📏 Form Guide

Almere City

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Almere City won’t want a repeat of their last result here following the 2-1 Eredivisie defeat last time out to SC Heerenveen.

In that game, Almere City had 46% possession and 13 shots on goal with 3 on target. For Almere City, the goalscorers were Junior Kadile (9') and Jochem Ritmeester van de Kamp (36' Own goal). SC Heerenveen had 14 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Jacob Trenskow (14') scored for SC Heerenveen.

It has been all too rare in recent times where Almere City haven’t conceded. The reality is that Almere City have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 11 goals on the way.

A look at their previous results shows us that Almere City:

• haven't beaten Go Ahead Eagles in their previous 4 league games.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches at home.
• are without a home win in the past 5 league matches. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Go Ahead Eagles

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Previously, Go Ahead Eagles drew 1-1 in the KNVB Beker tie with AZ.

The only player to score from Go Ahead Eagles was Mats Deijl (90'). Troy Parrott (54') was the scorer for AZ. The game was won 4-2 by Go Ahead Eagles on penalties.

Over the course of their previous 6 outings, Go Ahead Eagles have helped themselves to a total of 10 goals. Go Ahead Eagles have also not failed to score in every single one of those games. In that time, they’ve had 9 goals scored by their opponents. That sort of trend isn’t assured to be carried forward here, however.

Taking a look at their past results, Go Ahead Eagles:

• are winless against Almere City when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head clashes going back to 21/11/2020 tells us that Almere City have won 1 of these & Go Ahead Eagles 3, with the number of drawn results being 2.

A sum of 13 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 4 of them from De Zwarte Schapen and 9 being from Trots aan de IJssel. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The last league game featuring these sides was Eredivisie match day 13 on 23/11/2024 when it finished Go Ahead Eagles 3-0 Almere City.

That time, Go Ahead Eagles managed 57% possession and 20 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. The goalscorers were Mats Deijl (14'), Oliver Edvardsen (32') and Victor Edvardsen (50').

Almere City got 8 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Danny Makkelie.

🗞️ Team News: Almere City

Àlex Carbonell (Hamstring injury) and Jochem Ritmeester van de Kamp (Head injury) are unavailable for Almere City boss Jeroen Rijsdijk.

It’s our opinion that De Zwarte Schapen should go for a 4-2-3-1 system, beginning the first half with Nordin Bakker, Hamdi Akujobi, Marvin Martins, James Lawrence, Vasilios Zagaritis, Thom Haye, J. Ritmeester van, Kornelius Hansen, Adi Nalic, Junior Kadile and Thomas Robinet.

📰 Team News: Go Ahead Eagles

Go Ahead Eagles boss Paul Simonis has to choose a team with limited availability. Jakob Breum (Foot injury), Dean James (Hamstring injury) and Søren Tengstedt (Broken foot) will miss out on this game.

It’s our belief that Trots aan de IJssel seem likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, starting Jari De Busser, Mats Deijl, Gerrit Nauber, Joris Kramer, Aske Adelgaard, Enric Llansana, Evert Linthorst, Oliver Antman, Victor Edvardsen, Mathis Suray and Milan Smit.

⚡ Prediction

We envisage that Go Ahead Eagles and Almere City should be able to score more than one goal each in what is shaping up to be a fairly even contest.

Let’s see how this one goes, but it looks this could have goals and the potential for a draw. We therefore think that it’s going to be a 2-2 score draw at the end of the match.

Peter Guest, 14:02 27/04/2025