Eredivisie match prediction: Little separates Fortuna Sittard and Go Ahead Eagles in quality

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sat 07.January
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fortuna Sittard Stadion (12500 seats)

Moving closer to the top teams is the target when these two mid-table teams fight it out. Both are trying to better their league table standing, Fortuna Sittard in 12th and Go Ahead Eagles in 11th spot.

Insights:
  • Go Ahead Eagles have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.

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Fortuna Sittard form and stats

With 2 Eredivisie wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats from their home games, Fortuna Sittard are certainly not brimming with confidence.

A good away victory last time out for Fortuna Sittard, who won 2-1 against Adana Demirspor. Sweet to taste a league victory after four games without.

Before that match, a Eredivisie win away at FC Groningen.

Fortuna Sittard are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 7 games. Fortuna Sittard have conceded 12 from these games.

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Go Ahead Eagles form and stats

Go Ahead Eagles have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Eredivisie, after 1-3-2 (6 played). One point away has become something of a habit for Eagles who have played out draws in their last three away games.

Go Ahead Eagles's last game was the home draw against Vitesse (2-2). It looked so good for Go Ahead Eagles vs Vitesse, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 2-2 draw. Midfielder Rommens was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 9.02. Rommens scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

A 1-1 draw at FC Twente's stadium before that.

Betting related statistic: Both teams have scored goal(s) in 8 of this club's latest 10 league matches.

Go Ahead Eagles find the net regularly in their away games. 8 goals from 6 away fixtures in the league. Eagles have conceded 10 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Fortuna Sittard victories, one draw and three Go Ahead Eagles wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Go Ahead EaglesO. Edvardsen
O. Edvardsen
5 goals
Fortuna SittardB. Yılmaz
B. Yılmaz
4 goals
Go Ahead EaglesI. Lidberg
I. Lidberg
4 goals

Fortuna Sittard missing players

Go Ahead Eagles missing players

Fortuna Sittard Go Ahead Eagles
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
14 7 2 Played P 1 6 14
4 2 0 Won W 0 1 3
3 1 1 Drew D 1 3 6
7 4 1 Lost L 0 2 5
18 9 3 Scored S 3 8 21
25 12 4 Conceded C 3 10 24
93% 86% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
79% 57% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 79%
57% 43% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 33% 43%
36% 43% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 33% 43%
29% 43% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 33% 29%
64% 43% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 64%
21% 43% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
21% 29% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 29%
 
4.8 5.7 7 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.2 4.9
7.1 5.7 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 3 6 6.3
2.4 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.7 1.4
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
11.8 15.1 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8 10.9
3.9 4.7 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 2.7 3.9
33% 27% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 75% 50% 38%
 
17.3 16.1 19.5 Shots against (avg) S A 18 17.5 15.5
6.4 5.9 7.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 5.7 5.7
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • Go Ahead Eagles have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Go Ahead Eagles haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 14 10 3 1 35 13 7 5 2 0 16 2 7 5 1 1 19 11 22 33
2 Ajax 14 9 3 2 44 17 7 4 2 1 26 7 7 5 1 1 18 10 27 30
3 PSV 14 10 0 4 42 20 7 6 0 1 25 7 7 4 0 3 17 13 22 30
4 AZ 14 9 2 3 25 16 6 3 2 1 9 7 8 6 0 2 16 9 9 29
5 FC Twente 14 8 3 3 24 9 7 6 1 0 19 2 7 2 2 3 5 7 15 27
6 Sparta Rotterdam 14 7 3 4 25 16 8 5 1 2 17 8 6 2 2 2 8 8 9 24
7 FC Utrecht 14 7 3 4 23 21 7 3 2 2 7 6 7 4 1 2 16 15 2 24
8 SC Heerenveen 14 6 5 3 16 13 7 3 2 2 7 6 7 3 3 1 9 7 3 23
9 NEC 14 3 8 3 19 16 7 1 5 1 13 9 7 2 3 2 6 7 3 17
10 RKC Waalwijk 14 4 5 5 25 28 7 3 2 2 18 13 7 1 3 3 7 15 -3 17
11 Go Ahead Eagles 14 3 6 5 21 24 8 2 3 3 13 14 6 1 3 2 8 10 -3 15
12 Fortuna Sittard 14 4 3 7 18 25 7 2 1 4 9 12 7 2 2 3 9 13 -7 15
13 Vitesse 14 3 4 7 17 30 7 1 2 4 8 19 7 2 2 3 9 11 -13 13
14 Excelsior 14 4 1 9 16 37 6 3 0 3 8 11 8 1 1 6 8 26 -21 13
15 FC Groningen 14 3 3 8 17 29 7 2 1 4 12 15 7 1 2 4 5 14 -12 12
16 FC Emmen 14 2 5 7 13 27 7 1 5 1 8 10 7 1 0 6 5 17 -14 11
17 SC Cambuur 14 2 2 10 9 22 7 1 0 6 3 9 7 1 2 4 6 13 -13 8
18 FC Volendam 14 1 3 10 13 39 7 1 0 6 7 20 7 0 3 4 6 19 -26 6

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.