Telstar vs Cambuur - prediction, team news, lineups

Eredivisie newcomers Cambuur proceed their hunt for a archetypal constituent of the 2026-27 run arsenic they question to BUKO Stadion to look Telstar connected Sunday.

Both sides statesman the play successful the bottommost 5 of the Eredivisie standings, each inactive reeling from dense defeats successful their past outings.

Match preview

Despite finishing 14th past season, Telstar went unbeaten successful their last 4 matches, collecting 10 points from a imaginable 12 to boost optimism up of the existent campaign.

A 2-1 triumph implicit NEC Nijmegen connected the opening play further lifted spirits, but Henk Brugge’s broadside person since suffered back-to-back defeats, astir precocious a 4-0 nonaccomplishment to Ajax, pursuing a 3-1 decision to Sparta Rotterdam, with Telstar missing circular 3 owed to FC Twente’s European commitments.

De Witte Leeuwen person present conceded successful 12 of their past 13 competitory matches, and specified antiaircraft frailty tin lone beryllium offset by a potent onslaught - atrocious quality for a broadside with the division’s worst attacking record, albeit with a crippled successful hand.

Telstar’s 2-0 affable triumph implicit Cambuur successful July 2025 is their lone triumph successful 11 meetings, with their past league triumph coming backmost successful 2019, erstwhile some sides were inactive successful the 2nd division.

However, with much caller top-flight acquisition than their opponents, Telstar volition presumption Sunday’s fixture arsenic an perfect accidental to get their play backmost connected way earlier a demanding tally of 3 consecutive distant games against Twente, Heerenveen, and AZ Alkmaar to circular disconnected September.

Four games, 4 defeats, and 16 goals conceded; Cambuur’s commencement to the play has been thing abbreviated of disastrous, though fixed their struggles astatine the extremity of past play and passim pre-season, fewer volition beryllium amazed by their existent predicament.

A 2-1 triumph implicit Vitesse was Cambuur’s lone triumph successful their last 5 games of past season, aft which Henk de Jong stepped down.

New brag Johan Plat made a promising commencement successful pre-season, winning 2 of his archetypal 3 friendlies, but past mislaid the adjacent three, with that mediocre signifier continuing into the caller campaign.

Unsurprisingly, the Yellow-Blues beryllium bottommost of the table, with 16 goals conceded the astir successful the division, portion lone this weekend’s opponents person scored less than Cambuur’s 4 goals truthful far, a tally matched by chap newly-promoted sides ADO Den Haag and Willem II.

Since the commencement of the 2020s, lone PEC Zwolle (2021-22) and RKC Waalwijk (2024-25) person mislaid their opening 5 Eredivisie matches of a season, truthful Cambuur volition beryllium hopeless to debar joining that unwanted database erstwhile they sojourn Telstar.

Both Sunday’s opponents person started matches slowly, with the distant broadside conceding archetypal successful each of their past 7 matches - the aforesaid arsenic the hosts successful 5 of their past six outings. As a result, the opening exchanges could beryllium pivotal successful deciding who comes retired connected top.

Telstar Eredivisie form:

Cambuur Eredivisie form:

Team News

Marvin Peersman was forced disconnected with an wounded against Ajax, leaving the Belgian's engagement for Telstar this play successful doubt.

This could unfastened the doorway for Prince Aning to marque his archetypal commencement of the season, having appeared arsenic a substitute successful each of the past 3 games.

Daan Visser remains Cambuur’s lone confirmed absentee arsenic helium continues to retrieve from a genu wounded sustained aboriginal past season.

Jorn Berkhout is simply a uncertainty for the visitors aft the 24-year-old defender was forced disconnected successful past week’s decision to Twente with an injury.

Ilyes Hamache scored wrong 3 minutes of coming disconnected the seat past clip retired and could beryllium rewarded with a commencement here.

Telstar imaginable starting lineup:

Koeman Jr; Valk, Soualhia, Peersman; Alders, Rossen, Owusu, Hardeveld; Mendes, Brouwer, Seedorf

Cambuur imaginable starting lineup:

Jansen; Costarelli, Van Duijl, Baouf, Amofa, Jetten; Henstra, Berkhout, Souren, Arguioui; Bouhoudane

We say: Telstar 2-1 Cambuur

Despite their struggles successful beforehand of goal, some Telstar and Cambuur are expected to instrumentality vantage of antiaircraft vulnerabilities and find the nett connected Sunday.

That said, we are backing Telstar to borderline a constrictive triumph and deepen Cambuur’s woes.

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