📏 Form Guide

De Graafschap

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De Graafschap go into this game following on from a 1-1 Eerste Divisie drawn result against Roda JC Kerkrade.

In that match, De Graafschap had 53% possession and 12 shots on goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for De Graafschap was Maas Willemsen (85'). Roda JC got 17 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Enrique Peña Zauner (4') was the scorer for Roda JC Kerkrade.

Fixtures with De Graafschap have often been exciting encounters recently with high scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past 6 clashes, a total of 22 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 11 of these coming from De Graafschap. Previous results aside, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend shall continue on in this match or not.

Pre-game facts show that De Graafschap:

• have not been beaten in the league by MVV in their previous 3 matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

MVV

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In their last game, MVV drew 1-1 in the Eerste Divisie tie with Willem II.

In that match, MVV had 41% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for MVV was Dailon Rocha Livramento (11'). At the other end, Willem II had 24 attempts on goal with 11 on target. Jeredy Hilterman (93') scored for Willem II.

Maurice Verberne's MVV have found the back of the net 10 times in the course of their previous six matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during that same period comes to 6.

Coming into this meeting, MVV are undefeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 13/02/2021 shows that De Graafschap have won 4 of these games and MVV 1, with the number of draws being 1.

19 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 for Superboeren and 8 created by MVV. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.

The last league fixture between the two was Eerste Divisie match day 7 on 24/09/2023 when it ended MVV 1-2 De Graafschap.

On that day, MVV had 53% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer was Tunahan Taşçı (27').

On the other side, De Graafschap had 16 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Donny Warmerdam (43') and Jan Lammers (51') scored.

The match was refereed by Marc Nagtegaal.

🗞️ Team News: De Graafschap

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just the sole fitness concern for the De Graafschap gaffer Jan Vreman to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength squad. Rio Hillen (Knee injury) misses out.

ℹ️ Team News: MVV

With a fully injury-free squad to pick from, the MVV boss Maurice Verberne has zero fitness concerns to report before this game.

🧠 Prediction

In our view, De Graafschap will most probably be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

Conversely, MVV won’t find it easy to get a goal of their own but we do fancy them being dangerous for periods.

Our selection here is for a pretty comfortable 3-1 margin for De Graafschap when all’s said and done.

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

Andre Moura, 17:09 26/04/2024