A good game and three points is the only event that will suffice for the Willem II followers in this Koning Willem II Stadion battle with Jong Ajax, seeing as they have a robust lead on the opposition in the Eerste Divisie standings.
- Willem II have the fewest conceded goals (10) at home in Eerste Divisie
- Jong Ajax have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
Jong Ajax could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Eerste Divisie game only four sleeps ago.
Willem II form and stats
The story so far in the Eerste Divisie for Willem II at their home stadium (Koning Willem II Stadion) is 7 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. Willem II has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Koning Willem II Stadion. We remember; it was NAC Breda.
The home team returns to Koning Willem II Stadion after drawing with Heracles (placed 2nd) on their last time out; the game ended 1-1. Verreth was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.12 out of 10. The defender Verreth served one assist, hit three key passes and won 6 of 7 duels.
Ahead of that match, Willem won a home game hosting FC Dordrecht (1-0).The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Willem II home games with this odds we find 4 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Looking at the victories, 0 matches were won by at least two goals.
A decent goal production from Willem II in their home games so far, with 19 goals from 12 league matches. Willem II are not conceding a lot of goals here at Koning Willem Stadion in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 12 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Jong Ajax form and stats
There's been little loot from Jong Ajax's travels as they have only collected 11 points from 12 away games in the Eerste Divisie. Jong Ajax only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 5 draws.
Godts, Fitz-Jim, Banel and Conceição scored in Jong Ajax's previous match, the home game against MVV Maastricht that ended 4-2. That victory was so needed for this club, after a horrific sequence of ten league rounds in a row not winning. A stark raving crazy match with heaps of goals last time out for Jong, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that fun game, will this fixture be as gleeful? Jong Ajax goalie Setford was high and low in the MVV Maastricht game, contributing six saves towards the victory. Fitz-Jim got a match rating of 8.43 in that game, top player of the team. Fitz-Jim scored one goal, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 56 successful passes (of 60 total).
A 2-4 defeat away at FC Den Bosch before that.Take note! Both teams have scored at least one goal in 13 of this club's last 15 league fixtures.
Jong are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 16 away goals from 12 games (in the league). The Jong Ajax manager Heitinga has some worries about the defense as 27 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
The latest recorded meeting between these teams is the Jong Ajax - Willem II 1-2 played previously this season. Willem II-Jong Ajax H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Willem II two wins, Jong Ajax zero wins, one draw. two of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  C. Kjelder Rasmussen 9 goals |   M. Svensson 6 goals |  J. Bokila 6 goals |
Willem II missing players
Jong Ajax missing players
| Willem II | Jong Ajax | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 12 | 25 |
| 11 | 7 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 40 | 19 | 7 | Scored | S | 4 | 16 | 42 |
| 27 | 10 | 3 | Conceded | C | 3 | 27 | 45 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 72% | 67% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 88% |
| 60% | 50% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 58% | 60% |
| 28% | 8% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 50% | 44% |
| 12% | 8% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 33% | 28% |
| 64% | 58% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 76% |
| 32% | 42% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 20% |
| 6.5 | 7 | 8.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
| 2.9 | 2.2 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.7 | 5 |
| 1.7 | 1.7 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 12.1 | 14.2 | 15.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 10.6 | 10.1 |
| 4.1 | 4.8 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 39% | 33% | 58% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | 38% |
| 8 | 6.5 | 5.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 14 | 11.2 |
| 3 | 2.2 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 6 | 4.6 |
- Jong Ajax have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Jong Ajax haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Willem II have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Willem II have the fewest conceded goals (10) at home in Eerste Divisie
- Willem II have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Willem II haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 25 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 60 | 27 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 33 | 57 |
| 2 | Heracles | 25 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 66 | 32 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 42 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 18 | 34 | 51 |
| 3 | Almere City | 25 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 36 | 29 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 43 |
| 4 | VVV-Venlo | 25 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 39 | 36 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 23 | 3 | 42 |
| 5 | Willem II | 25 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 40 | 27 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 40 |
| 6 | FC Eindhoven | 25 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 36 | 35 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 23 | 1 | 39 |
| 7 | Jong AZ | 25 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 43 | 39 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 22 | 4 | 38 |
| 8 | MVV Maastricht | 25 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 48 | 45 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 32 | 3 | 38 |
| 9 | Telstar | 25 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 26 | 30 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 10 | -4 | 36 |
| 10 | Roda JC Kerkrade | 25 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 34 | 34 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 0 | 34 |
| 11 | NAC Breda | 25 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 38 | 42 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 30 | -4 | 34 |
| 12 | ADO Den Haag | 25 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 31 | 35 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 18 | -4 | 34 |
| 13 | Jong PSV | 25 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 39 | 40 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 21 | -1 | 31 |
| 14 | Graafschap | 25 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 36 | 38 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 24 | -2 | 30 |
| 15 | Jong Ajax | 25 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 42 | 45 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 26 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 27 | -3 | 28 |
| 16 | FC Dordrecht | 25 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 29 | 40 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 22 | -11 | 26 |
| 17 | FC Den Bosch | 25 | 8 | 2 | 15 | 37 | 52 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 24 | 25 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 27 | -15 | 26 |
| 18 | Helmond Sport | 25 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 21 | 41 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 25 | -20 | 26 |
| 19 | FC Oss | 25 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 28 | 45 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 19 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 26 | -17 | 24 |
| 20 | Jong Utrecht | 25 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 26 | 43 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 29 | -17 | 20 |
