Jong PSV - Almere City: Small difference between teams in Eerste Divisie clash

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Competition: Netherlands Eerste Divisie
Competition: Mon 10.January
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sportcomplex De Herdgang (2500 seats)

On paper it looks like advantage Jong PSV in this match versus Almere City, but the away side will fight to the bitter end. Here's the Tipsway match guide!

Insights:
  • Almere City have the most dropped points from leading position (29) in Eerste Divisie

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Jong PSV form and stats

Jong PSV have played 10 Eerste Divisie games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-2-4 (wins-draws-losses).

The home team returns to Sportcomplex De Herdgang after being equal after 90 minutes with Telstar (placed 17th) on their last time out; the Eerste Divisie game ended 0-0. The goalie Delanghe was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.45 out of ten. Delanghe stopped the opponent with three saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.

Prior to that, an away loss at FC Volendam.

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

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Jong PSV as they are travelling to their away game against VVV-Venlo in the Eerste Divisie. That match is four days after this one.

Jong have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Sportcomplex De Herdgang with 16 goals in 10 league matches. Jong PSV's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 14 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Almere City form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Almere City so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-5 (win-draw-lose).

Almere failed to get anything from their last game, a Eerste Divisie home match vs FC Volendam (placed 1st) that ended with defeat 2-3. Almere goalkeeper Etemadi was happy for a fine day's work vs FC Volendam, but in spite of making nine saves the defeat could not be avoided. Etemadi (goalkeeper) was the best performer with a rating of 8.42. Etemadi stopped the opponent with nine saves.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus NAC Breda that ended 1-1.

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

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Roda JC Kerkrade in just four days.

Almere City has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 16 goals from 10 games. The Almere manager Bakens has some worries about the defense as 21 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

The contenders have faced each other before in this season, with the result Almere City - Jong 3-5 logged in the official records. Last ten meetings involving these sides: Jong won three, Almere City triumphed in six and we saw one draw. seven games with more than 2,5 goals, three matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Almere CityL. Duijvestijn
L. Duijvestijn
9 goals
Almere CityJ. Arweiler
J. Arweiler
8 goals
JongJ. Bakayoko
J. Bakayoko
6 goals

Jong PSV missing players

Almere City missing players

Jong PSV Almere City
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 4 10 20
6 4 1 Won W 1 2 4
5 2 1 Drew D 1 3 5
9 4 1 Lost L 2 5 11
29 16 6 Scored S 6 16 33
32 14 5 Conceded C 7 21 43
90% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
75% 70% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 90% 95%
60% 60% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 70% 70%
40% 50% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 30% 40%
25% 30% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 30% 30%
60% 60% 67% BTTS BTTS 75% 80% 75%
15% 20% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 10%
35% 30% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 20% 15%
 
4.8 4.3 6.3 Corners for (avg) C F 6.2 5.9 5.2
4.5 5 3.7 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 5.1 5.7
1.2 1.6 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.2 1.2 1.1
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.1 10.2 13.3 Shots (avg) S ( 11 10.4 10.2
4.7 5 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.8 3.9 4
31% 32% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 41% 41%
 
8.9 9 5.3 Shots against (avg) S A 12.5 11.4 10.6
3.8 3.6 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5 5
Key stats in Eerste Divisie this season:
  • Almere City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Almere City have the most conceded goals in the second half (27) in Eerste Divisie
  • Almere City have the most dropped points from leading position (29) in Eerste Divisie
  • Almere City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 20 13 6 1 50 27 10 7 2 1 26 14 10 6 4 0 24 13 23 45
2 Excelsior 20 13 3 4 48 26 9 5 2 2 21 13 11 8 1 2 27 13 22 42
3 FC Emmen 20 12 3 5 30 15 9 6 0 3 17 6 11 6 3 2 13 9 15 39
4 ADO Den Haag 20 14 2 4 48 24 10 8 0 2 26 12 10 6 2 2 22 12 24 38
5 Jong Ajax 20 11 4 5 45 32 10 6 2 2 25 15 10 5 2 3 20 17 13 37
6 Graafschap 20 11 3 6 33 23 10 3 3 4 10 14 10 8 0 2 23 9 10 36
7 Roda JC Kerkrade 20 8 7 5 38 28 10 3 4 3 16 14 10 5 3 2 22 14 10 31
8 FC Eindhoven 20 9 4 7 34 28 10 6 3 1 19 11 10 3 1 6 15 17 6 31
9 NAC Breda 20 7 6 7 32 27 9 5 3 1 17 7 11 2 3 6 15 20 5 27
10 FC Den Bosch 20 8 2 10 25 37 10 6 0 4 12 17 10 2 2 6 13 20 -12 26
11 Jong PSV 20 6 5 9 29 32 10 4 2 4 16 14 10 2 3 5 13 18 -3 23
12 VVV-Venlo 20 7 2 11 23 28 11 5 1 5 16 15 9 2 1 6 7 13 -5 23
13 MVV Maastricht 20 7 2 11 22 40 11 4 2 5 15 18 9 3 0 6 7 22 -18 23
14 Jong AZ 20 6 4 10 19 25 11 4 3 4 11 12 9 2 1 6 8 13 -6 22
15 Jong Utrecht 20 6 4 10 24 33 10 3 0 7 9 19 10 3 4 3 15 14 -9 22
16 Helmond Sport 20 5 5 10 18 30 10 3 2 5 9 17 10 2 3 5 9 13 -12 20
17 Telstar 20 4 8 8 22 39 10 1 4 5 12 23 10 3 4 3 10 16 -17 20
18 FC Oss 20 4 6 10 23 33 10 2 4 4 14 17 10 2 2 6 9 16 -10 18
19 Almere City 20 4 5 11 33 43 10 2 2 6 17 22 10 2 3 5 16 21 -10 17
20 FC Dordrecht 20 2 5 13 23 49 10 1 4 5 11 20 10 1 1 8 12 29 -26 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.