It's time for Eerste Divisie and MVV Maastricht - Jong Utrecht. In this pre-match guide you'll find numbers, results, analysis, trends and stories!
- MVV Maastricht have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Jong Utrecht have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
Jong Utrecht could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Eerste Divisie game only four sleeps ago.
MVV Maastricht form and stats
30 points is a decent return from 14 Eerste Divisie games here at De Geusselt for MVV Maastricht. The data says 9 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses.
MVV Maastricht faced defeat in their previous match, away at NAC Breda (1-4). Midfielder van Bommel was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.03 (out of ten) in that game. Bommel scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Ahead of that match, Maastricht lost 0-1 at home to VVV-Venlo.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 MVV Maastricht have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 4 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 0 and lost 0.
If you like betting on "both teams to score": A review of the 12 latest league games highlights that 10 of them had at least one goal from each side.
Goals decide football matches and MVV Maastricht are scoring many of them at home; 33 on target from 14 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. 16 goals have been conceded.
Jong Utrecht form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Jong Utrecht so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-9 (win-draw-lose). Three has not been a lucky number for Utrecht as they have been defeated three times in a row since the NAC Breda match.
Jong Utrecht failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Jong PSV (placed 14th) that ended with defeat 0-1. Goalkeeper Gadellaa got the top player rating of the team with 7.3/10. Gadellaa saved a penalty.
Preceding that, the 1-3 home loss versus Roda JC Kerkrade.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Jong Utrecht playing away and similar expectations, we found 5 relevant matches. Results were 1 Utrecht win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Jong Utrecht have scored 15 goals in 13 league games away. For Utrecht, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Believe it or not, the last time Jong Utrecht kept a "clean sheet" was also against this opposition, 14 league matches ago (Jong Utrecht - MVV Maastricht 3-0). H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): MVV Maastricht four wins, two draws and Jong Utrecht four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  R. van Bommel 10 goals | K. Kostons 8 goals |  D. Sanches Fernandes 8 goals |
MVV Maastricht missing players
Jong Utrecht missing players
| MVV Maastricht | Jong Utrecht | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 5 | Played | P | 5 | 13 | 28 |
| 12 | 9 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| 52 | 33 | 17 | Scored | S | 5 | 15 | 27 |
| 52 | 16 | 4 | Conceded | C | 12 | 31 | 49 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 86% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 79% |
| 75% | 64% | 80% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 60% | 77% | 50% |
| 57% | 64% | 80% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 60% | 38% | 25% |
| 32% | 29% | 40% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 23% | 14% |
| 71% | 71% | 80% | BTTS | BTTS | 80% | 77% | 50% |
| 14% | 14% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 14% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 23% | 43% |
| 3.4 | 3 | 2.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.9 | 4.5 |
| 5.9 | 5.3 | 5.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 5 | 4.8 |
| 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 9.3 | 9.9 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.8 | 9 | 10.3 |
| 4 | 4.5 | 5.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 47% | 52% | 59% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 33% | 28% |
| 13.8 | 12 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.4 | 11.2 | 11.6 |
| 5.2 | 3.7 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 5 | 4.6 |
- All of Jong Utrecht's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Jong Utrecht have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Jong Utrecht have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Jong Utrecht have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Jong Utrecht haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- MVV Maastricht have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- MVV Maastricht have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Jong Utrecht have scored away.
- MVV Maastricht 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 | PEC Zwolle | 29 | 21 | 3 | 5 | 79 | 32 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 45 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 34 | 15 | 47 | 66 |
| 2 | Heracles | 28 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 78 | 32 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 51 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 27 | 18 | 46 | 60 |
| 3 | VVV-Venlo | 29 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 47 | 38 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 24 | 9 | 51 |
| 4 | Almere City | 28 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 40 | 32 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 8 | 49 |
| 5 | FC Eindhoven | 29 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 43 | 41 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 23 | 2 | 46 |
| 6 | Willem II | 28 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 46 | 33 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 23 | 19 | 13 | 44 |
| 7 | NAC Breda | 29 | 13 | 4 | 12 | 49 | 52 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 21 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 31 | -3 | 43 |
| 8 | MVV Maastricht | 28 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 52 | 52 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 33 | 16 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 19 | 36 | 0 | 41 |
| 9 | Roda JC Kerkrade | 29 | 12 | 4 | 13 | 40 | 39 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 19 | 1 | 40 |
| 10 | Jong AZ | 29 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 48 | 48 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 31 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 29 | 0 | 40 |
| 11 | De Graafschap | 29 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 46 | 39 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 25 | 24 | 7 | 39 |
| 12 | ADO Den Haag | 29 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 35 | 41 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 21 | -6 | 39 |
| 13 | Telstar | 28 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 28 | 39 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 18 | -11 | 39 |
| 14 | Jong PSV | 29 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 44 | 48 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 24 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 24 | -4 | 35 |
| 15 | Helmond Sport | 28 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 26 | 43 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 27 | -17 | 32 |
| 16 | Jong Ajax | 29 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 51 | 56 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 24 | 36 | -5 | 31 |
| 17 | FC Oss | 28 | 9 | 3 | 16 | 33 | 49 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 20 | 22 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 27 | -16 | 30 |
| 18 | FC Den Bosch | 28 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 37 | 69 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 25 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 44 | -32 | 27 |
| 19 | FC Dordrecht | 28 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 31 | 48 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 23 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 25 | -17 | 26 |
| 20 | Jong Utrecht | 28 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 27 | 49 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 15 | 31 | -22 | 20 |
