Fortuna Sittard not looking forward to difficult Eredivisie clash against Ajax

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Tue 21.September
Match begins: 16:45 (UTC)
Venue: Fortuna Sittard Stadion (12500 seats)

Fortuna Sittard receive Ajax for another absorbing Eredivisie match here at Fortuna Sittard Stadion.

Insights:
  • Ajax have the most scored goals (22) in Eredivisie

It's no vacation for neither Fortuna nor Ajax as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Fortuna Sittard form and stats

Only two Eredivisie home games for Fortuna Sittard so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.

In their previous game, the manager S. Ultee led his Fortuna to a defeat in the Eredivisie match away at SC Heerenveen. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Fortuna Sittard Stadion. Yanick van Osch had a busy but productive day in the SC Heerenveen match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented. Ben Rienstra (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.01/10. Rienstra hit three key passes, dribled passed the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 56 successful passes (of 62 total).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Sparta Rotterdam (1-3).

No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Fortuna had similar winning odds as today, and found two games. In these, the hosts won zero, drew zero and lost two. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Fortuna Sittard lost one similar game by at least two goals.

There will be little rest for Fortuna after this match as they are travelling to Vitesse for a Eredivisie game in only four days.

Early season league goal statistics from Fortuna Sittard's 2 home games: 4 goals, 3 conceded.

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Ajax form and stats

Four points from two away games for Ajax, meaning one draw and one victory in the Eredivisie so far.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Ajax goalkeeper Remko Pasveer is eager to challenge this, with his 274 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Ajax are travelling after their nice 9-0 home win in the Eredivisie against SC Cambuur (placed 9th). As you can tell from the results above, Ajax was very dominant against SC Cambuur, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 9-0 (!) with Jurriën Timber, Steven Berghuis, Mohammed Daramy, Dušan Tadić, Sébastien Haller, Noussair Mazraoui, David Neres (2) and Danilo providing the goals. David Neres, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 9.84. Neres scored two goals, served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 48 successful passes (of 59 total).

Preceding that game was the away Champions League victory against Sporting CP with the score of 5-1.

Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Ajax given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed eleven matches with ten wins as expected, one draw and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won six of these games by at least two goals.

After this away game Ajax return home for a Eredivisie game against FC Groningen. That game is only four sleeps after this.

It's early days yet, but Ajax has scored 3 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last five meetings: zero - zero - five (Fortuna wins - draws - Ajax wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

AjaxS. Haller
S. Haller
5 goals
FortunaM. Seuntjens
M. Seuntjens
3 goals
AjaxD. Tadić
D. Tadić
3 goals

Fortuna Sittard missing players

Ajax missing players

Fortuna Sittard Ajax
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
4 2 0 Played P 2 2 5
1 1 0 Won W 1 1 4
1 1 0 Drew D 1 1 1
2 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
5 4 0 Scored S 3 3 22
7 3 0 Conceded C 1 1 1
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
75% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
75% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 60%
50% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 60%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 60%
75% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 20%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 50% 80%
25% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4.8 6.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 7 7 7.2
5.2 5.5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 3 3 1.6
1.8 1.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.5 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.8 9 0 Shots (avg) S ( 13 13 21.4
2.8 2.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 5 8.8
45% 80% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 30% 50%
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • Ajax have the fewest conceded goals (1) in Eredivisie
  • Ajax have the most clean sheets (4) in Eredivisie
  • Ajax have the most scored goals (22) in Eredivisie
  • Ajax have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Eredivisie
  • Ajax have the most scored goals in the second half (9) in Eredivisie
  • Ajax have the the best goal difference (+21) in Eredivisie
  • Ajax is in the best form (4-1-0)
Fortuna Sittard Last season Ajax
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   17 34
12 5   Won W   14 28
5 3   Drew D   2 4
17 9   Lost L   1 2
50 27   Scored S   49 102
58 33   Conceded C   9 23
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
85% 82%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   82% 88%
65% 76%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   59% 71%
41% 59%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   29% 47%
15% 24%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   18% 24%
62% 71%   BTTS BTTS   41% 50%
12% 12%   Clean Sheets C S   53% 47%
26% 18%   Failed to Score F T   6% 3%
 
4.1 4.9   Corners for (avg) C F   7.4 7.4
5.6 5.3   Corners against (avg) C A   2.6 3.1
1.3 1.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.1 1
2 2   Red cards R C   2 4
 
11.3 11.7   Shots (avg) S (   18.4 18.6
4.6 4.9   Shots on Target (avg) S O   7.5 7.5
32% 33%   Goal Efficiency G E   38% 40%

  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 5 4 1 0 22 1 3 3 0 0 19 0 2 1 1 0 3 1 21 13
2 PSV 4 4 0 0 14 3 2 2 0 0 9 3 2 2 0 0 5 0 11 12
3 SC Heerenveen 5 3 1 1 7 6 3 2 0 1 5 5 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 10
4 Willem II 5 3 1 1 6 5 3 2 0 1 3 5 2 1 1 0 3 0 1 10
5 FC Utrecht 5 2 2 1 9 4 3 2 1 0 9 3 2 0 1 1 0 1 5 8
6 NEC 5 2 2 1 4 6 2 1 1 0 2 0 3 1 1 1 2 6 -2 8
7 Feyenoord 3 2 0 1 7 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 5 3 4 6
8 Vitesse 4 2 0 2 3 9 1 0 0 1 0 3 3 2 0 1 3 6 -6 6
9 SC Cambuur 5 2 0 3 9 17 3 2 0 1 8 4 2 0 0 2 1 13 -8 6
10 RKC Waalwijk 5 1 2 2 8 9 2 1 0 1 2 2 3 0 2 1 6 7 -1 5
11 FC Groningen 5 1 2 2 6 9 2 0 2 0 1 1 3 1 0 2 5 8 -3 5
12 Sparta Rotterdam 5 1 2 2 5 9 3 1 2 0 5 3 2 0 0 2 0 6 -4 5
13 Fortuna Sittard 4 1 1 2 5 7 2 1 1 0 4 3 2 0 0 2 1 4 -2 4
14 FC Twente 4 1 1 2 3 5 2 1 1 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 1 4 -2 4
15 AZ 3 1 0 2 3 5 1 0 0 1 0 3 2 1 0 1 3 2 -2 3
16 Go Ahead Eagles 4 1 0 3 4 8 2 1 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 2 2 7 -4 3
17 Heracles 3 0 1 2 1 4 2 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 -3 1
18 PEC Zwolle 4 0 0 4 0 6 2 0 0 2 0 3 2 0 0 2 0 3 -6 0

Read more about Eredivisie

The Eredivisie is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. 18 teams play two fixtures against each other to form the final league table and decide which team wins the Dutch national championship. The phrase Eredivisie translates to “Honour Division”. The “big three” in Dutch football are Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord.