NEC Nijmegen vs Cambuur Leeuwarden Predictions

• NEC Nijmegen failed to score in three of their last five home games.
• Only eight promoted sides picked up more points than Cambuur at this stage of an Eredivisie season.
• Cambuur won three of their last four away games, each time as betting outsiders.

NEC’s poor home record to continue

The weekend’s Eredivisie action gets underway with a tasty looking encounter between NEC and Cambuur, two of 2020/21’s promoted sides. In fact, these sides are so tough to split given that they both challenge for the play-offs and sit amongst the top-20 performing newly promoted sides at this stage of an Eredivisie campaign in history.

The only chink in NEC’s armour so far has been their home form, they picked up 42% of their points haul here at the Goffertstadion so far. Moreover, they failed to score in three of their last five games here, a return which suggests this will be another tough encounter.

Henk de Jong to maintain solid H2H record

Visiting manager Henk de Jong boasts an impressive personal record against NEC (W3, D4, L1) and will hope to continue that here as Cambuur’s surprise play-off push gains a head of steam.

In fact, Cambuur have kept four consecutive clean sheets against NEC and it has been 447 minutes of play since a de Jong-managed side even conceded a goal against them. As such, I am going for an edgy 2-1 Cambuur win with a draw no bet being the main selection at a value price given how little there is between these teams.

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