Excelsior vs Almere City Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Excelsior

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Excelsior will be wanting a better result here after a 3-1 Eredivisie defeat last time out to Heracles Almelo.

The only player to score from Excelsior was Nikolas Agrafiotis (19'). Bryan Limbombe (54'), Justin Hoogma (60') and Mohamed Sankoh (85') scored for Heracles Almelo.

Excelsior have not been the best at stopping their opponents lately, but they have also managed to convert their own chances into goals. Looking at their last 6 games, Excelsior have seen their goal breached in 5 of them in addition to managing to get on the scoresheet in 6 of those matches.

Taking a look at their past results, Excelsior:

• haven't won against Almere City in their previous 4 league games.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 league matches at home.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 league matches.

Almere City

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of FC Zwolle in Eredivisie competition, Almere City will be hoping to turn things around here.

The only scorer from Almere City was Joey Jacobs (96'). Davy van den Berg (4') and Apostolos Vellios (97') scored for FC Zwolle.

Over the course of their last half-dozen outings, Almere City have bagged a total of 8 goals. Almere City have also scored on each one of those occasions. Over that period, they have had 15 goals go into their own net. With no two games being the same, we will just have to wait and see if the trend will be maintained in this next game.

Taking a look at their past results, Almere City:

• haven't been defeated by Excelsior in away games against them for the last 2 league games.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 31/03/2014 shows us that Excelsior have won 1 of them & Almere City 4, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 33 overall which averages out at 5.5 goals per meeting.

The last league fixture between these clubs was Eerste Divisie match day 33 on 01/04/2022 and the score finished Almere City 3-0 Excelsior.

In that game, Almere City managed 46% possession and 21 attempts on goal with 9 on target. The goals were scored by Jeffry Puriël (51'), Ilias Alhaft (54') and Lance Duijvestijn (69').

On the other side, Excelsior had 9 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Dennis Higler.

ℹ️ Team News: Excelsior

Mike van Duinen (Unknown Injury), Lennard Hartjes (Knee Injury), Jacky Donkor (Knee Injury), Kik Pierie (Ankle Injury), Raphaël Eyongo (Ankle Injury), Couhaib Driouech (Hamstring Injury) and Adrian Fein (Ill) won’t be able to feature for Excelsior manager Marinus Dijkhuizen.

We think that Roodzwarten will probably employ a 4-3-3 formation this time featuring Stijn van Gassel, Siebe Horemans, Casper Widell, Sven Nieuwpoort, Arthur Zagre, Cisse Sandra, Redouan El Yaakoubi, Julian Baas, Oscar Uddenaes, Nikolas Agrafiotis and D. Sanches Fernandes.

📋 Team News: Almere City

Almere City boss Alex Pastoor has not got a full squad to pick from. Kornelius Hansen (Unknown Injury), Danny Post (Unknown Injury), Faiz Mattoir (Cruciate Ligament Injury) and Milan Corryn (Unknown Injury) miss out here.

We believe De Zwarte Schapen seem most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 system, going with Nordin Bakker, Hamdi Akujobi, Damian van Bruggen, Theo Barbet, Sherel Floranus, Peer Koopmeiners, Alvaro Pena, Rajiv van La Parra, Lance Duijvestijn, Yoann Cathline and Thomas Robinet.

💡 Prediction

Almere City are certainly able to find the back of the net against this Excelsior team, however that probably won’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We can see a close game with a 2-1 win for Excelsior at full-time. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 08:20 13/09/2023