Balanced ball game between FC Emmen and Heracles expected

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sun 25.April
Match begins: 10:15 (UTC)
Venue: De Oude Meerdijk (8600 seats)

FC Emmen hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 21 points and a 17th position in the Eredivisie table. Visiting Heracles holds 8th place with 39 pts.

Insights:
  • FC Emmen have the most conceded goals in the first half (29) in Eredivisie
  • Heracles have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

This pitch has grass, which is not Heracles's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Heracles have performed like this: Played 28 matches resulting in 5 wins, 5 draws and 18 defeats with the goal stats 22-58 (scored/conceded).

Emmen are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. Heracles is no longer fighting for a cause; they can neither go up or down this season.

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FC Emmen form and stats

FC Emmen's struggle is real here at De Oude Meerdijk with only 10 points collected from 14 Eredivisie games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-4-8.

Happy days for Emmen in their previous game, a Eredivisie match away at Fortuna Sittard (placed 12th) that ended with a 3-1 victory. Ahead of that match, Emmen won a home game hosting RKC Waalwijk (3-1).

This is expected to be a close game, with FC Emmen perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with FC Emmen as a small favourite), we find five games. Emmen has won three of these, drawn zero and lost two.

FC Emmen has scored 20 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as FC Emmen have allowed the opposition to score 35 goals here at De Oude Meerdijk. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Heracles form and stats

The visitors are W4-D3-L7 on the road this term. That's in the Eredivisie.

Heracles are travelling after their nice 4-0 home win in the Eredivisie against Willem II (placed 15th). A 0-3 defeat away at PSV before that.

As mentioned above, Heracles was the only team on the pitch versus Willem II in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Heracles in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Heracles, one draw and one defeat.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Heracles as they have only managed to score 11 times from 14 away games in the league. For Heracles, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Heracles - FC Emmen 4-0. As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's two Emmen victories, one draw and six Heracles wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

HeraclesR. Vloet
R. Vloet
14 goals
EmmenM. de Leeuw
M. de Leeuw
9 goals
HeraclesS. Bakış
S. Bakış
6 goals

FC Emmen missing players

Heracles missing players

Total First Half Second Half
FC Emmen Heracles
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 14 4 Played P 5 14 29
4 2 0 Won W 1 4 11
9 4 2 Drew D 1 3 6
16 8 2 Lost L 3 7 12
30 20 6 Scored S 6 11 35
58 35 10 Conceded C 13 28 43
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 97%
79% 93% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 79% 79%
52% 64% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 64% 55%
45% 64% 75% Over 3.5 O 3.5 60% 29% 28%
24% 50% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 14% 10%
62% 79% 100% BTTS BTTS 60% 36% 41%
10% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 21% 28%
34% 21% 0% Failed to Score F T 40% 50% 34%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.7 1.4
5 2 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
10.9 11.7 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7 7.4 10.4
3.7 3.8 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.4 2.3 3.6
28% 38% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 34% 34%
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • FC Emmen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • FC Emmen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • FC Emmen have the most conceded goals in the first half (29) in Eredivisie
  • FC Emmen haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Heracles have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Heracles have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 Ajax 28 23 3 2 86 20 13 11 1 1 43 12 15 12 2 1 43 8 66 72
2 PSV 29 18 7 4 64 30 14 11 2 1 32 9 15 7 5 3 32 21 34 61
3 AZ 29 18 7 4 66 38 15 10 2 3 33 18 14 8 5 1 33 20 28 61
4 Vitesse 29 17 5 7 46 28 15 10 4 1 23 8 14 7 1 6 23 20 18 56
5 Feyenoord 29 15 9 5 58 29 14 8 5 1 32 10 15 7 4 4 26 19 29 54
6 FC Groningen 29 13 7 9 35 33 15 7 5 3 16 11 14 6 2 6 19 22 2 46
7 FC Utrecht 28 11 10 7 45 36 15 5 6 4 23 22 13 6 4 3 22 14 9 43
8 Heracles 29 11 6 12 35 43 15 7 3 5 24 15 14 4 3 7 11 28 -8 39
9 FC Twente 29 9 10 10 42 40 14 3 5 6 18 20 15 6 5 4 24 20 2 37
10 SC Heerenveen 29 9 10 10 39 40 14 6 4 4 21 14 15 3 6 6 18 26 -1 37
11 Sparta Rotterdam 29 9 7 13 40 46 14 4 3 7 25 27 15 5 4 6 15 19 -6 34
12 Fortuna Sittard 29 10 4 15 40 52 15 4 2 9 21 30 14 6 2 6 19 22 -12 34
13 PEC Zwolle 29 7 11 11 38 46 15 5 6 4 18 17 14 2 5 7 20 29 -8 32
14 RKC Waalwijk 29 6 8 15 27 44 15 4 4 7 18 21 14 2 4 8 9 23 -17 26
15 Willem II 29 5 7 17 31 61 14 4 2 8 19 30 15 1 5 9 12 31 -30 22
16 VVV-Venlo 29 6 4 19 39 75 15 3 3 9 17 39 14 3 1 10 22 36 -36 22
17 FC Emmen 29 4 9 16 30 58 14 2 4 8 20 35 15 2 5 8 10 23 -28 21
18 ADO Den Haag 29 2 10 17 22 64 14 0 6 8 13 29 15 2 4 9 9 35 -42 16

