National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Almere City or Go Ahead Eagles that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Eredivisie. That game was also an away game, at Vitesse. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Almere City form and stats
Last season their KNVB Beker adventure ended in the 2nd round.The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Eerste Divisie this season. Almere City have only managed 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses from their games here at Yanmar Stadion. It's trouble wherever Almere are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.
Almere's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 3-5 versus Jong PSV. A goal frenzy last time out for Almere, with a total of 8 goals in the match against Jong PSV. Fun stuff to watch! Maarten Pouwels, who usually features in attack, was the highest rated performer for the team in that fixture, and was presented with a rating of 8.32 (out of 10). Pouwels scored two goals, served one assist and hit one key pass.
A Eerste Divisie defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at FC Den Bosch.This is expected to be a close game, with Almere City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Almere City as a small favourite), we find seven games. Almere has won four of these, drawn zero and lost three.
Goals decide football matches and Almere are scoring many of them at home; 12 on target from 6 league matches. Almere are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (14 from 6 played).
Go Ahead Eagles form and stats
Eagles was sent out of KNVB Beker in the 8th finals last season.1-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Go Ahead Eagles in their Eredivisie matches away.
Two travels in a row for Eagles, whose manager K. van Wonderen could celebrate last time after the Eredivisie win against Vitesse. The end of the last match, against Vitesse, was very satisfying as Luuk Brouwers scored the winning goal deep into overtime. Midfield player Luuk Brouwers was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.22/10. Brouwers scored one goal, served one assist and hit two key passes.
A home win before that, celebrating 4-2 vs Heracles.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Go Ahead Eagles in our archives, and the results are: one win for Eagles, two draws and four defeats.
A new game in only four days for Go Ahead Eagles, the Eredivisie home match versus Fortuna Sittard. Busy days.
Eagles find the net regularly in their away games. 5 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Eagles concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.
Head 2 Head
Head to head numbers (for the former ten meetings): Almere won two games, three matches ended with a draw and Go Ahead Eagles have five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / fourTop Goalscorers
  I. Alhaft 4 goals |  M. Pouwels 4 goals |   L. Brouwers 4 goals |
Almere City missing players
Go Ahead Eagles missing players
| Almere City | Go Ahead Eagles | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Won | W | 4 | 11 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Drew | D | 2 | 7 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 40 | 21 | Scored | S | 11 | 39 | ||
| 48 | 24 | Conceded | C | 18 | 32 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 88% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 60% | 68% | ||
| 72% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 40% | 48% | ||
| 40% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 30% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 30% | 24% | ||
| 68% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 52% | ||
| 12% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 30% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 30% | 24% | ||
| 5.7 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.3 | ||
| 4.7 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 4.5 | ||
| 0.9 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 0.8 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 11.4 | 12.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 10 | ||
| 4.5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 4.1 | ||
| 36% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 38% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | FC Volendam | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 15 | 27 |
| 2 | Excelsior | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 25 |
| 3 | Graafschap | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 23 |
| 4 | FC Emmen | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 22 |
| 5 | Jong Ajax | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 27 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 19 |
| 6 | Jong AZ | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 19 |
| 7 | Roda JC Kerkrade | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 18 |
| 8 | Jong Utrecht | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 18 |
| 9 | ADO Den Haag | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| 10 | FC Eindhoven | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -2 | 17 |
| 11 | VVV-Venlo | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -2 | 16 |
| 12 | Telstar | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -7 | 16 |
| 13 | NAC Breda | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 15 |
| 14 | MVV Maastricht | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 32 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 20 | -17 | 15 |
| 15 | Jong PSV | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -2 | 14 |
| 16 | Helmond Sport | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -4 | 14 |
| 17 | FC Den Bosch | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -7 | 13 |
| 18 | FC Oss | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -8 | 10 |
| 19 | Almere City | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -5 | 9 |
| 20 | FC Dordrecht | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -9 | 7 |
| 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 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 35 | 25 |
| 2 | PSV | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 21 |
| 3 | FC Utrecht | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 20 |
| 4 | Feyenoord | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 19 |
| 5 | Willem II | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 18 |
| 6 | Vitesse | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -7 | 16 |
| 7 | FC Twente | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 15 |
| 8 | NEC | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 | -5 | 14 |
| 9 | SC Heerenveen | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -4 | 13 |
| 10 | Go Ahead Eagles | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 | -6 | 13 |
| 11 | AZ | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 12 |
| 12 | SC Cambuur | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 25 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 14 | -7 | 12 |
| 13 | RKC Waalwijk | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 10 |
| 14 | Heracles | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 10 |
| 15 | FC Groningen | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -5 | 10 |
| 16 | Fortuna Sittard | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -8 | 9 |
| 17 | Sparta Rotterdam | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -10 | 7 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 12 | -13 | 4 |