What you need to know about women's match round 20

ORANGE-ROOD - ROTTERDAM
Saturday 25 April, 16:30

Head-to-head record
5 games
3 wins Oranje-Rood
2 wins Rotterdam

What the stats say

• Both teams only faced each other five times in the Hoofdklasse. Oranje-Rood won three times (including both home matches so far) and Rotterdam triumphed twice.
   
• Rotterdam won the first half of the competition 2-0 thanks to goals by Myrthe van Kesteren and Brechtje van Santbrink.
   
• Oranje-Rood is struggling to get its points. Coach Mark Dekker's team won one of its last seven games (D2 L4). That happened on a visit to Bloemendaal (1-3) on 29 March.
   
• Orange-Rood lost only one of its last seven home games: D D W D D L D. That happened against HGC on March 22 (2-4).
   
• Rotterdam lost its last two games and failed to score in those games: 1-0 at Den Bosch and 0-4 against Kampong. The team is waiting three matches for a win: D L K.

HGC - BLOEMENDAAL
Sunday 26 April, 12:45 pm

Head-to-head record
37 matches
23 wins HGC
8 wins Bloemendaal
6 draws

What the stats say

• The balance between the two teams in the last six matches between them is neatly balanced: two wins HGC, two wins Bloemendaal and two draws.
   
• Bloemendaal remained unbeaten in eight of the last 11 matches with HGC (W5 D3), but could not win the last two matches: 2-1 in Wassenaar and 1-1 at 't Kopje.
   
• On its own field, HGC has fine figures against Bloemendaal: the team remained unbeaten in 16 of 18 home appearances against The Mussen (W14 D2) and suffered only two defeats: 2-3 in 1994 and 0-1 in 2019.
   
• HGC recorded a welcome 3-0 win over HDM last weekend, ending a mini series of two defeats in a row.
   
• Bloemendaal has been waiting for a win in the Hoofdklasse for five games: L L L D L. The only point was scored in the away match against Tilburg on 12 April (1-1).

AMSTERDAM - SCHC
Sunday, April 26, 12:45 pm

Head-to-head record
45 matches
22 wins Amsterdam
12 wins SCHC
11 draws

What the stats say

• Of the last 14 matches between them in the Hoofdklasse, no fewer than eight ended in a draw, against three wins for Amsterdam and three for SCHC.
   
• In the regular league, Amsterdam have already failed to win four matches in a row against SCHC: 2-2, 2-2, 2-0 loss and 2-2.
   
• Amsterdam won only one of the last nine league matches with SCHC (D5 L3).
   
• On its own field, Amsterdam has been waiting five matches for a win against SCHC: 2-2, 2-3, 1-1, 2-2 and 2-2. The last home victory over SCHC dates from 8 December 2019, when it was 2-0 through hits by Sosha Benninga and Charlotte Vega.
   
• Amsterdam won its last six matches, currently the longest-running win streak of any team.
   
• SCHC is unbeaten on foreign soil for 25 games in a row (W19 D6) since a 4-3 defeat against Den Bosch on 10 March 2024.

TILBURG - PINOKÉ
Sunday 26 April, 12:45 pm

Head-to-head record
7 games
7 wins Pinoké

What the stats say

• Pinoké won all seven matches between themselves and Tilburg: four in Amstelveen and three in Tilburg.
  
• The outward match of the first half of the competition ended in a 5-2 win for Pinoké, with seven different goal scorers: Josephine Murray, Lana Kalse, Elin van Erk, Tessa Beetsma and Bente Jager for the Steekneuzen and Iris Dominicus and Emely Bekker on behalf of Tilburg.
  
• Striker Tilburg kept five points from its last three matches (2-4 HGC, 1-1 Bloemendaal and 2-2 SCHC).
  
• Tilburg only scored seven goals in nine home games, the fewest of any club.
  
• This could be the seventh season in a row that Pinoké ranks among the five best teams in the regular league. In the past six seasons, the team finished fifth, fifth, fifth, fifth, fifth and third consecutively.

KAMPONG - HURLEY
Sunday 26 April, 12:45 pm

Head-to-head record
44 matches
21 wins Kampong
12 wins Hurley
11 draws

What the stats say

• Kampong are unbeaten against Hurley (W D D W) for four matches since a 3-1 defeat in Amstelveen on 30 September 2023.
   
• On their own pitch, Kampong have not lost to Hurley five times in a row: 0-0, 2-2, 3-2, 3-1 and 1-1. The last home defeat dates from 24 November 2019 (1-2).
   
• In its last 13 matches, Kampong lost only to Amsterdam (0-4) and thus remained otherwise unbeaten twvaalf times (W10 D2).
   
• Hurley is in a difficult phase. The team lost five of its last six matches and in between only picked up a point at Rotterdam (1-1) on 29 March.
   
• Hurley won only one of its last 12 away games in the Hoofdklasse (D4 L7): that was the 0-4 at visiting HGC on 1 March.

HDM - DEN BOSCH
Sunday 26 April, 12:45 pm

Head-to-head record
57 matches
4 wins HDM
47 wins Den Bosch
6 draws

What the stats say

• Den Bosch is unbeaten against HDM (W7 D2) since nine matches and won the last three matches between them.
   
• Den Bosch's last defeat against HDM was the 1-2 at Oosterplas on 18 April 2021. That was HDM's only league victory over the Boschians in a series of 52 matches (W47 D4).
   
• HDM lost eight of its last 11 matches and won the other three.
   
• HDM could win only one of its last 46 home duels with The Big Three (Amsterdam, Den Bosch and SCHC), against seven draws and as many as 38 defeats.
   
• Den Bosch won its last three league matches and won 10 of its last 12 games (L2). Coach Marieke Dijkstra's team lost in that series only to Kampong (4-2) and SCHC (0-4).