Eerste Divisie preview: Can Telstar edge out victory against Jong AZ?

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Competition: Netherlands Eerste Divisie
Competition: Fri 13.January
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: BUKO Stadion (5200 seats)

Telstar are putting faith in their home following to aid them during this match hosting Jong AZ. Who wins at BUKO Stadion?

Insights:
  • Telstar have the the worst goal difference (-6) at home in Eerste Divisie
  • Jong AZ haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Telstar form and stats

3 victories, 3 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what Telstar have to build on here at BUKO Stadion in the Eerste Divisie.

The fans hope that Telstar will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-3 away defeat in the KNVB Beker fixture against FC Twente.

Prior to that, an away loss at FC Oss in the Eerste Divisie.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Telstar handle that role? We have found 4 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 1 win, 0 draws and 3 defeats.

Telstar have conceded 15 from these games.

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Jong AZ form and stats

Playing away, Jong AZ have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 5 defeats in the Eerste Divisie this season. Jong has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Jong AZ play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Jong Utrecht (placed 20th). Those three points felt sweet as this side had gone three league matches without victory. Attacker Barasi got a player rating of 8.25 in the game. "Man of the match" Barasi scored two goals and had 17 successful passes (of 21 total).

Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Heracles.

We have checked recent matches where Jong AZ have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 9 games were 1 victory, 0 draws and 8 defeats.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Jong manager Martens as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against FC Oss.

The visiting Jong AZ have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 10 goals from 9 games. 13 goals have been conceded by Jong AZ in these games.

Head 2 Head

Surprisingly enough, Jong AZ have found the net in every league match they've featured in since NOT scoring against today's hosts; the Jong - Telstar 0-0 game seven game weeks ago. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Telstar five wins, four draws and Jong AZ one victory. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Jong AZS. Allouch
S. Allouch
5 goals
TelstarG. Plet
G. Plet
4 goals
Jong AZI. Griffith
I. Griffith
4 goals

Telstar missing players

Jong AZ missing players

Telstar Jong AZ
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 4 8 18
5 3 1 Won W 2 3 8
7 3 0 Drew D 1 1 4
6 3 1 Lost L 1 4 6
17 9 2 Scored S 7 9 30
25 15 2 Conceded C 6 11 23
89% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
72% 67% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 83%
50% 67% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 50% 56%
17% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 25% 44%
6% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
50% 44% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 38% 56%
28% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 12% 22%
33% 44% 50% Failed to Score F T 25% 50% 28%
 
4.1 4.6 3.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 4.4 4.8
4.3 3.9 5 Corners against (avg) C A 5 6.1 5.6
1.6 1.3 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.8 0.9 1.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
8.4 9.9 10 Shots (avg) S ( 8.2 8.6 10.7
3.4 3.7 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.8 3.8 5.4
27% 27% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 37% 30% 31%
 
9.6 10.2 12.5 Shots against (avg) S A 11.8 11.2 11.8
4.2 4.6 5.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 5.6 5.1
Key stats in Eerste Divisie this season:
  • Jong AZ haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Telstar have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Telstar have the the worst goal difference (-6) at home in Eerste Divisie

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Heracles 19 14 2 3 56 23 9 8 1 0 35 9 10 6 1 3 21 14 33 44
2 PEC Zwolle 18 13 2 3 44 21 10 6 2 2 22 15 8 7 0 1 22 6 23 41
3 MVV Maastricht 18 10 4 4 33 26 10 7 3 0 25 10 8 3 1 4 8 16 7 34
4 FC Eindhoven 19 9 6 4 31 24 9 5 3 1 19 10 10 4 3 3 12 14 7 33
5 Almere City 19 10 2 7 30 25 9 6 1 2 19 10 10 4 1 5 11 15 5 32
6 VVV-Venlo 19 9 5 5 29 27 10 3 4 3 11 12 9 6 1 2 18 15 2 32
7 Willem II 19 8 6 5 28 21 9 4 2 3 10 9 10 4 4 2 18 12 7 30
8 Jong AZ 19 8 4 7 31 25 10 5 3 2 21 12 9 3 1 5 10 13 6 28
9 Roda JC Kerkrade 18 7 3 8 27 26 8 4 1 3 15 12 10 3 2 5 12 14 1 24
10 Jong PSV 19 6 6 7 31 31 9 4 1 4 14 13 10 2 5 3 17 18 0 24
11 NAC Breda 19 7 3 9 25 32 10 4 2 4 11 11 9 3 1 5 14 21 -7 24
12 Jong Ajax 19 5 8 6 34 33 10 3 4 3 21 14 9 2 4 3 13 19 1 23
13 De Graafschap 19 6 4 9 28 32 10 4 2 4 14 13 9 2 2 5 14 19 -4 22
14 Telstar 18 5 7 6 17 25 9 3 3 3 9 15 9 2 4 3 8 10 -8 22
15 ADO Den Haag 19 5 5 9 21 30 9 2 3 4 12 13 10 3 2 5 9 17 -9 20
16 FC Oss 19 6 2 11 20 31 10 4 1 5 13 15 9 2 1 6 7 16 -11 20
17 FC Den Bosch 19 6 1 12 27 37 10 4 0 6 16 20 9 2 1 6 11 17 -10 19
18 FC Dordrecht 19 5 4 10 23 36 9 3 1 5 13 16 10 2 3 5 10 20 -13 19
19 Helmond Sport 19 6 1 12 15 32 9 4 0 5 11 13 10 2 1 7 4 19 -17 19
20 Jong Utrecht 19 4 3 12 19 32 9 2 2 5 6 10 10 2 1 7 13 22 -13 15

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.