Two delicious top duels to close out 2024

KAMPONG - SCHC

• SCHC is already 32 games in a row without defeat against Kampong (W24 G8).
  
• Kampong recorded its last (home) win against SCHC on October 21, 2007 (1-0 goal by Floor Joosten). This was followed by fifteen home matches without a win against the team from Bilthoven (G5 V10).
  
• Kampong is the most scoring team in the Hoofdklasse after De Grote Drie. The formation of coach Kai de Jager scored thirty goals, including eleven in the last two games.
  
• Kampong won its last two games (1-5 at HGC and 0-6 at Rotterdam) and is undefeated since four games (G G W W ).
  
• SCHC is the most scoring team in the Hoofdklasse this season with 46 goals from twelve games.
  
• SCHC won its last three games without a single goal: 7-0 Rotterdam, 0-1 HDM and 5-0 Oranje-Rood.

DEN BOSCH - AMSTERDAM

• Den Bosch remained unbeaten in its last four major league games with Amsterdam: 2-2, 2-1, 1-1 and 1-2.
  
• The last time Amsterdam won against Den Bosch in the regular league was September 18, 2022 (2-0 through goals by Fiona Morgenstern and Michelle Fillet). That was also the last time Den Bosch lost a game at all in the Hoofdklasse.
  
• The mutual balance between the two teams in regular league games at the Oosterplas is nicely balanced: thirteen wins for each (eight ties).
  
• Den Bosch did not lose a single point in the first twelve games of the season. Den Bosch's best league start dates back to the 2012-2013 season: then the first seventeen games were all won.
  
• Amsterdam is unbeaten in the Hoofdklasse for ten games in a row, but coach Teun de Nooijer's team did lose eight points in that series (W6 G4).
  
• Amsterdam attacker Michelle Fillet scored four goals in her last five league games against Den Bosch.

HUIZEN - HGC

• The only mutual match between the two teams early this season ended in a big win for HGC: 5-0, with goals by Amy Costello (2), Valentina Raposo, Bente Kolmus and Filiz Tuzgöl.
  
• Huizen lost its last seven games, failing to score. Anne Verbeek was the last Huizen player to score on Oct. 5. She did so in the 56th minute of the home game with Oranje-Rood (2-2).
  
• Huizen is now 424 minutes without a goal in the Hoofdklasse. With only four goals in 12 games, it is the least scoring team in this league.
  
• HGC lost only one of its last six games in the Hoofdklasse (1-5 against Kampong on Nov. 10). For the rest: two wins and three ties in that series.
  
• HGC won its last two away games in the Hoofdklasse (1-2 Rotterdam and 1-2 Oranje-Rood). Before that, the team suffered six consecutive defeats on foreign soil.

PINOKÉ - ROTTERDAM

• Rotterdam has been unable to beat Pinoké for seven games in a row: V V G V V V.
  
• Pinoké won the last four duels with Rotterdam and reached seventeen goals in that series.
  
• Pinoké (ranked fourth) lost points in three of its last four games: V G W G. Only the away game against Hurley yielded the full spoils (1-2 on Nov. 9).
  
• Rotterdam lost seven of its last eight matches in the Hoofdklasse and won the remaining game (1-0 against Oranje-Rood).
  
• Pinoké attacker Maria Steensma scored four goals in her last two home games with Rotterdam.

ORANJE-ROOD - HDM

• Oranje-Rood has struggled to win against HDM in recent years. Of the last eight duels with the team from The Hague, the people from Eindhoven won only one (G3 V4). That was the first of two duels last season (3-2 in Eindhoven).
   
• Oranje-Rood lost six of its last seven games in the Hoofdklasse and in between only won at Hurley (1-2 on Oct. 27).
   
• In its five most recent home games, Oranje-Rood stepped off the field empty-handed each time. The last home win was the 4-2 at Hurley at the end of last season.
   
• Five home defeats in a row is a new negative club record for Oranje-Rood. The previous record series of four defeats in a row in front of their own public also dates from this calendar year.
   
• HDM failed to score in four of its last six away games and scored a total of only three goals in that series.

TILBURG - HURLEY

• Tilburg won the first mutual match against Hurley in 2022-2023, then suffered three defeats in a row against the Bosuilen and won the most recent encounter (1-2).
  
• Hurley won both away duels with Tilburg in the Hoofdklasse: twice there was 1-2 on the scoreboard.
  
• Tilburg remained unbeaten in half of its matches this season (W5 G1).
  
• Tilburg won three home games this season it lost three. The team won its last two home appearances and kept its goal clean in those: 2-0 Huizen and 2-0 HDM.
  
• Hurley won 5-0 at home against Huizen last Saturday, ending a disappointing run of four games without a win (V V G V).
  
• That 5-0 win over Huizen was Hurley's third-largest win in Hoofdklasse history. Only Victoria (1-7) and the Terriers (6-0) ever won more generously.