- The last three head-to-heads, when Almere City were the home team, have averaged 2.0 goals per match.
- Almere City average 2.38 goals per home league game in the Eerste Divisie 2025/2026, scoring 19 times in eight home games.
Hosts have the firepower to break VVV’s defensive solidity
Both Almere City and VVV Venlo are in mid-table positions in the Eerste Divisie 2025/2026 standings, with the hosts in 13th with 17 points from 15 games and the visitors ninth with 21 points after as many games. This Almere City vs VVV Venlo preview is a good test of how each manager’s tactics are working out in the second half of the season with both likely to be looking for the win.
Jeroen Rijsdijk took charge of the hosts in January 2025 and has made a positive impact in the time he has had to implement his high-tempo, width-first game. The Almere City boss has made his side press aggressively and use their wide players to transition rapidly, and it has led to three consecutive wins in all competitions, with a 4-0 home thrashing of MVV Maastricht and a KNVB Cup win at VV Sparta Nijkerk.
His opposite number for this game is Peter Uneken, who joined VVV in October 2025 and has started to make his mark on the team by making some subtle and some not-so-subtle pragmatic tweaks to a structured, risk-managed game plan. VVV have won two and lost three of their last five games, bouncing back from a 1-2 home defeat to SBV Vitesse by winning 2-0 away to AZ Alkmaar Reserves last weekend. This Almere City vs VVV Venlo prediction is shaping up to be an intriguing tactical battle as both managers look for crucial points.
Almere can outplay Venlo in an open game
Both teams met in the 2022/2023 season when this fixture was played in the top-flight, with Almere winning 3-1 at home. Since then, the head-to-head record has been very even with one win and one draw apiece, but we’re favoring the home side to edge this one given their form and firepower according to our Almere City vs VVV Venlo prediction.
Byron Burgering leads the team scoring charts with eight goals in 15 Eerste Divisie 2025/2026 matches while Julian Rijkhoff has been in fine form recently, scoring three of his team’s seven goals in the last five matches. VVV’s leading goal-scorer is Bjorn van Zijl, who has four in 11 and Lars de Blok has bagged two of their four goals in the last five.
This is why our Almere City vs VVV Venlo betting tips suggest focusing on a high-scoring affair. Almere City are 1.67 favorites for this matchup and VVV are 4.47 underdogs, which looks like an overreaction by the market. The Over 2.5 goals option at 1.51 makes sense in the odds given both clubs have been averaging over a goal per game and the average for both clubs in the three head-to-heads when Almere hosted was 2.0.
