Helmond Sport will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 24 points behind Almere City.
- Helmond Sport haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Almere City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Almere City play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artifical turf. Recent stats for Almere City when playing on artifical turf are 7 wins, 7 draws and 8 defeats from 22 matches. They have scored 40 goals and conceded 48 times in these games.
Helmond Sport form and stats
The story so far in the Eerste Divisie for Helmond Sport at their home stadium (SolarUnie Stadion) is 4 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats.
The home supporters saw a 1-1 draw versus Telstar in the Eerste Divisie last time out and are looking for a win here. Before that, Helmond played out a draw 1-1 when visiting MVV Maastricht.
The Helmond fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 16 in 11 matches. It's worth mentioning that 10 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 17 goals have been conceded.
Almere City form and stats
6-3-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Almere City in their Eerste Divisie matches away.
Almere play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-4 to NAC Breda (placed 4th). A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs FC Dordrecht.
Almere lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.
Almere are a potent attacking force on the road with their 28 goals in 11 league games. The Almere manager O. Tobiasen has some worries about the defense as 26 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Almere City - Helmond 2-0, played this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Helmond Sport won two games, two matches ended with a draw and Almere City has six wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  T. Verheydt 12 goals |  K. Loukili 8 goals | L. Duijvestijn 6 goals |
Helmond Sport missing players
Almere City missing players
| Helmond Sport | Almere City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 11 | 22 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 8 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | 5 | 4 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 30 | 16 | 2 | Scored | S | 15 | 28 | 50 |
| 34 | 17 | 11 | Conceded | C | 9 | 26 | 28 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 86% | 82% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 91% | 82% |
| 55% | 45% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 82% | 64% |
| 32% | 27% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 73% | 41% |
| 9% | 18% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 75% | 45% | 27% |
| 64% | 55% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 82% | 50% |
| 14% | 18% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 9% | 45% |
| 27% | 27% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 9% | 14% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.5 | 12 | 11.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.8 | 13.1 | 13.4 |
| 4.8 | 5.7 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.8 | 6 | 5.9 |
| 28% | 25% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 56% | 42% | 39% |
- Almere City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Almere City haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Helmond Sport haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | 22 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 65 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 36 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 7 | 46 | 53 |
| 2 | Almere City | 22 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 50 | 28 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 26 | 22 | 50 |
| 3 | Graafschap | 22 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 47 | 31 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 17 | 16 | 47 |
| 4 | NAC Breda | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 41 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 22 | 41 |
| 5 | NEC | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 39 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 41 |
| 6 | Go Ahead Eagles | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 29 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 14 | 38 |
| 7 | FC Volendam | 21 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 45 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 13 | 18 | 34 |
| 8 | Telstar | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 41 | 32 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 9 | 33 |
| 9 | Roda JC Kerkrade | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 37 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 32 |
| 10 | Jong Ajax | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 37 | 41 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 19 | -4 | 29 |
| 11 | Excelsior | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 42 | 40 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 27 |
| 12 | FC Eindhoven | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 34 | 39 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 19 | -5 | 27 |
| 13 | Helmond Sport | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 34 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 17 | -4 | 26 |
| 14 | Jong Utrecht | 22 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 32 | 41 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 22 | -9 | 25 |
| 15 | FC Oss | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 17 | -14 | 25 |
| 16 | Jong PSV | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 33 | 46 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 26 | -13 | 20 |
| 17 | Jong AZ | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 32 | 57 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 31 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 26 | -25 | 19 |
| 18 | MVV Maastricht | 22 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 23 | 50 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 28 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 22 | -27 | 17 |
| 19 | FC Den Bosch | 22 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 24 | 52 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 37 | -28 | 13 |
| 20 | FC Dordrecht | 22 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 18 | 59 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 38 | -41 | 12 |