Soccer betting preview: SC Cambuur welcomes Sparta Rotterdam in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sun 16.January
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Cambuurstadion (10000 seats)

In total; 18 league rounds have been played and SC Cambuur are 15 points on top of Sparta Rotterdam. How will it turn out?

Insights:
  • SC Cambuur have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sparta Rotterdam have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

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SC Cambuur form and stats

When playing at home in the Eredivisie, SC Cambuur have managed 4 wins, 0 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 9 games. The Cambuur manager de Jong might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.

An away draw last time out for SC Cambuur, facing Heracles in a game that ended 1-1. The Cambuur goalkeeper Stevens was crucial in the match against Heracles last time out, making six saves. Breij was able to secure the draw 1-1 in the game against Heracles after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? Schouten, defender, was given a rating of 7.44/10 in that game, top of the team. Schouten won 5 of 5 duels.

Ahead of that match, Cambuur lost 1-2 at home to SC Heerenveen.

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

SC Cambuur have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Cambuurstadion with 17 goals in 9 league matches. SC Cambuur are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (20 from 9 played).

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Sparta Rotterdam form and stats

There's been little loot from Sparta Rotterdam's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 8 away games in the Eredivisie. Sparta Rotterdam only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws. Sparta Rotterdam have had a generous will to share for some time now, running a streak of three draws in a row.

There were no winners in Sparta Rotterdam's previous match, a Eredivisie home game that ended 1-1 vs RKC Waalwijk (placed 15th). The attacker Crooij got a match rating of 7.82 in that game. Crooij scored one goal and hit two key passes.

A draw for Rotterdam before that, at their own venue hosting Vitesse (2-2).

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

The visitors have scored 6 goals from 8 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Rotterdam's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 13 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

Sparta Rotterdam - Cambuur 0-4 was the result in these squads' latest h2h game, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four SC Cambuur victories, one draw and five Sparta Rotterdam wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

CambuurJ. Jacobs
J. Jacobs
5 goals
SC CambuurR. Uldriķis
R. Uldriķis
5 goals
SC CambuurA. Bangura
A. Bangura
3 goals

SC Cambuur missing players

Sparta Rotterdam missing players

SC Cambuur Sparta Rotterdam
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 9 1 Played P 3 8 18
9 4 1 Won W 0 1 2
1 0 0 Drew D 1 2 7
8 5 0 Lost L 2 5 9
32 17 2 Scored S 0 6 15
39 20 1 Conceded C 6 13 27
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 88% 94%
89% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 75% 72%
78% 89% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 39%
50% 44% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 25% 28%
33% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
72% 89% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 38% 50%
17% 11% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 11%
11% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 44%
 
3.4 3.7 3 Corners for (avg) C F 2.3 3 3.8
6.9 6.8 10 Corners against (avg) C A 5.7 5.9 5.4
1.2 1.1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.8 1.7
2 2 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
10.7 10.7 10 Shots (avg) S ( 9.7 8.5 10.4
4.5 4.3 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3 3.4
40% 44% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 25% 25%
 
16.3 15.6 14 Shots against (avg) S A 15.3 14.9 11.9
6.1 6.2 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 5.2 4.8
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • All of SC Cambuur's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • SC Cambuur have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • SC Cambuur have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • SC Cambuur have scored more than double the goals of Sparta Rotterdam.
  • SC Cambuur haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sparta Rotterdam have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Sparta Rotterdam have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sparta Rotterdam have won significantly less corners away then 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 PSV 18 14 1 3 46 24 9 8 0 1 27 12 9 6 1 2 19 12 22 43
2 Ajax 18 13 3 2 56 4 10 7 1 2 38 3 8 6 2 0 18 1 52 42
3 Feyenoord 18 12 3 3 42 17 9 7 1 1 24 9 9 5 2 2 18 8 25 39
4 Vitesse 18 10 3 5 25 25 9 4 2 3 10 13 9 6 1 2 15 12 0 33
5 AZ 18 10 2 6 35 23 9 7 1 1 24 10 9 3 1 5 11 13 12 32
6 FC Twente 18 9 5 4 28 22 8 4 3 1 10 6 10 5 2 3 18 16 6 32
7 FC Utrecht 18 8 5 5 33 23 9 6 3 0 23 7 9 2 2 5 10 16 10 29
8 SC Cambuur 18 9 1 8 32 39 9 4 0 5 17 20 9 5 1 3 15 19 -7 28
9 NEC 18 7 4 7 24 26 8 2 2 4 9 10 10 5 2 3 15 16 -2 25
10 SC Heerenveen 18 7 4 7 20 25 10 3 2 5 11 17 8 4 2 2 9 8 -5 25
11 Go Ahead Eagles 18 6 3 9 19 29 9 4 0 5 13 13 9 2 3 4 6 16 -10 21
12 FC Groningen 18 4 7 7 20 27 8 1 6 1 7 6 10 3 1 6 13 21 -7 19
13 Heracles 18 5 3 10 21 26 10 5 2 3 15 12 8 0 1 7 6 14 -5 18
14 Willem II 18 5 3 10 18 36 9 3 1 5 7 15 9 2 2 5 11 21 -18 18
15 RKC Waalwijk 18 3 7 8 19 30 9 3 1 5 8 16 9 0 6 3 11 14 -11 16
16 Sparta Rotterdam 18 2 7 9 15 27 10 1 5 4 9 14 8 1 2 5 6 13 -12 13
17 Fortuna Sittard 18 3 4 11 19 46 8 2 2 4 10 21 10 1 2 7 9 25 -27 13
18 PEC Zwolle 18 1 3 14 9 32 9 1 2 6 4 11 9 0 1 8 5 21 -23 6

Read more about Eredivisie

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.