Eredivisie: Feyenoord expected to beat SC Heerenveen

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

Feyenoord form and stats

Last season, Feyenoord's league stats were 22 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses, results that produced 3rd position in the Eredivisie. In these 34 matches they scored 76 goals and gave away 34. Appearing as the home team in the last season Feyenoord generated 11-3-3 (win-draw-lost) with 39 goals and 17 conceded.

It's back home for Feyenoord, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Vitesse away with the result 5-2. Dilrosun, Geertruida, Wålemark and Danilo (2) found the net in that victory. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? Midfielder Szymański was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.14 (out of ten) in that game. Szymański signed up for two assists and hit three key passes.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Feyenoord home games with this odds we find 8 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. Looking at the victories, 4 matches were won by at least two goals.

SC Heerenveen form and stats

Let's have a look at how SC Heerenveen performed last season in the Eredivisie: They landed a 8th position in the league table after playing out 11 victories, 8 draws and 15 defeats. In total they scored 37 and conceded 50 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 5 - drew 5 and lost 7 with 14/24 goals scored/conceded.

SC Heerenveen aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 180 league minutes without a goal. Halilovic was the last player to find the net.

Heerenveen's last game was the home draw against Sparta Rotterdam (0-0). van Beek was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.64. The defender Beek won 3 of 5 duels.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where SC Heerenveen played away with similar odds. This revealed 4 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 4 times.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Feyenoord seven wins, one draw and SC Heerenveen two victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

D. Pereira da Silva 2 goals

L. Geertruida 1 goals

P. Wålemark 1 goals

Feyenoord missing players

SC Heerenveen missing players