Round 28 of the 2021-22 Eredivisie season concludes with Cambuur welcoming NEC to the Cambuur Stadion on Sunday.
This weekend's meeting between the teams is the third this season, with the previous two encounters yielding a win apiece for either side.
Match preview
Cambuur suffered a third straight defeat as they were beaten 3-0 by Go Ahead Eagles on March 19 when the teams faced off.
Goals from Joris Kramer, Luuk Brouwers and Mats Deijl put Henk de Jong's men to the sword at De Adelaarshorst.
The Yellow-Blues remain ninth in the league standings, but a couple of sides in and around are beginning to bear down on them in the race for the last top-half spot.
Their next task comes against an opposing outfit who suffered a 3-2 defeat in the reverse fixture, although NEC did come out on top in a KNVB-Beker round of 32 clash.
Sunday's hosts have conceded the most goals on their own patch this term with their last clean sheet in a competitive home game coming back in August.
NEC snapped a three-game losing streak with a goalless draw against Sparta Rotterdam at the Goffertstadion two Saturdays ago.
Rogier Meijer's men were in the ascendancy for the majority of the contest but failed to find the breakthrough in Nijmegen.
Currently just one point and one place behind in the league table, a victory for Eniesee this weekend would see them leapfrog their opponents.
Only the top six sides have picked up more points away from home than Sunday's visitors who have, however, lost each of their last two games on the road.
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Team News
Twenty-year-old Maxim Gullit is ruled out with a knee problem, while Roberts Uldrikis misses out through a leg injury.
Sonny Stevens has sat out the last two games due to a torn muscle and the goalkeeper remains unavailable for Cambuur.
NEC's Edgar Barreto could return to the starting XI for this one after sitting out his side's last outing due to a knock.
Mikkel Duelund and Pedro Ruiz are both expected not to play any part for this weekend's visitors with the latter yet to feature since November.
Rens van Eijden still awaits his first appearance of the season as the Dutchman continues to nurse a long-term knee injury.
Cambuur possible starting lineup:
Bos; Bangura, Tol, Mac-Intosch, Schmidt; Hoedemakers, Maulun, Paulissen; Kallon, Joosten, Breij
NEC possible starting lineup:
Branderhorst; El Karouani, Odenthal, Guth, Van Rooy; Proper, Schone; Tavsan, Mattsson, Okita; Akman
We say: Cambuur 1-1 NEC
The two sides are neck and neck in the league standings, and we anticipate a keenly-contested affair in this one. We are also backing the teams to cancel each other out and settle for a point apiece in the end.
Data Analysis
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Cambuur win with a probability of 39.5%. A win for NEC had a probability of 37.28% and a draw had a probability of 23.2%.
The most likely scoreline for a Cambuur win was 2-1 with a probability of 8.45%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 1-0 (6.41%) and 2-0 (5.29%). The likeliest NEC win was 1-2 (8.18%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (10.23%). The actual scoreline of 1-2 was predicted with an 8.2% likelihood.
