Emmen vs FC Volendam: Can Emmen Bounce Back from Heavy Defeat?
FC Emmen host FC Volendam at De Oude Meerdijk on Friday evening in a round-five Keuken Kampioen Divisie clash. Both sides enter the fixture on the back of dramatically different results last weekend and will be keen to solidify their positions in the upper half of the early-season table.
Team News and Injury Latest
No fresh injury concerns have been reported for either side ahead of this fixture. Emmen will be focusing on a response after their backline was breached four times in Venlo. The last official match sheet listed Jafar Arias as a starting centre-forward for Emmen; the Curaçao-born striker will likely lead the line again. For Volendam, the matchday squad that dismantled FC Dordrecht 6-1 is expected to feature heavily, though the starting eleven from that emphatic win has not been officially confirmed.
Emmen Form Guide
FC Emmen sit fifth in the table with nine points from four matches, but their unbeaten start to the campaign was brutally halted on Sunday. Dick Lukkien’s side suffered a 4-0 defeat away to VVV-Venlo at the Seacon Stadion De Koel, a result that dropped them behind their opponents in the early standings. Before that setback, Emmen had collected three wins from three, conceding just once while scoring six times. Returning to De Oude Meerdijk, where they have won both league games this season, offers a chance to immediately extinguish the memory of that Venlo collapse.