10 16 5 22
10 Telstar 16 6 4 6 27 23 9 3 2 4 18 13 7 3 2 2 9 10 4 22
11 Jong Ajax 16 6 4 6 30 32 8 3 2 3 13 16 8 3 2 3 17 16 -2 22
12 Excelsior 16 6 2 8 32 28 7 3 0 4 17 14 9 3 2 4 15 14 4 20
13 Jong Utrecht 16 6 1 9 24 31 9 3 0 6 11 16 7 3 1 3 13 15 -7 19
14 FC Oss 16 5 4 7 14 23 8 3 2 3 10 9 8 2 2 4 4 14 -9 19
15 Jong PSV 16 4 4 8 24 31 7 1 3 3 8 12 9 3 1 5 16 19 -7 16
16 Helmond Sport 16 4 4 8 15 26 8 2 1 5 6 14 8 2 3 3 9 12 -11 16
17 Jong AZ 16 3 2 11 21 44 7 1 2 4 14 21 9 2 0 7 7 23 -23 11
18 FC Dordrecht 16 3 2 11 13 40 8 2 2 4 9 13 8 1 0 7 4 27 -27 11
19 FC Den Bosch 16 2 4 10 16 37 8 2 3 3 11 11 8 0 1 7 5 26 -21 10
20 MVV Maastricht 16 2 4 10 18 41 7 1 1 5 11 24 9 1 3 5 7 17 -23 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.