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Almere City

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Almere City will be looking for an improved result here after the 1-0 Eredivisie loss in their previous game against FC Zwolle.

In that game, Almere City had 40% possession and 14 shots on goal with 6 on target. The scorer for Almere City was James Lawrence (78' Own goal). On the other side, PEC Zwolle had 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

It has been all too rare in recent times where Almere City haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Almere City have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 17 goals on the way. We shall soon see whether or not that trend can be sustained here.

Leading up to this clash, Almere City:

• have not been beaten in the league by Willem II in their last 2 matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 11 matches in the league. Something needs to change.

Willem II

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against PSV Eindhoven in Eredivisie competition, Willem II will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Willem II managed 26% possession and 7 shots at goal with 0 on target. For their opponents, PSV got 12 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Ricardo Pepi (49', 64') scored for PSV Eindhoven.

Peter Maes's Willem II have slotted home a total of 9 times throughout their latest 6 matches. The aggregate of goals that they have conceded during those same clashes comes to 8.

Ahead of this meeting, Willem II have not won away from home in their last 6 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 08/11/2013 shows that Almere City have won 1 of these games & Willem II 4, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

A combined sum of 19 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 5 of them from De Zwarte Schapen and 14 coming from Tricolores. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The last league game between these sides was Eerste Divisie match day 20 on 15/01/2023 and the score finished Almere City 1-0 Willem II.

The referee was Clay Ruperti.

📰 Team News: Almere City

It seems likely that De Zwarte Schapen should make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation this time, handing starts to Nordin Bakker, Hamdi Akujobi, James Lawrence, Joey Jacobs, Vasilios Zagaritis, J. Ritmeester van, Alex Carbonell, Kornelius Hansen, Thomas Robinet, Junior Kadile and Baptiste Guillaume.

ℹ️ Team News: Willem II

Willem II manager Peter Maes has some current player fitness concerns. Erik Schouten (unknown injury), Dani Mathieu (Knock) and Niels van Berkel (Knee surgery) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We reckon that Tricolores will likely utilise a 3-5-2 formation, starting the game with Thomas Didillon, Mickael Tirpan, Raffael Behounek, Tommy St. Jago, Nick Doodeman, Jesse Bosch, Boris Lambert, Ringo Meerveld, R. T. Sigurgeirsson, Cisse Sandra and Kyan Vaesen.

🧠 Prediction

We are of the inclination to think that Willem II and Almere City could both end up scoring in what appears to be a good match-up, with little separating these two teams.

There should be little in it, and a draw looks to be quite a realistic result. We therefore think that it’s going to be a 1-1 score when the full-time whistle blows.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 17:02 04/10/2024