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The stats of the weekend: Jansen rakes in the assists, Boers nears milestone
The Amsterdam men failed to secure a win in the Klassieker for the eighteenth time in a row, whilst Kampong midfielder Eline Jansen is emerging as the assist queen. Here are the figures from the past weekend.
Staatsloterij Hoofdklasse Women
0 – For the first time this season, SCHC midfielder Yibbi Jansen failed to score. She had scored in eight consecutive Hoofdklasse matches.
1 – After seven match rounds, league leaders Den Bosch are the only team yet to drop any points.
1 – Bottom-of-the-table Victoria are the only team still without a point this season.
1 - Kampong played their fourth home match of the season against HGC, but secured their first home win of the campaign (6–0).
1 – HDM player Belén van den Broek scored her first hat-trick in her Hoofdklasse career against Victoria (3–4 away win).
5 – After seven match rounds, five players have already scored a hat-trick in a match against bottom-of-the-table Victoria: Bente van der Veldt (Kampong), Sanne Caarls (Hurley), Maria Steensma (Pinoké), Frédérique Matla (Den Bosch) and Belén van den Broek (HDM).
5 – Kampong midfielder Eline Jansen tops the assists table after seven match rounds with five decisive crosses that led to goals for her teammates.
6 – In the top match at SCHC (0–2), Den Bosch kept a clean sheet for the sixth match in a row and have conceded just one goal this season.
6 - For the first time in history, Kampong won a home match against HGC by a margin of six goals .
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10 - Kampong forward Iris de Kemp has already scored ten goals following her hat-trick against HGC, beating her personal best from last season (seven goals).
13 - Den Bosch forward Frédérique Matla scored one of the two goals against SCHC (0–2 away win) and has now scored in thirteen consecutive match rounds.
25 – Kampong have already scored 25 goals this season, the highest tally ever for the Utrecht side after the first seven match rounds.
30 – Bottom-of-the-table Victoria’s goal difference this season stands at -30. That is the worst goal difference ever in the Hoofdklasse after the first seven match rounds. The previous record was held by Push, Bloemendaal and Victoria themselves at -29.
33 – Amsterdam remained unbeaten for the 33rd consecutive time in a match against Bloemendaal (7–0). This is the longest unbeaten run against a single opponent in the club’s history.
40 – The matches between Pinoké (goals scored 17–23) and Victoria (5–35) have so far produced the most goals: forty in total.
42 – The defeat against Den Bosch brought an end to SCHC’s run of 42 league matches without defeat. The team from Bilthoven also failed to score for the first time in 42 matches.
184 – After seven match rounds, the tally in the women’s league stands at 184 goals, an average of 4.38 per match. Only four Hoofdklasse seasons have seen a higher tally after 42 matches.
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Staatsloterij Hoofdklasse Men
0 – Schaerweijde and Tilburg are still without a point after seven match rounds. Only once before have two teams in the Hoofdklasse Men been on zero points after their first seven matches: Union and HDM in 2001–02.
2 – Den Bosch defender Timo Boers scored three times against Klein Zwitserland (8–1), netting his second hat-trick of the season.
3 – Kampong kept a clean sheet in three of their first six league matches. The club has only twice started a season with more clean sheets (four), in 1973–74 and 1989–90.
3 – Boers is now just three goals away from his 100th goal in the Hoofdklasse.
4 – Boers’ team-mate Thierry Brinkman scored twice against KZ and is now just four goals away from his 150th goal in the Hoofdklasse.
6 – National champions Rotterdam have only six points after seven match rounds. Only in the 2002–2003 season did they have fewer points (two).
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7 - After seven match rounds, Kampong have conceded just seven goals, the fewest of any club. A minor caveat: like Oranje-ROOD, the Utrecht side have played only six matches.
8 - Den Bosch scored eight times against Klein Zwitserland and, with an 8-1 victory, recorded their biggest ever home win against the team from The Hague.
10 - Boers’ three goals against KZ bring his tally to ten hat-tricks in his Hoofdklasse career, a new club record.
17 – Kampong also remained unbeaten in their seventeenth home match against Schaerweijde (1–0) (W16 D1).
18 – Amsterdam once again failed to beat their arch-rivals Bloemendaal (2–2) and have now gone eighteen matches in a row without a win against The Mussen.
31 – Oranje-Rood remained unbeaten in the regular league for the 31st consecutive match following their 1–2 victory at Rotterdam. This is now the fourth-longest unbeaten run in Hoofdklasse history.
