📏 Form Guide

Almere City

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Almere City will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 3-1 Eredivisie losing effort in their last game against FC Twente.

In that match, Almere City managed 48% possession and 7 shots on goal with 2 on target. The only player to score for Almere City was Kornelius Hansen (73'). On the other side, FC Twente had 15 shots at goal with 8 on target. Mathias Kjølø (10'), Sem Steijn (52') and Daan Rots (84') scored for FC Twente.

It’s been all too rare in recent games that Almere City have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Almere City have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 9 goals along the way. With no two games being the same, it remains to be seen whether that trend shall continue on in this match.

Ahead of this meeting, Almere City are without a home win in the past 5 matches in the league. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

SC Heerenveen

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against PSV Eindhoven in Eredivisie competition, SC Heerenveen and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, SC Heerenveen had 33% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 2 on target. For their opponents, PSV got 16 attempts at goal with 11 of them on target. Guus Til (7', 30'), Malik Tillman (9', 11'), Joey Veerman (44'), Johan Bakayoko (52'), Luuk de Jong (71') and Patrick van Aanholt (83') scored for PSV Eindhoven.

Showing their predisposition for action-packed matches, goals have been seen as many as 28 times in the last six games in which SC Heerenveen have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 4.67 goals per fixture. Their opponents have managed 18 of these goals.

Going into this one, SC Heerenveen are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

The last league game featuring these clubs was Eredivisie match day 20 on 01/12/2023 which ended up with the score at SC Heerenveen 3-0 Almere City.

The referee was Richard Martens.

ℹ️ Team News: Almere City

Stijn Keller (Shoulder injury), Danny Post (Ankle injury), Adi Nalic (unknown injury) and Yann Kitala (Muscle injury) won’t be available for Almere City manager Alex Pastoor.

It’s our opinion that De Zwarte Schapen will probably employ a 5-3-2 formation, beginning the first half with Samuel Radlinger, Christopher Mamengi, Theo Barbet, Joey Jacobs, J. Ritmeester van, Yoann Cathline, Stije Resink, Peer Koopmeiners, Alvaro Pena, Kornelius Hansen and Rajiv van La Parra.

🗞️ Team News: SC Heerenveen

Due to a completely injury-free squad ready to go, the SC Heerenveen boss Kees van Wonderen doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game.

We’re of the thinking that De Superfriezen could decide to utilise a 4-2-3-1 system by sending out Mickey van der Hart, Hussein Ali, Sven van Beek, Pawel Bochniewicz, Mats Koehlert, Thom Haye, Simon Olsson, Patrik Waalemark, Anas Tahiri, Che Nunnely and Pelle van Amersfoort.

💭 Prediction

Our assessment is that SC Heerenveen and Almere City should both get enough opportunities to score, although it’s hard to separate the two.

Let’s see how it plays out, but a draw is looking likely to us. That is why we are leaning toward a close game with a 1-1 score at the end of this game.

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

Andre Moura, 17:10 03/05/2024