📊 Form Guide

Telstar

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Telstar will be wanting a better result here after the 1-0 Eerste Divisie defeat in their last game at the hands of SC Cambuur.

In that game, Telstar had 50% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. At the other end, Cambuur had 13 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Remco Balk (73') scored for SC Cambuur.

It has not been often in recent times that Telstar have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Telstar have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 6 goals in the process. Such a trend might not be sustained into this match, though.

Jong Utrecht

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

In that game, Jong Utrecht had 38% possession and 9 shots on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Jong Utrecht was Mees Akkerman (74'). Emmen had 18 shots on goal with 6 on target. Mike te Wierik (31' Own goal, 93'), Patrick Brouwer (73') and Desley Ubbink (96') scored for FC Emmen.

Looking at their form, and Jong Utrecht have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 15 goals in all. At the back, Jong Utrecht can certainly do much better.

Analysis of their past results shows that Jong Utrecht:

• remain undefeated by Telstar in games played away from home for the previous 3 league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head meetings going back to 02/04/2021 tells us that Telstar have won 1 of them and Jong Utrecht 3, with the number of draws standing at 2.

A combined total of 17 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 6 of them from Witte Leeuwen and 11 netted by Jong Utrecht. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The last league clash between these clubs was Eerste Divisie match day 17 on 04/12/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Jong Utrecht 0-0 Telstar.

On that occasion, Jong Utrecht had 48% possession and 2 shots at goal with 0 of them on target.

At the other end, Telstar had 16 shots on goal with 4 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Boyd van Kommer.

🗞️ Team News: Telstar

The Telstar manager Ulrich Landvreugd will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns to speak of before this clash owing to a completely injury-free squad available to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Jong Utrecht

With a fully healthy squad ready to go, the Jong Utrecht manager Ivar van Dinteren doesn’t have any fitness worries to report ahead of this match.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that Telstar look likely to get amongst the goals when they play Jong Utrecht, who may well struggle to score themselves.

Our selection here is for a controlled 2-0 win for Telstar when all’s said and done.

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

Peter Guest, 18:06 29/03/2024