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● FC Emmen has won only two of the last sixteen First Division meetings with Helmond Sport (G5, V9), but the first leg in November 2023 (1-2); Emmen can play both matches for the first time since 2007/08 winning with the Brabanders in one KKD season.

● Helmond Sport has so far collected 47 points in the current year and can win for the first time since 2013/14 achieve at least fifty points in a First Division season (51 at the time).

● Anthony van den Hurk scored his 78th and 79th goal in the First Division since Van den Hurk’s first goal in the competition in February 2013, only three players scored at least eighty times in the KKD: Robert Mühren (129), Ralf Seuntjens (117) and Thomas Verheydt (102).

Helmond Sport was written off. Dead and buried after the mistake in Maastricht three weeks ago. The play-offs in the Kitchen Champion Division were unattainable for the ambitious club. But after two victories under an interim coaching duo, everything is different.

Read the preview of the match against FC Emmen here.

Helmond Sport with the expected eleven. The same line-up as against Jong Ajax. Tarik Essakkati is missing from the selection, he is ill. On Saturday he talked extensively about his development in the newspaper.

Bend or crack? Do or die? Helmond Sport is still playing for marbles in Emmen tonight. With a win, the team of interim coach Adrie Bogers will be on level terms with MVV Maastricht. That ninth place entitles you to the play-offs.