National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's FC Emmen or Excelsior Maassluis that keep their silverware dream alive.
Emmen have less rest than Excelsior Maassluis in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Eerste Divisie game only four days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus FC Dordrecht, was also a home game here at De Oude Meerdijk. The away team is better rested.
It should be mentioned that Excelsior Maassluis play their home matches on artifical turf, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on grass. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Excelsior Maassluis on grass are 13 victories, 5 draws and 13 defeats from 31 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 50-51. You can compare this with overall results below.
FC Emmen form and stats
Action has already taken place for Emmen in KNVB Beker as they have defeated FC Volendam to reach the 2nd Round. Last season, FC Emmen's KNVB Beker journey ended in the 8th finals.FC Emmen are steadily winning Eerste Divisie games and points here at De Oude Meerdijk. 6 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats is the summary from 9 games. After failing to beat Excelsior here at De Oude Meerdijk, Emmen has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.
Emmen's last game was hosting FC Dordrecht and winning 2-1. Emmen enjoyed their 2-1 win against FC Dordrecht and the result could have been even better, as they hit the posts three times. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Lukkien when Scholte scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 62nd minute. A late climax in the match against FC Dordrecht as the winning goal came four minutes into overtime; scored by Scholte. Defender Miguel Araujo got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.4/10. Araujo scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 8 of 11 duels.
Heartbreak before that as FC Emmen lost 0-1 at Jong Ajax's place.There will be little rest for Emmen after this match as they are travelling to MVV Maastricht for a Eerste Divisie game in only three days.
Emmen have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at De Oude Meerdijk with 17 goals in 9 league matches. Emmen are not conceding a lot of goals here at De Oude Meerdijk in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 9 matches.
Excelsior Maassluis form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated OFC Oostzaan and Westlandia in order to reach 2nd round of KNVB Beker. Excelsior Maassluis was sent out of KNVB Beker in the 2nd preliminary round last season.There's been little loot from Excelsior Maassluis's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 7 away games in the Tweede Divisie. Excelsior Maassluis only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 0 draws. Excelsior seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?
The attacking players of Excelsior have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 239 minutes.
Excelsior are travelling again after losing away to HHC in their previous match (0-1).
A 0-2 defeat away at Katwijk before that.The visitors come into this game as huge outsiders. This role is not totally unknown to them, as they have played 20 away matches before with similar winning odds. These games have ended with eight wins, seven draws and five defeats. three games were lost by at least two goals margin.
Excelsior are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 7 games (in the league). Excelsior have conceded 11 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. Hilterman 8 goals | R. Mendes 5 goals | J. Assehnoun 4 goals |
FC Emmen missing players
Excelsior Maassluis missing players
| FC Emmen | Excelsior Maassluis | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 12 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 7 | 11 | ||
| 49 | 21 | Scored | S | 18 | 44 | ||
| 18 | 7 | Conceded | C | 19 | 39 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 72% | 70% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 92% | ||
| 56% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 64% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 44% | ||
| 12% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 20% | ||
| 44% | 30% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 30% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 24% | ||
| 5.3 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 4.8 | ||
| 0.8 | 0.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.9 | 1.1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10.5 | 11.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.6 | 8.3 | ||
| 5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.6 | ||
| 35% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 49% | 52% | ||
| 7.8 | 6.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.8 | 9.4 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.9 | ||
| 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 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 47 | 25 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 11 | 22 | 42 |
| 2 | Excelsior | 19 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 47 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 12 | 22 | 41 |
| 3 | FC Emmen | 19 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 29 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 36 |
| 4 | Jong Ajax | 19 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 44 | 31 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 36 |
| 5 | ADO Den Haag | 19 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 44 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 21 | 35 |
| 6 | Graafschap | 19 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 31 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 33 |
| 7 | Roda JC Kerkrade | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 37 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 30 |
| 8 | FC Eindhoven | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 33 | 27 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 30 |
| 9 | NAC Breda | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 31 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 27 |
| 10 | FC Den Bosch | 19 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 22 | 34 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 17 | -12 | 25 |
| 11 | VVV-Venlo | 19 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 21 | 25 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 13 | -4 | 23 |
| 12 | MVV Maastricht | 19 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 22 | 39 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 22 | -17 | 23 |
| 13 | Jong PSV | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 29 | 32 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 18 | -3 | 22 |
| 14 | Jong Utrecht | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 24 | 31 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 14 | -7 | 22 |
| 15 | Jong AZ | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | -6 | 21 |
| 16 | Helmond Sport | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 12 | -12 | 19 |
| 17 | Telstar | 19 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 22 | 39 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 16 | -17 | 19 |
| 18 | Almere City | 19 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 31 | 40 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 21 | -9 | 17 |
| 19 | FC Oss | 19 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 31 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 14 | -11 | 15 |
| 20 | FC Dordrecht | 19 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 22 | 48 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 29 | -26 | 10 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Katwijk | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 24 | 36 |
| 2 | Jong Sparta | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 26 |
| 3 | AFC | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 24 |
| 4 | Rijnsburgse Boys | 14 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 29 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 22 |
| 5 | Koninklijke HFC | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 22 |
| 6 | HHC | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 22 |
| 7 | Quick Boys | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 21 |
| 8 | De Treffers | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 20 |
| 9 | Noordwijk | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -2 | 20 |
| 10 | Excelsior Maassluis | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 11 | -2 | 19 |
| 11 | TEC | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 28 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -11 | 17 |
| 12 | Volendam II | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 29 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 14 | -1 | 15 |
| 13 | Spakenburg | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 29 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 19 | -4 | 15 |
| 14 | Scheveningen | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -9 | 14 |
| 15 | IJsselmeervogels | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -6 | 13 |
| 16 | Kozakken Boys | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -7 | 11 |
| 17 | ASWH | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 12 | -4 | 9 |
| 18 | GVVV | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -18 | 5 |