Can TOP Oss beat Almere City in Frans Heesen Stadion clash?

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Competition: Netherlands Eerste Divisie
Competition: Sat 20.February
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Frans Heesen Stadion (4700 seats)

TOP Oss will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 22 points behind Almere City.

Insights:
  • Almere City have scored more than double the goals of TOP Oss.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for TOP Oss and Almere City.

7 - 7 - 9 with 41-50. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Almere City when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Almere City play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.

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TOP Oss form and stats

5-2-5 (win-draw-lost) are the Eerste Divisie numbers at home for TOP Oss so far this season.

TOP are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-3 away versus SC Cambuur. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Jong AZ in a game that was won 6-0.

A decent goal production from TOP in their home games so far, with 19 goals from 12 league matches. On the other hand, TOP Oss have conceded 16 goals.

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Almere City form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Eerste Divisie travels is 6 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Almere City have lost on their last two travels.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Almere, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-2 versus Helmond Sport (placed 11th). A 0-4 defeat away at NAC Breda before that.

Almere have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 29 goals from 12 away matches. Almere have conceded 28 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Almere City - TOP 3-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - two - six (TOP wins - draws - Almere City wins). As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Almere CityT. Verheydt
T. Verheydt
13 goals
TOP OssM. Remans
M. Remans
6 goals
TOP OssD. van der Heijden
D. van der Heijden
5 goals

TOP Oss missing players

Almere City missing players

TOP Oss Almere City
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
24 12 3 Played P 5 12 23
8 5 0 Won W 3 6 15
4 2 2 Drew D 1 3 5
12 5 1 Lost L 1 3 3
25 19 2 Scored S 16 29 51
36 16 4 Conceded C 11 28 30
96% 92% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
71% 75% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 92% 83%
50% 50% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 83% 65%
21% 42% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 80% 67% 39%
12% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 60% 42% 26%
33% 42% 33% BTTS BTTS 100% 83% 52%
33% 42% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 8% 43%
38% 25% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 8% 13%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.6 1.6 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.2 1.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.2 11.8 8.7 Shots (avg) S ( 13.8 13.2 13.4
4.8 5.1 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.8 6.1 5.9
22% 31% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 47% 40% 38%
Key stats in Eerste Divisie this season:
  • Almere City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Almere City have scored more than double the goals of TOP Oss.
  • Almere City haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 SC Cambuur 23 18 2 3 68 19 13 10 0 3 39 12 10 8 2 0 29 7 49 56
2 Graafschap 24 17 2 5 51 33 12 9 1 2 25 14 12 8 1 3 26 19 18 53
3 Almere City 23 15 5 3 51 30 11 9 2 0 22 2 12 6 3 3 29 28 21 50
4 NAC Breda 24 14 5 5 45 21 12 8 1 3 26 12 12 6 4 2 19 9 24 47
5 Go Ahead Eagles 24 13 5 6 33 18 12 5 3 4 14 10 12 8 2 2 19 8 15 44
6 NEC 23 12 5 6 40 27 11 6 3 2 20 10 12 6 2 4 20 17 13 41
7 Roda JC Kerkrade 24 10 8 6 45 32 12 6 4 2 24 13 12 4 4 4 21 19 13 38
8 FC Volendam 23 10 7 6 48 30 12 4 3 5 25 16 11 6 4 1 23 14 18 37
9 Telstar 24 9 6 9 42 35 12 4 3 5 26 19 12 5 3 4 16 16 7 33
10 Excelsior 24 9 3 12 45 43 12 4 1 7 23 25 12 5 2 5 22 18 2 30
11 Helmond Sport 23 7 8 8 32 35 12 5 2 5 18 18 11 2 6 3 14 17 -3 29
12 Jong Ajax 23 8 5 10 38 43 12 3 3 6 17 24 11 5 2 4 21 19 -5 29
13 TOP Oss 24 8 4 12 25 36 12 5 2 5 19 16 12 3 2 7 6 20 -11 28
14 FC Eindhoven 24 7 6 11 35 43 12 4 3 5 25 22 12 3 3 6 10 21 -8 27
15 Jong Utrecht 23 8 1 14 34 44 11 4 0 7 15 19 12 4 1 7 19 25 -10 25
16 Jong AZ 24 6 4 14 35 65 12 3 3 6 24 33 12 3 1 8 11 32 -30 22
17 Jong PSV 23 5 5 13 34 51 11 1 4 6 13 20 12 4 1 7 21 31 -17 20
18 MVV Maastricht 24 5 5 14 25 52 11 3 2 6 17 29 13 2 3 8 8 23 -27 20
19 FC Dordrecht 23 4 3 16 20 60 11 2 3 6 11 21 12 2 0 10 9 39 -40 15
20 FC Den Bosch 23 2 7 14 26 55 12 2 5 5 16 18 11 0 2 9 10 37 -29 13

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.