Important battle in the cellar of the Eerste Divisie, with both Helmond Sport and Almere City suffering more tension than pleasure. This game is a real "six-pointer" with the team playing at home positioned 16th and the away team in 19th place.
- Helmond Sport have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Almere City have the most dropped points from leading position (19) in Eerste Divisie
This has all the signs of an appealing game with lots of action and energy as both squads are well revitalized since they last played a game. Get this show on the road!
Helmond's stadium, SolarUnie Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. Almere City 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 Almere City when playing on artifical turf; 5 wins, 6 draws and 12 losses from 23 matches. They have scored 42 goals in these games and conceded 52.
Helmond Sport form and stats
3-1-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Eerste Divisie numbers at home for Helmond Sport so far this season.
The fans are hoping that Helmond Sport will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-4 away loss in the KNVB Beker game against FC Groningen. As you see from the result above, Helmond Sport suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. Midfield player Jellert Van Landschoot got a match rating of 7.03 in that game, the max score being 10. Landschoot dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 27 successful passes (of 32 total).
A 2-2 draw away in the Eerste Divisie before that, with Telstar the opponent.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Helmond, as the Eerste Divisie home game vs Roda JC Kerkrade is only four days away.
The Helmond Sport fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 6 in 6 matches. 6 goals have been conceded.
Almere City form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Almere City so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-4 (win-draw-lose). With the Almere losing streak of four defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking.
Almere failed to get anything from their last game, a KNVB Beker home match vs Go Ahead Eagles that ended with defeat 0-2.
The game before that, in the Eerste Divisie, was lost at home, a 3-5 defeat against Jong PSV.Almere are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 9 times in 6 away games so far. The Almere manager G. Verbeek has some worries about the defense as 12 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the prior ten meetings between these two contenders are: three wins for Helmond, one draw and six wins for Almere City. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.Top Goalscorers
  J. van Landschoot 6 goals |   I. Alhaft 4 goals |  M. Pouwels 4 goals |
Helmond Sport missing players
Almere City missing players
| Helmond Sport | Almere City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 9 | 21 |
| 17 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 12 | 26 |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 58% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 83% | 92% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 75% |
| 33% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 42% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 83% | 83% |
| 33% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 17% | 8% |
| 5.1 | 4.2 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 6.8 | 5.2 |
| 5.3 | 4.8 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 4.8 | 5.5 |
| 1.3 | 0.8 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.3 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 6.3 | 4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 9.2 | 10.7 |
| 3.1 | 2.3 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 35% | 43% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 36% | 40% |
- Almere City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Almere City have the most dropped points from leading position (19) in Eerste Divisie
- Almere City have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Almere City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Helmond Sport have won significantly less corners at home than 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 | FC Volendam | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 15 | 27 |
| 2 | Excelsior | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 25 |
| 3 | Graafschap | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 23 |
| 4 | FC Emmen | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 22 |
| 5 | Jong Ajax | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 27 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 19 |
| 6 | Jong AZ | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 19 |
| 7 | Roda JC Kerkrade | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 18 |
| 8 | Jong Utrecht | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 18 |
| 9 | ADO Den Haag | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| 10 | FC Eindhoven | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -2 | 17 |
| 11 | VVV-Venlo | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -2 | 16 |
| 12 | Telstar | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -7 | 16 |
| 13 | NAC Breda | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 15 |
| 14 | MVV Maastricht | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 32 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 20 | -17 | 15 |
| 15 | Jong PSV | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -2 | 14 |
| 16 | Helmond Sport | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -4 | 14 |
| 17 | FC Den Bosch | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -7 | 13 |
| 18 | FC Oss | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -8 | 10 |
| 19 | Almere City | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -5 | 9 |
| 20 | FC Dordrecht | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -9 | 7 |