This looks to be another appealing encounter at De Grolsch Veste in the Eredivisie. FC Twente is in 6th place and welcome Excelsior in 7th place. Learn more about the match here!
FC Twente's stadium, De Grolsch Veste, has a grass surface. Excelsior have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Excelsior when playing on grass; 6 wins, 3 draws and 7 losses from 16 matches. They have scored 24 goals in these games and conceded 29.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
FC Twente form and stats
The hosts won their first Eredivisie game here at De Grolsch Veste, lifting spirits. Home statistics for FC Twente last season were 10 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses from 17 games.
The supporters are hoping that Twente will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the match against FC Volendam (placed 12th). The first loss after collecting points in three league fixtures. Midfielder Sadílek was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.8 (out of ten) in that game. Sadílek hit three key passes and had 44 successful passes (of 54 total).
A 0-0 result against Fiorentina before that one, played at their own home stadium in the Europa Conference League.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Eredivisie game versus PSV in only three days. This game is also played here at De Grolsch Veste.
FC Twente has scored 3 goals so far and conceded 0 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Excelsior form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Eredivisie travels is 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats.
Excelsior failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs PSV (placed 3rd) that ended with defeat 1-6. Excelsior lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-6 beating and focus on this one. It is a bit worrying for Excelsior that their keeper van Gassel managed seven saves in the PSV fixture, but still could not prevent a beating. Defender Horemans was the best team player with a rating of 6.81. Horemans scored one goal and won 6 of 10 duels.
A home win before that, celebrating 3-1 vs Vitesse.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Excelsior manager Dijkhuizen as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against RKC Waalwijk.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Excelsior has managed 2 goals and let in 0 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Excelsior have avoided a loss in the last 4 games (2-2-0) versus Twente.Top Goalscorers
  R. Kharchouch 2 goals |   V. Misidjan 1 goals |  R. van Wolfswinkel 1 goals |
FC Twente missing players
Excelsior missing players
| FC Twente | Excelsior | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 33% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 33% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 67% |
| 67% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 33% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 9.7 | 10 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 3.7 | 1 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 10 | 9 |
| 0.7 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 0.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16.3 | 19 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6 | 8.3 |
| 5 | 8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 4.7 |
| 27% | 38% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 67% | 43% |
| 8.7 | 5 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 29 | 25 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 8 | 8.7 |
| FC Twente | Last season | Excelsior | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 34 | 17 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | ||
| 20 | 10 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | ||
| 55 | 28 | Scored | S | 9 | 15 | ||
| 37 | 13 | Conceded | C | 5 | 8 | ||
| 97% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 50% | 47% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 50% | ||
| 15% | 6% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 17% | ||
| 56% | 47% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 67% | ||
| 38% | 53% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 33% | ||
| 9% | 6% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | ||
| 4 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 4.2 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.3 | 6.3 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 1.3 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13.1 | 16.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 15.5 | ||
| 4.5 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 8 | 7.5 | ||
| 36% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 33% | ||
| 11 | 9.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18 | 14.8 | ||
| 3.6 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.3 | 5.7 | ||
| 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 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 12 |
| 2 | Feyenoord | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 3 | PSV | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 9 |
| 4 | AZ | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | SC Heerenveen | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | FC Twente | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | Excelsior | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | -1 | 6 |
| 8 | FC Groningen | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 5 |
| 9 | NEC | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | SC Cambuur | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 11 | Sparta Rotterdam | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -1 | 4 |
| 12 | FC Volendam | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 4 |
| 13 | FC Emmen | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | -6 | 4 |
| 14 | RKC Waalwijk | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| 15 | FC Utrecht | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 2 |
| 16 | Vitesse | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -9 | 1 |
| 17 | Go Ahead Eagles | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -7 | 0 |
| 18 | Fortuna Sittard | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -8 | 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 | Ajax | 34 | 26 | 5 | 3 | 98 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 62 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 36 | 11 | 79 | 83 |
| 2 | PSV | 34 | 26 | 3 | 5 | 86 | 42 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 49 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 37 | 20 | 44 | 81 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 34 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 76 | 34 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 39 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 37 | 17 | 42 | 71 |
| 4 | FC Twente | 34 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 55 | 37 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 28 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 24 | 18 | 68 |
| 5 | AZ | 34 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 64 | 44 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 36 | 20 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 28 | 24 | 20 | 61 |
| 6 | Vitesse | 34 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 42 | 51 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 29 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 22 | -9 | 51 |
| 7 | FC Utrecht | 34 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 51 | 46 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 32 | 20 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 26 | 5 | 47 |
| 8 | SC Heerenveen | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 37 | 50 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 23 | 26 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 24 | -13 | 41 |
| 9 | SC Cambuur | 34 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 53 | 70 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 29 | 35 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 24 | 35 | -17 | 39 |
| 10 | RKC Waalwijk | 34 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 40 | 51 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 25 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 23 | 26 | -11 | 38 |
| 11 | NEC | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 38 | 52 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 25 | 30 | -14 | 38 |
| 12 | FC Groningen | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 41 | 55 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 21 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 34 | -14 | 36 |
| 13 | Go Ahead Eagles | 34 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 37 | 51 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 25 | 24 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 27 | -14 | 36 |
| 14 | Sparta Rotterdam | 34 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 30 | 48 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 27 | -18 | 35 |
| 15 | Fortuna Sittard | 34 | 10 | 5 | 19 | 36 | 67 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 20 | 31 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 36 | -31 | 35 |
| 16 | Heracles | 34 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 33 | 49 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 21 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 28 | -16 | 34 |
| 17 | Willem II | 34 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 32 | 57 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 37 | -25 | 33 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 34 | 7 | 6 | 21 | 26 | 52 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 20 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 32 | -26 | 27 |
