Tulp HK Men: what you need to know about match round 4

ORANJE-ROOD - AMSTERDAM
Saturday, September 27, 15:00

Head-to-head record
18 matches
7 wins Oranje-Rood
6 wins by Amsterdam
5 draws

What the stats say

• Oranje-Rood won four of the last five matches against Amsterdam in the Hoofdklasse. Before that, the Eindhoven players remained winless against the team from the capital eight times in a row.
   
• The only dissonant in that recent series was the 7-1 defeat at Wagener Stadium at the beginning of last season. Amsterdam attacker Boris Burkhardt scored four goals that afternoon. Within 29 minutes, Oranje-Rood were trailing 5-0 then.
   
• In each of the nine editions of Oranje-Rood - Amsterdam, both teams scored (44 goals in total, an average of 4.88 goals per match).
   
• Oranje-Rood started the season with three wins. Coach Ageeth Boomgaardt's team is the only one not to have lost a single point this league.
   
• Amsterdam has already scored 24 goals in its three matches this season, an average of eight (!) goals per match.

DEN BOSCH - KLEIN ZWITSERLAND
Sunday, September 28, 15:00

Head-to-head record
46 matches
21 wins Den Bosch
14 wins KZ
11 draws

What the stats say

• In recent years, Den Bosch and KZ have been pretty evenly matched. Of the eight most recent matches between them, the Bosch team won three and the Hague team four (D1).
   
• Den Bosch remained winless in three of its last four home duels with KZ: 2-4, 1-1, 2-3 and 3-1.
   
• Den Bosch won its last six home matches in the regular league and is already 13 home games in a row unbeaten at the Oosterplas (W9 D4).
   
• KZ won its previous away game in the Hoofdklasse (1-2 at Hurley), but before that suffered five consecutive defeats on foreign soil. In doing so, the team had to concede twenty goals.
   
• Den Bosch defender Timo Boers is approaching a milestone. He currently has scored 48 penalty corner goals in the Hoofdklasse and needs two more to reach fifty.

HDM - LAREN
Sunday 28 September, 15:00

Head-to-head record
29 matches
14 wins Pinoké
6 wins Hurley
9 draws

What the stats say

• HDM and Laren face each other again for the first time since the 2023-2024 season. In that season, HDM won both clashes with Laren: 2-4 away and 5-1 at home.
   
• Laren lost four of the last six matches with HDM and won the other two.
   
• The last five mutual matches between HDM and Laren accounted for 29 goals, an average of 5.80 goals per game.
   
• HDM lost its first three matches of this season with the combined goal figures 4-19.
   
• Laren won three of its last 33 matches in the Hoofdklasse, against two draws and 28 defeats.

HURLEY - BLOEMENDAAL
Sunday 28 September, 15:00

Head-to-head record
34 matches
2 wins Hurley
29 wins Bloemendaal
3 draws

What the stats say

• Bloemendaal is 26 matches in a row unbeaten against Hurley (W24 D2) and has won the last 11 matches with the team from Amstelveen since a 1-1 at 't Kopje on 11 October 2015. 
   
• The last time Hurley could win from Bloemendaal was on 6 May 2001. It was 3-0 in Amstelveen that day through three goals from Lars Stalling.
   
• Hurley suffered 34 goals in its last seven matches in the Hoofdklasse, an average of almost five goals against per match.
   
• Bloemendaal lost three of its last five away games in the Hoofdklasse (W2): 3-2 at KZ, 4-3 and 4-2 at Rotterdam.
   
• Teun Beins is currently Bloemendaal's most productive player with four goals (all from the penalty corner). With that, he has already doubled his production from the complete last season.

KAMPONG - PINOKÉ
Sunday 28 September, 15:00

Head-to-head record
66 matches
37 wins Kampong
17 wins Pinoké
12 draws

What the stats say

• Kampong has not lost to Pinoké (W26 D1) in the Hoofdklasse regular league for 27 games in a row.
   
• Kampong won its last 11 league matches with Pinoké since a 3-3 in Amstelveen.
   
• Only four of the 33 mutual matches in Utrecht ended in a draw (20 wins for Kampong and nine for Pinoké).
   
• Pinoké won its last two matches in the Hoofdklasse, scoring 11 goals: 1-6 at Schaerweijde and 5-0 at home against Hurley.
   
• Kampong is already 11 consecutive games without a loss in the regular league (W7 D4), but did lose four points in its last two matches (2-2 Amsterdam and 0-0 Klein Zwitserland).
   
• Duco Telgenkamp is one goal away from scoring his 50th official goal for Kampong. The striker has so far scored 36 in the Hoofdklasse, two in the playoffs, seven in the EHL and four in the battle for the Gold Cup.

SCHAERWEIJDE - ROTTERDAM
Sunday 28 September, 15:00

Head-to-head record
14 matches
1 win Schaerweijde
12 wins Rotterdam
1 draw

What the stats say

• Rotterdam remained without defeat in 13 of 14 league matches against Schaerweijde (W12 D1 L1).
   
• On 19 November 2023, Rotterdam suffered its only defeat against Schaerweijde: at the home Hazelaarweg it was 0-1 through a goal by Patrick Coates.
   
• The most goal-rich edition of Schaerweijde-Rotterdam was the 3-8 of 11 November 2012, partly due to a hat-trick by Nick Wilson for the Rotterdammers.
   
• Schaerweijde lost its last seven matches at the highest level since a 1-1 at home against Laren on 13 April 2024. 
   
• Rotterdam won five of its last six matches in the Hoofdklasse and only lost points in that series on a visit to Pinoké (2-2, first round of play this season).
   
• Rotterdam scored 18 goals in its last four big league games: 5-0 KZ, 2-2 Pinoké, 4-2 Bloemendaal and 7-2 HDM. Guus Jansen (five) and Thijs van Dam (three) accounted for most of those eighteen goals.