Excelsior vs FC Emmen Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 27)

📏 Form Guide

Excelsior

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Excelsior will be looking for another win after the 1-4 Eerste Divisie victory over FC Volendam.

In that game, Excelsior managed 53% possession and 22 attempts at goal with 10 of them on target. For Excelsior, the scorers were Derensili Sanches Fernandes (16', 23', 60') and Lance Duijvestijn (72'). For their opponents, FC Volendam had 8 shots at 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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Since a loss in their previous game against Jong AZ in Eerste Divisie competition, FC Emmen will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, FC Emmen managed 56% possession and 15 attempts at 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 got 13 attempts at 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

Looking over their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 17/02/2019 shows that Excelsior have won 3 of these games & FC Emmen 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A combined total of 12 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 6 of them for Roodzwarten and 6 created by Rood-Witten. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The previous league fixture between the two was Eerste Divisie match day 18 on 08/12/2024 which ended up with the score at FC Emmen 1-1 Excelsior.

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

For their opponents, Excelsior got 15 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Lennard Hartjes (30') scored.

The referee was Joey Kooij.

📰 Team News: Excelsior

Looking at personnel, there is just a single fitness concern for the Excelsior manager Ruben den Uil to be concerned with from an otherwise complete set of players. Lennard Hartjes (Cruciate ligament tear) is out of contention.

📰 Team News: FC Emmen

FC Emmen manager Alfons Arts has multiple availability issues to deal with. Luca Unbehaun (minor knock), Franck Evina (minor knock), Julius Kade (Knee injury) and Robin Schouten (unknown injury) are not able to play.

✨ 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.

📚 ⚽️ What are the best odds for the game?

Looking at the bookies’ prices in the WDW market, a victory for Excelsior is best priced at 1.53, going for a draw is 4.33 & staking on the winning team to be FC Emmen can be had at 5.5. They are the top prices being offered as of now.

Lucas Pereira, 16:02 23/04/2025