📏 Form Guide

FC Emmen

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FC Emmen will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 2-3 Eerste Divisie victory against Telstar.

In that match, FC Emmen managed 52% possession and 15 shots at goal with 7 on target. For FC Emmen, goals were scored by Vicente Besuijen (52'), Ben Scholte (56') and Maikel Kieftenbeld (66'). Telstar had 18 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Mohammed Tahiri (29') and Thomas Oude Kotte (34') scored for Telstar.

It’s not been often in recent times where FC Emmen have kept a clean sheet. In fact, FC Emmen have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 games, giving up 15 goals on the way.

Coming into this fixture, FC Emmen are without a win at home for the past 2 matches in the league.

Helmond Sport

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Helmond Sport come into this clash following a 3-1 Eerste Divisie win with the defeat of Jong Ajax in their most recent outing.

In that match, Helmond Sport had 38% possession and 10 shots at goal with 8 on target. For Helmond Sport, the scorers were Anthony van den Hurk (33', 42') and Pius Krätschmer (65'). On the other side, Jong Ajax got 9 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Tristan Gooijer (82') was the scorer for Jong Ajax.

The stats tell the story, and Helmond Sport have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 8 goals in total. Defensively, Helmond Sport have seen their frailties exposed. Previous results aside, we’ll just have to find out if that trend might be sustained here in this game.

Coming into this fixture, Helmond Sport are undefeated by FC Emmen in games played away from home for the previous 11 league matches. It really has been a happy hunting ground for them.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head meetings going back to 17/02/2017 shows that FC Emmen have won 2 of these and Helmond Sport 3, with the number of draws being 1.

A total of 15 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 7 from Rood-Witten and 8 netted by Helmond. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.

The previous league contest between the two was Eerste Divisie match day 16 on 24/11/2023 when the final score was Helmond Sport 1-2 FC Emmen.

In that game, Helmond Sport had 66% possession and 17 shots on goal with 4 on target. Their only player to score was Martijn Kaars (68').

At the other end, FC Emmen got 18 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Ahmed El Messaoudi (24') and Piotr Parzyszek (45') scored.

The match was refereed by Laurens Gerrets.

📋 Team News: FC Emmen

The FC Emmen manager Alfons Arts doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this match owing to a fully healthy squad available for selection.

ℹ️ Team News: Helmond Sport

Owing to a completely healthy squad available for selection, the Helmond Sport boss Adrie Bogers doesn’t have any fitness worries to report before this game.

✨ Prediction

It looks to us that FC Emmen are likely to convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

In contrast, Helmond Sport could well struggle to find the back of the net but do we see them getting the chances to score, too.

We can therefore see a 3-1 winning score for FC Emmen come full-time.

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

Renata Leite, 17:05 29/04/2024