The league standings tells us that 18 points divide the two contenders in this Eredivisie match. FC Twente hold both the points- and home stadium advantage.
- FC Twente have the fewest conceded goals (27) in Eredivisie
FC Twente are done competing for places this season; they will remain in 5th place whatever happens now. Heerenveen are staying put at 8th place whatever happens for the rest of the season.
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
Home games in the Eredivisie have been a walk in the park for FC Twente so far, with 43 points won from 17 matches; 13 wins, 4 draws and 0 losses. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as FC Twente has won five games in a row. The Sparta Rotterdam match was the last time out without a victory.
Happy days for FC Twente in their previous game, a fixture away at SC Heerenveen that ended with a 2-1 victory. A late climax in the match against SC Heerenveen as the winning goal came three minutes into overtime; scored by Ugalde. The attacker Ugalde was announced as "man of the match" for Twente with a rating of 8.03/10. Ugalde scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times.
Ahead of that match, FC Twente won a home game hosting Ajax (3-1).Twente are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 6 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 4, drew 1 and lost 1.
Goal party? Who knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 11 of the 13 most recent league games with this team has contained at least three goals.
Goals are plentiful at De Grolsch Veste in the league this season as FC Twente has scored 46 goals here in 17 home games. Twente are not conceding a lot of goals here at De Grolsch Veste in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 11 from 17 matches.
SC Heerenveen form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Eredivisie travels is 6 wins, 7 draws and 4 defeats.
Home advantage was not enough for SC Heerenveen in their previous game as they lost hosting FC Twente, 1-2. That loss was their first after four consecutive league rounds winning points. It is not a good sign for SC Heerenveen that their goalie Noppert made six saves in the FC Twente fixture, but still could not stop a loss. The attacker Sahraoui got a match rating of 7.61 in that game. Sahraoui served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 6 of 7 times.
Before that, SC Heerenveen secured a home win against Go Ahead Eagles with the score 2-0.You'll want to know how Heerenveen managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found 4 similar matches resulting in 0 away wins, 1 draw and 3 home wins.
SC Heerenveen are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 23 away goals from 17 games (in the league). 24 goals have been conceded by Heerenveen in these games.
Head 2 Head
It's not the first time these two teams face each other this campaign, as the records show this recent game: SC Heerenveen - FC Twente 1-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): FC Twente three wins, five draws and SC Heerenveen two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  S. van Hooijdonk 16 goals |   V. Černý 14 goals |  R. van Wolfswinkel 10 goals |
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| FC Twente | SC Heerenveen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 35 | 17 | 5 | Played | P | 5 | 17 | 35 |
| 19 | 13 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| 68 | 46 | 13 | Scored | S | 4 | 23 | 45 |
| 28 | 11 | 1 | Conceded | C | 13 | 24 | 52 |
| 94% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 82% | 83% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 71% | 74% |
| 57% | 76% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 60% | 47% | 57% |
| 26% | 35% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 60% | 41% | 34% |
| 9% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 40% | 24% | 20% |
| 40% | 41% | 20% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 41% | 54% |
| 49% | 59% | 80% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 35% | 29% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 60% | 41% | 34% |
| 6.3 | 6.5 | 5.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 4.1 | 4.6 |
| 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9.8 | 6 | 5.3 |
| 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17.7 | 18.9 | 19.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.4 | 11.9 | 13 |
| 5.7 | 6.5 | 6.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 4.1 | 4.5 |
| 34% | 42% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 33% | 29% |
| 11 | 10.5 | 8.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18.2 | 13.8 | 13.3 |
| 3.7 | 3 | 1.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
- All of FC Twente's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- FC Twente have not yet lost a game at home.
- FC Twente have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- FC Twente have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- FC Twente have scored in all their home matches so far.
- FC Twente have the fewest conceded goals (27) in Eredivisie
- FC Twente have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (13) in Eredivisie
- FC Twente have the most clean sheets (10) at home in Eredivisie
- FC Twente have the most clean sheets (17) in Eredivisie
- FC Twente haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 |
