Almere City will be looking for a repeat result of the 0-1 Eerste Divisie triumph against FC Dordrecht.
In that game, Almere City had 42% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player to score for Almere City was Amoah Foah-Sam (77'). FC Dordrecht had 20 attempts on goal with 5 on target.
In their last 6 games, Jeroen Rijsdijk's Almere City have found the net a combined total of 7 times which gives them an average number of goals per match equal to 1.17.
Coming into this contest, Almere City have not won at home in their last 3 matches in the league.
Following on from a losing effort in their last game against ADO Den Haag in Eerste Divisie action, MVV will be hoping to turn things around here.
In that game, MVV managed 32% possession and 4 shots at goal with 3 on target. For MVV, goals were scored by Luca Foubert (70'), Sven Braken (87') and Ilias Breugelmans (89'). At the other end, ADO Den Haag had 27 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Steven van der Sloot (27'), Cameron Peupion (32'), Evan Rottier (60') and Daryl van Mieghem (84') scored for ADO Den Haag.
MVV have been a threat going forward of late, scoring 13 times in their previous 6 matches. This doesn’t mask the fact that MVV can also improve defensively after being scored against in 6 of those same matches.
Going into this contest, MVV are without an away win for the past 5 league games.
Looking over their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 30/08/2020 shows that Almere City have won 2 of these and MVV 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.
A combined sum of 9 goals were scored between them in these games, with 4 from De Zwarte Schapen and 5 for MVV. That is an average goals per game value of 1.5.
The previous league encounter featuring these clubs was Eerste Divisie match day 38 on 19/05/2023 when the final score was Almere City 1-0 MVV.
The referee was Martin Peréz.
The Almere City boss Jeroen Rijsdijk will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns to speak of before this clash owing to a fully injury-free group available to choose from.
Due to a completely healthy squad available to choose from, the MVV manager Peter van den Berg does not have any fitness concerns to report before this clash.
Looking at these two teams, we feel that MVV should get enough chances to get a goal against this Almere City side, however that is unlikely to be as many as they’ll concede.
We can see a 2-1 victory for Almere City at the end of the match. Let’s see what eventuates.