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Ajax 28 23 3 2 86 20 13 11 1 1 43 12 15 12 2 1 43 8 66 72
2 PSV 29 18 7 4 64 30 14 11 2 1 32 9 15 7 5 3 32 21 34 61
3 AZ 29 18 7 4 66 38 15 10 2 3 33 18 14 8 5 1 33 20 28 61
4 Vitesse 29 17 5 7 46 28 15 10 4 1 23 8 14 7 1 6 23 20 18 56
5 Feyenoord 29 15 9 5 58 29 14 8 5 1 32 10 15 7 4 4 26 19 29 54
6 FC Groningen 29 13 7 9 35 33 15 7 5 3 16 11 14 6 2 6 19 22 2 46
7 FC Utrecht 28 11 10 7 45 36 15 5 6 4 23 22 13 6 4 3 22 14 9 43
8 Heracles 29 11 6 12 35 43 15 7 3 5 24 15 14 4 3 7 11 28 -8 39
9 FC Twente 29 9 10 10 42 40 14 3 5 6 18 20 15 6 5 4 24 20 2 37
10 SC Heerenveen 29 9 10 10 39 40 14 6 4 4 21 14 15 3 6 6 18 26 -1 37
11 Sparta Rotterdam 29 9 7 13 40 46 14 4 3 7 25 27 15 5 4 6 15 19 -6 34
12 Fortuna Sittard 29 10 4 15 40 52 15 4 2 9 21 30 14 6 2 6 19 22 -12 34
13 PEC Zwolle 29 7 11 11 38 46 15 5 6 4 18 17 14 2 5 7 20 29 -8 32
14 RKC Waalwijk 29 6 8 15 27 44 15 4 4 7 18 21 14 2 4 8 9 23 -17 26
15 Willem II 29 5 7 17 31 61 14 4 2 8 19 30 15 1 5 9 12 31 -30 22
16 VVV-Venlo 29 6 4 19 39 75 15 3 3 9 17 39 14 3 1 10 22 36 -36 22
17 FC Emmen 29 4 9 16 30 58 14 2 4 8 20 35 15 2 5 8 10 23 -28 21
18 ADO Den Haag 29 2 10 17 22 64 14 0 6 8 13 29 15 2 4 9 9 35 -42 16

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The Eredivisie is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. 18 teams play two fixtures against each other to form the final league table and decide which team wins the Dutch national championship. The phrase Eredivisie translates to “Honour Division”. The “big three” in Dutch football are Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord.