Willem II knows well how to keep opponents from scoring, but at the same time has problems finding the net itself. For example, club top scorer Fran Sol has not scored for 522 minutes.
Striker without assists
Sol is also the Eredivisie player with the most goals this season without giving an assist once. Although Sol has not scored for a long time now, his replacement Obbi Oulare is on a roll. He came on loan from Watford in the winter and he scored in the last two games he played in.
Lampro u
Defensively, Willem II is actually among the better teams in the Eredivisie. That cannot be separated from the good performance of goalkeeper Kostas Lamprou. He made by far the most saves of all goalkeepers in the Eredivisie: 151. Partly because of that, Tilburgers only got 34 goals against this season.
Penalty-killer
Moreover, Willem II is the only team that has yet to get a goal against from a penalty kick. Heracles Almelo got two penalties in one minute against Willem II, but Lamprou turned one and saw the other go against the crossbar. The last one who did take a penalty against the Greek? That was Luuk de Jong last season, in the 2-0 win at home.
Five former PSV players
Funso Ojo made his premier league debut for PSV in the 0-3 win at Willem II on May 10, 2009 and played a total of 11 premier league matches for PSV from 2009 to 2011. Since July 2015, he has played for the Tilburgers, where he has featured in 23 games this season. The proportion of former PSV youth players is large at Willem II anyway. Nigel Bertrams, Freek Heerkens, Guus Joppen and Dries Wuytens were also active at De Herdgang in their younger years.
Funso Ojo as PSV player