KNVB Beker betting previews: Predictions and stats for the PEC Zwolle - MVV Maastricht game

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.

PEC Zwolle form and stats

This is not the first game this season in the KNVB Beker for Zwolle, as the manager Schreuder led his troops to eliminate Graafschap, and reach the 2nd Round. PEC Zwolle participated in KNVB Beker the last season, where they reached the 2nd round.

PEC Zwolle's results here at MAC³PARK Stadion in the Eredivisie have been very modest with 1 victory, 2 draws and 5 defeats.

The Zwolle crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Fortuna Sittard here at MAC³PARK Stadion in a Eredivisie match. Zwolle's goalkeeper Lamprou was extremely busy against Fortuna Sittard, saving the team from a uglier defeat with a stunning seven saves. Kostas Lamprou, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.42 out of 10 in that game. Lamprou stopped the opponent with seven saves.

Preceding that game was the away draw at FC Groningen that finished 1-1.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as FC Twente are coming to town in four days.

Zwolle has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 3 goals from 8 games. 8 goals have been conceded.

MVV Maastricht form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated ACV in order to reach 2nd round of KNVB Beker. They also participated in KNVB Beker last season. This ended in the 8th finals.

There's been little loot from MVV Maastricht's travels as they have only collected 9 points from 9 away games in the Eerste Divisie. MVV Maastricht only have 3 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 0 draws.

MVV Maastricht are travelling again after losing away to Excelsior in their previous match (1-2). It's a concern for Maastricht that their keeper Matthys pulled off seven saves in the Excelsior game, but still couldn't rescue them from a loss. Midfield player Nicky Souren was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.62/10. Souren hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 46 successful passes (of 54 total).

A draw for Maastricht before that, at their own venue hosting FC Oss (1-1).

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Maastricht played away with similar odds. This revealed nine games. The visitors overcame the odds to win two times, one were draw and the home team won as expected six times.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting FC Emmen in just three days.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Maastricht as they have only managed to score 7 times from 9 away games in the league. The Maastricht manager Wels has some worries about the defense as 22 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Zwolle five wins, three draws and MVV Maastricht two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

M. Ntelo 7 goals

S. Blummel 5 goals

M. Remans 5 goals

PEC Zwolle missing players

MVV Maastricht missing players