FC Den Bosch vs Jong Ajax betting preview: Even match expected

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Bosch and Jong Ajax.

Bosch's stadium, Stadion De Vliert, has a artifical turf surface. Jong Ajax have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Jong Ajax when playing on artifical turf; 10 wins, 5 draws and 12 losses from 27 matches. They have scored 46 goals in these games and conceded 49.

FC Den Bosch form and stats

The hosts won their first Eerste Divisie game here at Stadion De Vliert, lifting spirits. Home statistics for FC Den Bosch last season were 6 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses from 19 games.

FC Den Bosch are confident in defense, having played 202 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

It's back home for FC Den Bosch, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Jong PSV away with the result 1-0. Jizz Hornkamp found the net in that victory. Jizz Hornkamp, who plays in attack, was the top performer for the team in that game, scoring a rating of 8.0 (out of 10). Hornkamp scored one goal and dribled passed the opponent 3 of 3 times.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Helmond Sport in a game that was won 2-0.

This is expected to be a close game, with FC Den Bosch perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with FC Den Bosch as a small favourite), we find six games. FC Den Bosch has won two of these, drawn one and lost three.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the FC Den Bosch at home in the league. 2 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.

Jong Ajax form and stats

The visitors' first away game in the Eerste Divisie ended in defeat. Last season Jong Ajax had these away match statistics: Played 19; won 6, drew 4 and lost 9.

Jong failed to get anything from their last game, a Eerste Divisie home match vs FC Dordrecht (placed 4th) that ended with defeat 1-2. Midfield player Giovanni was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.4/10. Giovanni served one assist, hit one key pass and had 34 successful passes (of 37 total). Jong goalkeeper Jay Gorter had a great day against FC Dordrecht, but despite making six saves the loss could not be avoided.

Prior to that match, the Jong manager J. Heitinga faced defeat when travelling to ADO Den Haag and losing 0-2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Jong in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Jong Ajax, one draw and four defeats.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Jong Ajax has managed 0 goals and let in 2 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

Previous ten meetings between these participants: Bosch won one, Jong Ajax were winners in six and we saw three draws. eight games with over 2,5 goals, two matches with under 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

J. Hornkamp 2 goals

M. de Waal 1 goals

FC Den Bosch missing players

Jong Ajax missing players