This match features two teams living in the basement of the Eredivisie, VVV-Venlo holding 13th place and Graafschap lying 16th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Graafschap have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 4-6-6 (win-draw-loss) from 16 matches.
VVV-Venlo form and stats
The story so far for VVV-Venlo at their home stadium (Seacon Stadion De Koel) is 6 wins, 3 draws and 6 defeats. With VVV-Venlo having lost three times in a row here, the pressure is increasing on the manager M. Steijn.VVV-Venlo manager M. Steijn and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Fortuna Sittard in the Eredivisie. Before that game, the home loss against Feyenoord with the scoreline 0-3.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does VVV-Venlo handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The win/draw/lost stats in these games are W2-D3-L3.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for VVV-Venlo as they are travelling to their away game against SC Heerenveen in the Eredivisie. That match is three days after this one.
The VVV-Venlo fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium, the tally being 20 in 15 matches. VVV-Venlo's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 21 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Graafschap form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Graafschap so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-11 (win-draw-lose). Graafschap seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?Two away games in a row for Graafschap, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus PSV in the Eredivisie. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against AZ.
Graafschap are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 10 wins, 14 draws and 18 defeats. From a total of 42 matches.
After this away game Graafschap return home for a Eredivisie game against FC Emmen. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Graafschap as they have only managed to score 11 times from 15 away games. Graafschap have conceded 37 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Graafschap - VVV-Venlo 1-2. VVV-Venlo-Graafschap H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: VVV-Venlo 6 wins, Graafschap 3 wins, 1 draw.Top Goalscorers
  P. Mlapa 11 goals / 2 assists |   Y. El Jebli 8 goals / 7 assists |  P. Joosten 6 goals / 3 assists |
VVV-Venlo missing players
Graafschap missing players
| VVV-Venlo | Graafschap | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 30 | 15 | Played | 15 | 30 |
| 36 | 20 | Scored | 11 | 34 |
| 55 | 21 | Conceded | 37 | 61 |
| 97% | 93% | Over 0.5 | 93% | 97% |
| 77% | 67% | Over 1.5 | 80% | 83% |
| 53% | 47% | Over 2.5 | 67% | 63% |
| 33% | 27% | Over 3.5 | 40% | 37% |
| 27% | 20% | Over 4.5 | 20% | 23% |
| 53% | 40% | Both teams to score | 27% | 43% |
| 20% | 33% | Clean Sheet | 20% | 17% |
| 30% | 33% | Failed To Score | 60% | 43% |
| 3.9 | 4.6 | Corners For (avg) | 3.2 | 4.3 |
| 6.4 | 4.8 | Corners Against (avg) | 6.5 | 5.4 |
| 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| 3 | 1 | Red Cards (total) | 2 | 4 |
- Graafschap is involved in more matches over 2.5 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 | D | P |
| 1 | Ajax | 30 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 106 | 28 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 62 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 44 | 18 | 78 | 74 |
| 2 | PSV | 30 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 89 | 23 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 52 | 5 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 37 | 18 | 66 | 74 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 30 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 65 | 37 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 41 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 24 | 24 | 28 | 56 |
| 4 | AZ | 30 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 58 | 36 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 22 | 22 | 52 |
| 5 | FC Utrecht | 30 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 54 | 43 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 29 | 11 | 47 |
| 6 | Heracles | 30 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 53 | 57 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 36 | 26 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 31 | -4 | 45 |
| 7 | Vitesse | 30 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 55 | 44 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 35 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 21 | 11 | 44 |
| 8 | Willem II | 30 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 53 | 59 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 24 | 27 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 29 | 32 | -6 | 43 |
| 9 | FC Groningen | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 34 | 36 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 21 | -2 | 42 |
| 10 | SC Heerenveen | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 58 | 65 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 32 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 35 | 33 | -7 | 37 |
| 11 | ADO Den Haag | 30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 46 | 57 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 29 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 28 | -11 | 36 |
| 12 | PEC Zwolle | 30 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 38 | 47 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 26 | 25 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 22 | -9 | 35 |
| 13 | VVV-Venlo | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 36 | 55 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 21 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 34 | -19 | 34 |
| 14 | Fortuna Sittard | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 46 | 70 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 27 | 21 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 49 | -24 | 31 |
| 15 | FC Emmen | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 35 | 69 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 31 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 38 | -34 | 29 |
| 16 | Graafschap | 30 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 34 | 61 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 24 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 37 | -27 | 26 |
| 17 | Excelsior | 30 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 35 | 69 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 33 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 36 | -34 | 26 |
| 18 | NAC Breda | 30 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 27 | 66 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 26 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 40 | -39 | 22 |
