📏 Form Guide

Excelsior

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Excelsior will be looking for an improved result here following the 2-1 Eerste Divisie defeat last time out to De Graafschap.

In that game, Excelsior managed 51% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Excelsior was Derensili Sanches Fernandes (14'). For their opponents, De Graafschap got 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Philip Brittijn (41') and Ibrahim El Kadiri (83') scored for De Graafschap.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games that Excelsior have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Excelsior have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 11 goals on the way.

Looking at their past form shows that Excelsior:

• have not been beaten in the league by Den Bosch in their previous 8 games. A decent run, indeed.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.
• have not won at home in their last 3 league matches.

Den Bosch

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Since a losing effort in their last game against SC Cambuur in Eerste Divisie action, Den Bosch and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Den Bosch had 51% possession and 7 shots at goal with 0 on target. SC Cambuur had 12 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Remco Balk (6') and Benjamin Pauwels (32') scored for SC Cambuur.

The trend of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring Den Bosch has become apparent in recent matches. A glance at their last six games reveals that this has occurred 5 times. During these clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal aggregate of 6 while Den Bosch have scored 4. Putting that to one side, we must now wait to see whether that trend shall be replicated in this next game.

Analysis of their past results shows that Den Bosch:

• are winless against Excelsior in away games against them for the last 7 matches in the league. Not good at all.
• have not won away from home in their last 4 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings going back to 23/10/2020 reveals that these encounters have not been good ones for Den Bosch. They have not managed to get themselves any wins at all while Excelsior have remained in the ascendancy, beating them in 83 per cent of those games played.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 24 in total which averages out at 4 goals per match.

The previous league clash featuring these clubs was Eerste Divisie match day 16 on 22/11/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Den Bosch 0-3 Excelsior.

In that match, Den Bosch had 48% possession and 10 shots on goal with 2 on target.

Excelsior got 12 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Arthur Zagré (34'), Noah Naujoks (42') and Jacky Donkor (68') scored.

The referee was Martin van den Kerkhof.

📋 Team News: Excelsior

Lennard Hartjes (Cruciate ligament tear) and Xander Blomme (unknown injury) are unavailable for Excelsior manager Ruben den Uil.

🗞️ Team News: Den Bosch

From a largely healthy group, there is just the one fitness problem for the Den Bosch gaffer Ulrich Landvreugd to be concerned about. Sebastian Karlsson Grach (unknown injury) won’t be playing here.

⚡ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Den Bosch should get enough chances to break down this Excelsior outfit, although it realistically won’t prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We think that it’s going to be a 2-1 winning margin for Excelsior at full-time. It should be a decent one.

Renata Leite, 18:01 10/03/2025