📊 Form Guide

Excelsior

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Excelsior, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 1-4 Eerste Divisie success over FC Volendam.

In that game, Excelsior had 53% possession and 22 shots on goal with 10 of them on target. For Excelsior, the goals were scored by Derensili Sanches Fernandes (16', 23', 60') and Lance Duijvestijn (72'). On the other side, FC Volendam had 8 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Henk Veerman (82') scored for FC Volendam.

Matches involving Excelsior have proved to be absorbing encounters lately with high scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past half dozen games alone, a grand total of 20 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 16 of those accredited to Excelsior. Such a trend might not be carried forward here, of course.

Their past results show that Excelsior:

• have not emerged victorious against FC Emmen in their previous 2 league matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 5 league matches at home.

FC Emmen

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After tasting defeat last time out to Jong AZ in Eerste Divisie competition, FC Emmen and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, FC Emmen managed 56% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. For FC Emmen, goals were scored by Freddy Quispel (63') and Pascal Mulder (74' Own goal). Jong AZ had 13 shots on goal with 5 on target. Sem van Duijn (13') and Ro-Zangelo Daal (57', 81') scored for Jong AZ.

In the course of their six latest matches, Alfons Arts's FC Emmen have found the back of the net 10 times thus earning them the goals per game average of 1.67.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their past head-to-head clashes going back to 17/02/2019 tells us that Excelsior have won 3 of these games & FC Emmen 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A total of 12 goals were produced between them in this period, with 6 of them for Roodzwarten and 6 for Rood-Witten. That’s an average goals per game of 2.

The last league game featuring the two was Eerste Divisie match day 18 on 08/12/2024 when it finished FC Emmen 1-1 Excelsior.

That day, FC Emmen had 51% possession and 10 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Mike te Wierik (5').

For their opponents, Excelsior got 15 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Lennard Hartjes (30') was the scorer.

The referee was Joey Kooij.

ℹ️ Team News: Excelsior

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just the lone fitness concern for the Excelsior manager Ruben den Uil to be concerned with from an otherwise complete group. Lennard Hartjes (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t play.

📋 Team News: FC Emmen

FC Emmen manager Alfons Arts has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Luca Unbehaun (minor knock), Franck Evina (minor knock), Julius Kade (Knee injury) and Robin Schouten (unknown injury) are not ready for selection.

💭 Prediction

We’re thinking that FC Emmen certainly have the ability to find the back of the net against this Excelsior outfit, however it is unlikely to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

Our selection here is for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 victory for Excelsior after the 90.

Lucas Pereira, 14:02 27/04/2025