TOP Oss and De Graafschap have both delivered a "par" performance so far this season, to use a golf expression. Both teams occupy mid-table places in the Eerste Divisie.
- TOP Oss have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- De Graafschap have the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Eerste Divisie
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting De Graafschap have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 11-6-4 (win-draw-loss) from 21 matches.
TOP Oss form and stats
When playing at home in the Eerste Divisie, TOP Oss have managed 2 wins, 1 draw and suffered 1 defeat from 4 games.
The TOP crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 2-3 to FC Volendam here at Frans Heesen Stadion in a Eerste Divisie match. Norbert Alblas had a busy but productive day in the FC Volendam match. Despite making seven saves the loss could not be prevented. The attacking player Joshua Sanches was named "man of the match" for TOP with the rating of 8.14/10. Sanches scored two goals and had 18 successful passes (of 22 total).
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Roda JC Kerkrade (0-2).Goals are plentiful at Frans Heesen Stadion in the league this season as TOP has scored 10 goals here in 4 home games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the TOP Oss defense is not exactly impregnable. 7 goals conceded from 4 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
De Graafschap form and stats
It's gone fairly well in the Eerste Divisie away games so far for De Graafschap with six points collected from three matches.
There were no winners in De Graafschap's previous match, a Eerste Divisie home game that ended 2-2 vs Jong Utrecht (placed 3rd). The draw against Jong Utrecht came from a losing position. The Graafschap manager R. Robbemond brought on Philip Brittijn as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level. Midfield player Rick Dekker was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.61/10. Dekker scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 29 successful passes (of 36 total).
A home win before that, celebrating 3-1 vs Excelsior.With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, De Graafschap are regular goalscorers on their travels. De Graafschap have conceded 3 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
TOP Oss-De Graafschap H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: TOP Oss two wins, De Graafschap six wins, two draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  J. Konings 3 goals |   R. Stuij van den Herik 2 goals | J. Sanches 2 goals |
TOP Oss missing players
De Graafschap missing players
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | 10 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 62% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 75% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 38% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 38% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 5.2 | 4.2 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 5 | 6.4 |
| 5.4 | 5.8 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 6 | 3.9 |
| 1.4 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.7 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.2 | 12.2 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 19 | 13.3 | 13.2 |
| 3.5 | 5.5 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 9 | 6.7 | 5.8 |
| 39% | 45% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 30% | 28% |
- All of De Graafschap's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of TOP Oss's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- De Graafschap have scored in all their away matches so far.
- De Graafschap have the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Eerste Divisie
- De Graafschap have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- De Graafschap haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- TOP Oss have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- TOP Oss have scored in all their home matches so far.
- TOP Oss have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- TOP Oss 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 | Excelsior | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 16 |
| 2 | FC Volendam | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 15 |
| 3 | Jong Utrecht | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | Jong AZ | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| 5 | FC Emmen | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 |
| 6 | ADO Den Haag | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 13 |
| 7 | De Graafschap | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 13 |
| 8 | FC Eindhoven | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 13 |
| 9 | VVV-Venlo | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| 10 | MVV Maastricht | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | -7 | 12 |
| 11 | Roda JC Kerkrade | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 11 |
| 12 | TOP Oss | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -2 | 10 |
| 13 | Jong Ajax | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 14 | Almere City | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 9 |
| 15 | Telstar | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 9 |
| 16 | FC Den Bosch | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -6 | 9 |
| 17 | Jong PSV | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 7 |
| 18 | NAC Breda | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -5 | 6 |
| 19 | FC Dordrecht | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 6 |
| 20 | Helmond Sport | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -7 | 6 |