It's the KNVB Beker: FC Emmen and SC Heerenveen face off

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There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

FC Emmen form and stats

FC Emmen participated in KNVB Beker the last season, where they reached the 1st round.

FC Emmen's results here at De Oude Meerdijk in the Eredivisie have been very modest with 0 victories, 3 draws and 6 defeats. All in all it has been a very rough period for Emmen who hasn’t won a league-game in their last 17 attempts. Their previous win was against VVV-Venlo, 318 days ago. Emmen are slowly digging their own grave here at De Oude Meerdijk with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in nine attempts. The last victory here came in the VVV-Venlo match.

Emmen's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-4 versus Vitesse. A Eredivisie defeat was the result before that one, 0-4 away at Heracles.

Dennis Telgenkamp had a busy but productive day in the Vitesse match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented.

There will be little rest for Emmen after this match as they are travelling to ADO Den Haag for a Eredivisie game in only three days.

Emmen are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 9 games. This has been a stadium of sighs so far as Emmen have let the opposition score 28 times, an average of more than three per game. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

SC Heerenveen form and stats

Heerenveen was sent out of KNVB Beker in the quarter-finals last season.

The story so far for the visiting team on their Eredivisie travels is 2 wins, 5 draws and 2 defeats. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for SC Heerenveen, who have now gone ten games without a victory. The Sparta Rotterdam game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against RKC Waalwijk in the Eredivisie.

As mentioned above, Heerenveen drew the match against VVV-Venlo. Manager J. Jansen brought on Benjamin Nygren to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Heerenveen manager J. Jansen as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Heracles.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Heerenveen have scored 13 goals in 9 league games away. In the opposite end, Heerenveen have conceded 15 goals in their away games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's two Emmen victories, one draw and four SC Heerenveen wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

H. Veerman 11 goals

M. de Leeuw 6 goals

M. Araujo Blanco 4 goals

FC Emmen missing players

SC Heerenveen missing players