FC Volendam vs De Graafschap match preview

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Competition: Netherlands Eerste Divisie
Competition: Sun 24.January
Match begins: 11:15 (UTC)
Venue: Kras Stadion (7384 seats)

FC Volendam will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 7 points behind De Graafschap.

Insights:
  • FC Volendam have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

This pitch has artifical turf, which is not De Graafschap's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf De Graafschap have performed like this: Played 20 matches resulting in 9 wins, 6 draws and 5 defeats with the goal stats 35-31 (scored/conceded).

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FC Volendam form and stats

Overall Eerste Divisie stats at home this season for FC Volendam are 4-3-3 (wins-draw-losses).

FC Volendam are confident in defense, having played 258 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

The Volendam crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-2 to PSV here at Kras Stadion in a KNVB Beker match. Before that, Volendam played out a Eerste Divisie draw 0-0 when visiting FC Dordrecht.

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 Volendam have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eight matches with the results: Won two, drawn two and lost four.

The Volendam manager W. Jonk has got the team scoring with 24 from 10 home games in the league. FC Volendam have conceded 10 in these home matches.

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De Graafschap form and stats

The visitors are W6-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Eerste Divisie.

It's the second away game in a row for De Graafschap, but there's smiles all around after the 3-1 victory versus Roda JC Kerkrade (placed 10th) in the Eerste Divisie last time out. Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Telstar.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Graafschap playing away and similar expectations, we found five relevant matches. Results were two De Graafschap wins, two draws and one defeat.

The travelling fans enjoy De Graafschap's attacking play in away games, having scored 19 goals in 10 league matches away. As for defending, De Graafschap rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 16 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

FC Volendam and De Graafschap have met before this season: De Graafschap - FC Volendam 2-5. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Volendam victories, five draws and three De Graafschap wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

De GraafschapR. Seuntjens
R. Seuntjens
12 goals
VolendamN. Doodeman
N. Doodeman
8 goals
De GraafschapE. Lieftink
E. Lieftink
8 goals

FC Volendam missing players

De Graafschap missing players

FC Volendam De Graafschap
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 3 10 20
9 4 0 Won W 2 6 13
7 3 2 Drew D 0 1 2
4 3 1 Lost L 1 3 5
44 24 3 Scored S 7 19 41
23 10 5 Conceded C 4 16 29
90% 90% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 90% 95%
70% 70% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 85%
50% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 60% 60%
45% 50% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 40% 45%
30% 30% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 30% 25%
55% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 67% 60% 55%
30% 30% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 30% 35%
25% 30% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 15%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0.8 0.3 0.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 0.9 1.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
17.9 19 16.7 Shots (avg) S ( 13 15.6 14.7
7.2 7.1 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.7 5.6 5.5
31% 34% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 35% 34% 37%
Key stats in Eerste Divisie this season:
  • FC Volendam have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.

  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 20 15 2 3 58 18 10 7 0 3 29 11 10 8 2 0 29 7 40 47
2 Almere City 20 14 5 1 47 24 10 8 2 0 19 2 10 6 3 1 28 22 23 47
3 De Graafschap 20 13 2 5 41 29 10 7 1 2 22 13 10 6 1 3 19 16 12 41
4 NAC Breda 20 11 4 5 36 18 10 6 1 3 20 11 10 5 3 2 16 7 18 37
5 Go Ahead Eagles 20 10 5 5 27 15 10 4 3 3 12 7 10 6 2 2 15 8 12 35
6 NEC 20 10 5 5 36 25 10 5 3 2 18 10 10 5 2 3 18 15 11 35
7 FC Volendam 20 9 7 4 44 23 10 4 3 3 24 10 10 5 4 1 20 13 21 34
8 Telstar 20 9 4 7 38 29 10 4 2 4 23 15 10 5 2 3 15 14 9 31
9 FC Eindhoven 20 7 6 7 32 35 10 4 3 3 25 19 10 3 3 4 7 16 -3 27
10 Roda JC Kerkrade 20 6 8 6 30 29 10 4 4 2 17 11 10 2 4 4 13 18 1 26
11 Jong Ajax 20 7 5 8 35 38 10 3 3 4 16 20 10 4 2 4 19 18 -3 26
12 Jong Utrecht 20 8 1 11 31 37 11 4 0 7 15 19 9 4 1 4 16 18 -6 25
13 TOP Oss 20 7 4 9 17 28 10 4 2 4 12 13 10 3 2 5 5 15 -11 25
14 Helmond Sport 20 6 6 8 28 32 10 4 1 5 15 16 10 2 5 3 13 16 -4 24
15 Excelsior 20 7 2 11 35 35 10 4 0 6 18 18 10 3 2 5 17 17 0 23
16 Jong PSV 20 5 5 10 31 39 10 1 4 5 12 18 10 4 1 5 19 21 -8 20
17 MVV Maastricht 20 4 4 12 22 47 9 2 1 6 14 27 11 2 3 6 8 20 -25 16
18 Jong AZ 20 4 3 13 27 53 10 1 3 6 18 29 10 3 0 7 9 24 -26 15
19 FC Dordrecht 20 3 3 14 18 51 10 2 3 5 11 16 10 1 0 9 7 35 -33 12
20 FC Den Bosch 20 2 5 13 19 47 10 2 4 4 13 14 10 0 1 9 6 33 -28 11

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.