Excelsior look forward to do battle with Fortuna Sittard in this Eredivisie fixture. All you should know about the match can be found here!
This pitch has artifical turf, which is not Fortuna Sittard's usual surface at their own field. When playing on artifical turf Fortuna Sittard have performed like this: Played ten matches resulting in 2 wins, 0 draws and 8 defeats with the goal difference 10-22 (scored/conceded).
This looks to be an intriguing match with lots of action and excitement as both sides are well recovered since they last ran out on the pitch. Game on!
Excelsior form and stats
The first Eredivisie game here at Van Donge & De Roo Stadion resulted in a draw. Last season Excelsior's home game statistics were 8 victories, 2 draws and 7 defeats from 17 games.
The spoils were shared in Excelsior's previous game, also at home. Visiting Ajax (placed 2nd) travelled back with a draw after a 2-2 scoreline. Horemans was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.02 out of 10. The defender Horemans scored one goal, hit two key passes and won 7 of 10 duels.
Before that match, a win away at NEC.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Excelsior have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 7 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 1 and lost 2.
At Van Donge & De Roo Stadion, Excelsior has the goal stats of 2-2 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.
Fortuna Sittard form and stats
One match played away so far in the Eredivisie for Fortuna Sittard and it was a tie. Last season the statistics for their away games were 5 wins, 2 draws and 10 losses from 17 games.
Fortuna Sittard are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the fixture against Almere City (placed 17th). Midfielder Loreintz was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.4. Loreintz scored one goal and hit three key passes.
A 0-0 draw at Feyenoord's stadium before that.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 6 similar matches played by Fortuna in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Fortuna Sittard, 0 draws and 4 defeats.
Fortuna Sittard have the goal stats of 0-0 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Excelsior four wins, two draws and Fortuna Sittard four victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  N. Agrafiotis 2 goals |  S. Horemans 1 goals |  C. Widell 1 goals |
Excelsior missing players
Fortuna Sittard missing players
| Excelsior | Fortuna Sittard | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 5.5 | 4 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | 10 | 10 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 8 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 6 | 4.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 12 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 14 | 17.5 |
| 4.5 | 3 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 67% | 67% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 11.5 | 15 | 15 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 22 | 15 |
| 7 | 8 | 8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 6 | 5.5 |
| Excelsior | Last season | Fortuna Sittard | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 34 | 17 | Played | P | 17 | 34 | ||
| 9 | 8 | Won | W | 5 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 20 | 7 | Lost | L | 10 | 18 | ||
| 32 | 22 | Scored | S | 18 | 39 | ||
| 71 | 26 | Conceded | C | 34 | 62 | ||
| 88% | 88% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 94% | ||
| 71% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 94% | 85% | ||
| 56% | 59% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 76% | 62% | ||
| 38% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 32% | ||
| 26% | 24% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 6% | 15% | ||
| 41% | 47% | BTTS | BTTS | 71% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 6% | 21% | ||
| 47% | 35% | Failed to Score | F T | 24% | 29% | ||
| 4.3 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.4 | ||
| 6.6 | 6.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.5 | 7.1 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.9 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 10.1 | 11.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 11.5 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.9 | ||
| 28% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 30% | ||
| 17.7 | 16.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.1 | 16.9 | ||
| 7.4 | 6.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.1 | 5.9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | PSV | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Ajax | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Excelsior | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Fortuna Sittard | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | AZ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 6 | FC Twente | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | SC Heerenveen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Sparta Rotterdam | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Go Ahead Eagles | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -1 | 3 |
| 10 | Vitesse | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -1 | 3 |
| 11 | Heracles | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
| 12 | Feyenoord | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | PEC Zwolle | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | NEC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 15 | RKC Waalwijk | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 16 | FC Utrecht | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 17 | Almere City | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -4 | 0 |
| 18 | FC Volendam | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Feyenoord | 34 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 81 | 30 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 37 | 10 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 44 | 20 | 51 | 82 |
| 2 | PSV | 34 | 23 | 6 | 5 | 89 | 40 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 54 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 26 | 49 | 75 |
| 3 | Ajax | 34 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 86 | 38 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 47 | 14 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 39 | 24 | 48 | 69 |
| 4 | AZ | 34 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 68 | 35 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 36 | 20 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 32 | 15 | 33 | 67 |
| 5 | FC Twente | 34 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 66 | 27 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 46 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 16 | 39 | 64 |
| 6 | Sparta Rotterdam | 34 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 60 | 37 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 32 | 18 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 19 | 23 | 59 |
| 7 | FC Utrecht | 34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 55 | 50 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 35 | 35 | 5 | 54 |
| 8 | SC Heerenveen | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 44 | 50 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 26 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 23 | 24 | -6 | 46 |
| 9 | RKC Waalwijk | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 50 | 64 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 34 | 26 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 38 | -14 | 41 |
| 10 | Vitesse | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 45 | 50 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 24 | 25 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 25 | -5 | 40 |
| 11 | Go Ahead Eagles | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 46 | 56 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 23 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 33 | -10 | 40 |
| 12 | NEC | 34 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 42 | 45 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 28 | 28 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 17 | -3 | 39 |
| 13 | Fortuna Sittard | 34 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 39 | 62 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 28 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 18 | 34 | -23 | 36 |
| 14 | FC Volendam | 34 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 42 | 71 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 29 | 32 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 39 | -29 | 36 |
| 15 | Excelsior | 34 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 32 | 71 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 26 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 45 | -39 | 32 |
| 16 | FC Emmen | 34 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 33 | 65 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 23 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 17 | 42 | -32 | 28 |
| 17 | SC Cambuur | 34 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 26 | 69 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 14 | 33 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 36 | -43 | 19 |
| 18 | FC Groningen | 34 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 31 | 75 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 20 | 34 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 41 | -44 | 18 |
