FC Eindhoven and Roda JC meet at Jan Louwers Stadion, in a match for the 34 th round of the Eerste Divisie. In the last direct match for this edition of the league, on 09-21-2018, the two teams tied (0-0). The history of recent direct confrontations is favorable to the visiting team, which records 2 wins and 1 draw in the last 3 matches. Despite being a match between 11th and 10th of the table, it is actually a match between the º ranked in home games and the 14th as a visitor.
FC Eindhoven:
The home team is currently in the 11 th position of the league, with 47 points won, after 13 wins, 8 draws and 12 losses. In the penultimate match, they won in a home match against FC Oss, by (2-1). In the last match, they tied in an away match against MVV Maastricht by (1-1). Interestingly, this is a team that has had better results in away matches than at home, since they have won 27 points in away matches and only at their stadium. For the league, FC Eindhoven won 18 points out of 30 possible points, after 5 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses in the last 10 home matches. In their home league matches the most frequent result at half-time was the 0-0 (7 out of 16 matches). The team has conceded goals in 9 of the last 10 matches and has not displayed great defensive solidity, but their offense has scored consistently, as they have scored goals in 7 of the last 10 matches for this competition. This is a team that usually scores a few times first: they only opened the scoring in 5 of their last 33 matches for the Eerste Divisie, of these 5 they reached the break in advantage in 4 and won at the end of the 90 ‘in all.
FC Eindhoven have achieved interesting displays in recent days and have not suffered any defeat in the last 6 games played. In the table, is 1 point behind this rival and very close to entering the group of the 9 teams that will play the playoffs. On the last day he entered more motivated in the game, after a victory, but he arrives at this day after not having achieved more than a draw. Still, in this game you can find motivation to face a direct rival, because the 3 points of this game almost equal to 6. In the quality of host, FC Eindhoven has 4 games without losses and in the last 2 games against his amateurs always won. Forwards Rodney Klooster and Kaj de Rooij, who were no longer in the last game, were joined by goalkeeper Ruud Swinkels, who has physical problems.
Roda JC:
The away team is currently in the 10 th position of the league, with 48 points won, after 13 wins, 9 draws and 11 losses. In the penultimate match, they won in a home match against Utrecht II, by (2-1). In the last match, they tied in a home match against RKC Waalwijk, by (0-0). This is a stronger team in their stadium, where they won 30 points, against only 18 in their away matches. In the last away game in this competition, they lost in by (4-0) against Helmond Sport. In the last 10 away matches for the championship, Roda JC has 2 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses, so they have won 8 points out of 30 possible. In their home league matches the most frequent result at half-time was the 0-0 (7 out of 16 matches). The team has conceded goals in 8 of the last 10 matches, so it has not presented great defensive solidity, but their offense has scored consistently, as they have scored goals in 7 of the last 10 matches for this competition. This is a team that usually scores a few times first: they only opened the scoring in 8 of their last 33 matches for the Eerste Divisie, of these 8 they reached the break in advantage in 3 and won at the end of the 90 ‘in 3. In 33 matches in this tournament, suffered the first goal 8 times and only got 1 comeback.
Having managed to add an important victory over Utrecht, it could be expected that the Wheel would prolong this good moment, beating and defeating Waalwijk, at home and in front of its fans, however, what happened was a goalless draw. With this result the Roda continues in the middle of the qualifying table, with a good chance of improving, but for that it needs to conquer points. The performances of this team as a visitor show the difficulties he feels, because he does not win away from home for 7 games and lost the last 3 games as a visitor. Mitchel Paulissen and Daryl Werker completed suspensions on the last day and are back, by change with Mario Engels, who for having reached the limit of yellow cards accumulated can not play this game.
