Emmen vs Almere City FC Prediction & Betting Tips

Recent matches complicate the picture

Look wider than the league table and things get messier. Almere's last 20 matches, which mix Eerste Divisie games with pre-season friendlies, show 11 wins but also seven losses, including some heavy ones away from home.

Emmen: 20 completed matches; Almere City FC: 20 completed matches.

Emmen

20 matches

Win

40% 8 / 20

Draw

15% 3 / 20

Loss

45% 9 / 20

Scored

36

Conceded

43

Difference

-7

Almere City FC

20 matches

Win

55% 11 / 20

Draw

10% 2 / 20

Loss

35% 7 / 20

Scored

43

Conceded

29

Difference

+14

Emmen's equivalent run reads similarly uneven: seven wins, three draws and ten losses, with 44 goals conceded across those fixtures. That sample stretches back into last season too, so it's not a clean read on where either side stands right now.

The extended form line doesn't match the tidy story the current standings tell, so it's worth weighing both rather than leaning on one.

Comparative Team Statistics: Emmen vs Almere City FC

Head-to-head record swings both ways

These two have met plenty over the years, and the recent meetings haven't gone one way. Emmen won a pre-season friendly 4-0 back in August this year, but the last competitive league meeting in December 2025 went to Almere, 4-2 on Almere's own ground.

Before that, Emmen won 4-1 at home in August 2025. Stretch back further and it's a genuinely mixed bag, including a couple of draws too.

Table shows a big gap between these two

In the current Eerste Divisie table, Almere City FC sit second with 16 points from seven games, built on a tight defence that's shipped just four goals all season.

Emmen are down in ninth on 12 points, with a much shakier goal difference after conceding 17 in the same number of matches.

On paper this reads like a comfortable situation for the away side, though league position alone won't guarantee control of the game.

Goals have come from a handful of players

Almere's F. Druijf has six goals in six appearances this season, with E. Poku chipping in three from seven. That's a fairly narrow scoring spread for the away side.

Emmen:

Best scorers:

F. Quispel - 6

J. Cooper - 5

Best assist providers:

L. Everink - 3

J. Cooper - 2

Penalty cards:

J. Mukeh x 1 x 2

Stan van Manen x 1

Y. Dede-Lhomme x 3

Almere City FC:

Best scorers:

F. Druijf - 6

E. Poku - 3

Best assist providers:

F. Druijf - 3

E. Poku - 2

For Emmen, F. Quispel and J. Cooper have six and five goals respectively from seven games, so they've had goals across a couple of players even if things have been leakier at the back.

Emmen also have a handful of players already on three yellow cards each, plus a red card for Stan van Manen and J. Mukeh, hinting at a side picking up its share of bookings, though that's not proof of specific suspensions for this fixture.