Straining FC Groningen are eager to pull off a small shock when they welcome top team FC Twente in the next league fixture. It’s 16th vs 6th and the home fans will have so-so confidence.
- FC Groningen have yet to win a game at home.
- FC Twente have scored more than double the goals of FC Groningen.
Both teams have had a decent time to rest since their last game. Let's aim for an in-your-face fixture!
FC Groningen form and stats
Three Eredivisie home games done for FC Groningen, who are not happy collecting 2 points from these matches. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on FC Groningen to get some points in this home game.
Groningen haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 209 minutes ago. T. Suslov scored that one.
In their previous game, the manager D. Buijs led his FC Groningen to a defeat in the Eredivisie match away at Ajax. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Euroborg. Peter Leeuwenburgh had a busy but productive day in the Ajax match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented. Neraysho Kasanwirjo was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.15 out of 10. The defender Kasanwirjo won 6 of 7 duels.
Preceding that match was the home game against Vitesse that was lost 0-1.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 Groningen have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won one, drawn one and lost three.
Groningen have scored 1 goal here in 3 league matches, a depressing statistic. From these home matches, Groningen have conceded only 2 goals.
FC Twente form and stats
The visitors are W2-D0-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Eredivisie. The fact that Twente have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.
Two travels in a row for FC Twente, whose manager R. Jans could celebrate last time after the Eredivisie win against SC Heerenveen. Attacker Ricky van Wolfswinkel got a player rating of 7.93 in the game. "Man of the match" Wolfswinkel scored one goal and hit two key passes.
Prior to that match, a home win 3-1 against AZ.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with FC Twente playing away and similar expectations, we found nine relevant matches. Results were two Twente wins, three draws and four defeats.
The FC Twente manager R. Jans has got the team scoring on the road, with 8 away goals in 4 league matches. Twente struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 7 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the previous ten meetings): Groningen won two games, three matches ended in a draw and FC Twente managed five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  R. Pröpper 4 goals |  R. van Wolfswinkel 4 goals |   C. Ngonge 3 goals |
FC Groningen missing players
FC Twente missing players
| FC Groningen | FC Twente | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 13 |
| 13 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| 86% | 67% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 71% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 57% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 75% | 57% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 43% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 29% |
| 57% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 71% |
| 14% | 33% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 43% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 14% |
| 5 | 4.7 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.5 | 3.6 |
| 4.3 | 4 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 6.8 | 6.1 |
| 1.3 | 2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.7 | 12 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 12.2 | 12 |
| 3.9 | 3.3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 22% | 10% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 47% | 42% |
- All of FC Twente's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- FC Groningen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- FC Groningen have yet to win a game at home.
- FC Twente have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- FC Twente have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- FC Twente have scored more than double the goals of FC Groningen.
- FC Twente have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- FC Twente haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ajax | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 29 | 19 |
| 2 | Willem II | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 15 |
| 4 | PSV | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 5 | FC Utrecht | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 14 |
| 6 | FC Twente | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| 7 | SC Cambuur | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 13 | -3 | 12 |
| 8 | SC Heerenveen | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 9 | Vitesse | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -8 | 10 |
| 10 | NEC | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | -7 | 8 |
| 11 | Heracles | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 7 |
| 12 | AZ | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 6 |
| 13 | Sparta Rotterdam | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -8 | 6 |
| 14 | Go Ahead Eagles | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 | -9 | 6 |
| 15 | RKC Waalwijk | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 5 |
| 16 | FC Groningen | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -7 | 5 |
| 17 | Fortuna Sittard | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -7 | 5 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -11 | 1 |