📊 Form Guide

Den Bosch

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Den Bosch, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 2-3 Eerste Divisie victory against VVV-Venlo.

In that game, Den Bosch managed 34% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. For Den Bosch, the goalscorers were Jaron Vicario (45'), Salah-Eddine Oulad M'Hand (54') and Kacper Kostorz (87'). For their opponents, VVV-Venlo got 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Levi Smans (52') and Michalis Kosidis (76') scored for VVV-Venlo.

William van Overbeek's Den Bosch have celebrated scoring a sum total of 9 times over their last 6 outings. The tally of goals that have been scored against them in those games stands at 8.

Taking a look at their past results, Den Bosch:

• have not registered a win against FC Emmen in their last 8 league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 7 matches in the league. Their fans aren't happy.

FC Emmen

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FC Emmen will go into this game after a 3-0 Eerste Divisie win to defeat Helmond Sport in their most recent match.

In that game, FC Emmen had 44% possession and 12 shots on goal with 4 on target. For FC Emmen, goals were scored by Piotr Parzyszek (10'), Patrick Brouwer (68') and Vicente Besuijen (73'). At the other end, Helmond Sport got 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

Indicating their fondness for fruitful matches, we’ve seen goals 26 times in the prior six matches in which FC Emmen have sent out their troops, giving a mean average of 4.33 goals each meeting. Opposing teams have hit 13 of this grand total. We will have to find out if that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Heading into this fixture, FC Emmen remain undefeated by Den Bosch in away games against them for the last 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking over past results between these clubs stretching back to 03/03/2017 shows that these encounters have not been good ones for Den Bosch. They’ve not managed to come away with any victories at all whereas FC Emmen have dominated them, running out winners in 67 per cent of those ties.

A sum of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 4 of them from Blue White Dragons and 10 coming from Rood-Witten. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.33.

The last league meeting featuring these sides was Eerste Divisie match day 14 on 10/11/2023 and the score finished FC Emmen 1-0 Den Bosch.

That time, FC Emmen managed 68% possession and 17 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Jari Vlak (39').

At the other end, Den Bosch had 5 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

The referee was Robin Hensgens.

🗞️ Team News: Den Bosch

The Den Bosch manager William van Overbeek has a full complement, with no fitness concerns to speak of before this match owing to a fully injury-free squad to choose from.

📰 Team News: FC Emmen

Owing to a completely injury-free squad to choose from, the FC Emmen manager Alfons Arts has zero fitness concerns at all ahead of this clash.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Den Bosch might need a bit of good fortune to score goals against this FC Emmen side who we think will end up scoring and staying ahead.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a good tussle with a 0-1 winning margin for FC Emmen when all is said and done.

Let’s see.

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

Peter Guest, 17:07 03/05/2024