Perhaps a welcome break from league football as FC Volendam & FC Emmen face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the KNVB Beker. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
4-4-7 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for FC Emmen when playing away games on artifical turf, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has grass). Their goal statistics from those 15 matches are 14-23 (scored/conceded).
FC Volendam form and stats
Last season, Volendam's KNVB Beker journey ended in the 8th finals.13 points is a decent return from 6 Eerste Divisie games here at Kras Stadion for FC Volendam. The data says 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. Volendam haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus ADO Den Haag, 74 days ago.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Volendam, as their goalkeeper Joey Roggeveen has completely shut out the opponents for 258 minutes in the Eerste Divisie.
Happy days for Volendam in their previous game, a Eerste Divisie match away at Jong AZ that ended with a 1-0 victory. Midfield player Daryl van Mieghem got a match rating of 8.82 in that game, the max score being 10. Mieghem scored one goal, hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Previous to that game, a Eerste Divisie home match hosting NAC Breda in a game that was won 1-0.Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as FC Dordrecht are coming to town in three days.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (14 in 6 games), Volendam's attacking play is working. Volendam have conceded 8 in these home matches.
FC Emmen form and stats
They also participated in KNVB Beker last season. This ended in the 8th finals.FC Emmen have an excellent away record in the Eerste Divisie so far with 5-1-1 from 7 games. Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes FC Emmen's record of four away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the Helmond Sport game.
Two travels in a row for Emmen, whose manager D. Lukkien could celebrate last time after the Eerste Divisie win against Roda JC Kerkrade. Goalkeeper Michael Brouwer was absolutely vital in the Emmen victory against Roda JC Kerkrade, making nine saves. Michael Brouwer was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.32. The agile goalkeeper Brouwer stopped the opponent with nine saves.
Preceding that game was the away Eerste Divisie victory against FC Oss with the score of 2-1.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting VVV-Venlo in just three days.
Emmen find the net regularly in their away games. 10 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. It's not easy to score on Emmen as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): FC Volendam two wins, zero draws and FC Emmen eight victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Mühren 9 goals |  D. van Mieghem 7 goals |   J. Hilterman 5 goals |
FC Volendam missing players
FC Emmen missing players
| FC Volendam | FC Emmen | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 10 | Won | W | 11 | 17 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | ||
| 55 | 31 | Scored | S | 30 | 53 | ||
| 33 | 17 | Conceded | C | 13 | 27 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 84% | ||
| 72% | 85% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 79% | 68% | ||
| 48% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 12% | ||
| 64% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 24% | ||
| 5.2 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 5.8 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.8 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 12.2 | 12.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.4 | 11.7 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 5 | ||
| 38% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 39% | ||
| 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 |