Almere City and FC Emmen fans have their most treasured supporter outfits on for this first game week of a new Eredivisie Playoffs campaign. Let's go!
It's no vacation for neither Almere City nor FC Emmen as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Almere City form and stats
The previous season, Almere City's league results were 21 wins, 7 draws and 10 losses, providing 3rd position in the Eredivisie Playoffs. During these 38 matches they scored {58 goals} and conceded 41. Playing as the home team in the last season Almere City delivered 10-4-5 (win-draw-lost) with {29 goals} and 21 conceded.
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 Almere City have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 5 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 1 and lost 1.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Almere City, who have participated in one training match. Almere City have won 0 of these, drawn 1 and were beaten in 0 games.
FC Emmen form and stats
Let's have a look at how FC Emmen performed last season in the Eredivisie Playoffs: They landed a 16th position in the league table after playing out 6 victories, 10 draws and 18 defeats. In total they scored 33 and conceded {65 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 1 and lost 13 with 17/42 goals scored/conceded.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Emmen playing away and similar expectations, we found 10 relevant matches. Results were 5 FC Emmen wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats.
It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. FC Emmen have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeats from two fixtures.
Head 2 Head
FC Emmen have pulled off a sequence of 4 consecutive games without defeat (1-3-0) when playing Almere.Top Goalscorers
  J. Hilterman 14 goals |   O. ter Haar Romeny 11 goals | L. Duijvestijn 8 goals |
Almere City missing players
FC Emmen missing players
| Almere City | FC Emmen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 75% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 11.8 | 17 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 1 | 3.5 |
| 2.8 | 3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 7 | 6.5 |
| 2.5 | 3.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23.5 | 38 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 5.5 | 8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 23% | 25% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 9.5 | 8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 14 | 10.5 |
| 5 | 4.5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 1.5 |
| Almere City | Last season | FC Emmen | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 19 | Played | P | 17 | 34 | ||
| 21 | 10 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 1 | 10 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 13 | 18 | ||
| 58 | 29 | Scored | S | 17 | 33 | ||
| 41 | 21 | Conceded | C | 42 | 65 | ||
| 97% | 95% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | ||
| 71% | 74% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 94% | 79% | ||
| 47% | 53% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 71% | 56% | ||
| 26% | 26% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 53% | 41% | ||
| 18% | 16% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 24% | 18% | ||
| 47% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 71% | 56% | ||
| 39% | 32% | Clean Sheets | C S | 6% | 21% | ||
| 16% | 16% | Failed to Score | F T | 24% | 35% | ||
| 4.9 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 4.2 | ||
| 4.9 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.8 | 6.3 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.3 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 11.8 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 11.1 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.7 | ||
| 32% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 26% | ||
| 9 | 8.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.6 | 15.6 | ||
| 4 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 5 | ||
