H2H: PSV vs Willem II – Prediction (Eredivisie

H2H: PSV v Willem II – Comparison.

Youngster Chukwunonso Madueke has scored four goals across three league home games for PSV this season. Meanwhile, Vangelis Pavlidis has scored Willem’s first goal in both of his goalscoring league matches this season. Thirty-four (79.07%) of PSV’s last 43 Eredivisie wins have come via a margin of at least two goals.

PSV Insights.

Leading 1-0 at half-time in all three home league matches this season, PSV enter the round after three wins from their last five league matches. Impressively, PSV are on a run of 67 league matches since their last goalless draw, and indeed, six straight matches across all competitions have featured over 2.5 total goals (W3, L3) – as have 15 of their last 17 league victories. Clear favourites to overcome Willem II, ‘Die Boeren’ have won all 17 H2Hs held here since the turn of the century and have scored 4.5 goals on average across the four most recent instalments. Additionally, five of the last seven H2Hs have featured PSV win and overcome a -2.5 handicap.

Willem II Insights.

Willem II, meanwhile, are winless in five league matches (D2, L3), and have worryingly conceded 3+ goals in their last four defeats across all competitions. With just one win so far, they enter the round just three points from the bottom of the table, conceding close to double (13) as many as they have scored (seven) so far. They have nonetheless stemmed a tide of away defeats with two straight draws away from home. Before that, they lost four in a row whilst conceding 2.25 goals on average. Furthermore, the home side have been awarded a second-half red card in back to back away matches involving them.