FC Volendam vs Heracles Almelo Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

FC Volendam

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FC Volendam will be looking for an improved result here following the 3-1 Eredivisie defeat last time out to Fortuna Sittard.

The only player to score from FC Volendam was Garang Kuol (40'). Oğuzhan Özyakup (59'), Tijjani Noslin (66') and Alen Halilović (89') scored for Fortuna Sittard.

It’s been seldom in recent games that FC Volendam have shown defensive steel. The reality is that FC Volendam have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 16 goals on the way. That kind of trend isn’t assured to follow through into this next game, though.

Looking at the pre-match facts, FC Volendam:

• have not lost a league tie with Heracles Almelo in their previous 5 matches.
• have not won at home in their last 2 matches in the league.

Heracles Almelo

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against FC Utrecht in Eredivisie competition, Heracles Almelo and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

For Heracles Almelo, goals were scored by Abdenego Nankishi (62') and Navajo Bakboord (94' Own goal). Ole Romeny (5') and Victor Jensen (45') scored for FC Utrecht.

Proving their fondness for fruitful encounters, we’ve had goals 21 times in the previous six matches in which Heracles Almelo have taken to the field, yielding a mean average of 3.5 goals for each clash. Opposing teams have hit 9 of this grand total.

Coming into this fixture, Heracles Almelo haven't beaten FC Volendam when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head clashes going back to 16/05/2003 tells us that FC Volendam have won 3 of them and Heracles Almelo 0, with the tally of drawn results standing at 3.

A combined total of 15 goals were produced between them in these games, with 10 from Het Andere Oranje and 5 for Heraclieden. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

📰 Team News: FC Volendam

Xavier Mbuyamba (Ill), Oskar Buur (Unknown Injury), Koen Blommestijn (Unknown Injury) and Achraf Douiri (Unknown Injury) aren’t available for FC Volendam manager Matthias Kohler.

It seems likely that Het Andere Oranje will possibly use a 4-3-3 formation for this game, beginning the first half with Mio Backhaus, Brian Plat, Damon Mirani, Benaissa Benamar, Josh Flint, Milan de Haan, Joey Antonioli, Calvin Twigt, Bilal Ould-Chikh, Robert Muehren and Garang Kuol.

📰 Team News: Heracles Almelo

Heracles Almelo boss John Lammers has to choose a team with limited availability. Nikolai Laursen (Cruciate Ligament Injury) and Jizz Hornkamp (Ankle Injury) won’t be making appearances.

We believe Heraclieden seem most likely to make use of a 4-3-3 formation, settling for Michael Brouwer, Navajo Bakboord, Stijn Bultman, Justin Hoogma, Jetro Willems, Thomas Bruns, B. De Keersmaecker, Anas Ouahim, Bryan Limbombe, Mohamed Sankoh and Emil Hansson.

🧠 Prediction

Our thinking is that Heracles Almelo and FC Volendam could both find themselves scoring on more than one occasion in a potential goal-fest with little between the two teams.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square with both teams likely to score. We’re therefore tipping a very competitive encounter with a 2-2 score draw at the end of the match.

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

Victor Martins, 01:00 19/09/2023