Eredivisie preview with statistics: Fortuna Sittard welcomes PSV to Fortuna Sittard Stadion

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sun 15.January
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Fortuna Sittard Stadion (12500 seats)

Fortuna Sittard played 0-2 score facing Go Ahead Eagles in their previous game, a fixture to remember. The next job is this powerful PSV team.

Insights:
  • PSV have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Eredivisie

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Fortuna Sittard form and stats

Fortuna Sittard's results here at Fortuna Sittard Stadion in the Eredivisie have been very modest with 2 victories, 1 draw and 5 defeats.

Fortuna Sittard's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-2 versus Go Ahead Eagles (placed 10th). Defender Guth got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.21/10. Guth won 4 of 9 duels.

Before that match, a win away at FC Groningen.

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 Sittard had similar winning odds as today, and found 5 games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 0 and lost 5. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Fortuna lost 3 similar games by at least two goals.

The Fortuna Sittard fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 9 in 8 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Fortuna Sittard have conceded 14 from these games.

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PSV form and stats

As the visiting team in Eredivisie matches, PSV have produced an overall stat of 4-0-3 so far.

PSV aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 220 league minutes without a goal. Gutierrez was the last player to find the net.

Two away games in a row for PSV, whose coach van Nistelrooy could celebrate last time after the KNVB Beker win against Sparta Rotterdam. Midfield player Sangaré was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.83/10. Sangaré served one assist, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 63 successful passes (of 72 total).

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Sparta Rotterdam in the Eredivisie.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, PSV are regular goalscorers on their travels. PSV have conceded 13 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

PSV have been victorious in every one of the 8 most recent battles versus this opponent. Will the streak continue?

Top Goalscorers

PSVX. Simons
X. Simons
8 goals
PSVG. Til
G. Til
5 goals
Fortuna SittardB. Yılmaz
B. Yılmaz
4 goals

Fortuna Sittard missing players

PSV missing players

Fortuna Sittard PSV
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 8 1 Played P 2 7 15
4 2 0 Won W 0 4 10
3 1 0 Drew D 0 0 1
8 5 1 Lost L 2 3 4
18 9 2 Scored S 2 17 42
27 14 3 Conceded C 7 13 20
93% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
80% 62% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 73%
53% 38% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 86% 73%
33% 38% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 43% 47%
27% 38% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 43% 47%
60% 38% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 71% 60%
20% 38% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 27%
27% 38% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 14% 20%
 
4.7 5.5 3 Corners for (avg) C F 8.5 6.6 6.9
7.3 6.2 10 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 4.7 3.9
2.5 2.6 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 1 0.7
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.7 14.5 13 Shots (avg) S ( 20 17.4 18.3
3.9 4.5 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 7.1 7.3
31% 25% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 15% 34% 39%
 
17.3 16.2 18 Shots against (avg) S A 13.5 12.4 10.9
6.3 5.8 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 4 3.7
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • PSV have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • PSV have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • PSV have scored more than double the goals of Fortuna Sittard.
  • PSV have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Eredivisie
  • PSV 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 15 10 4 1 36 14 7 5 2 0 16 2 8 5 2 1 20 12 22 34
2 Ajax 15 9 4 2 45 18 7 4 2 1 26 7 8 5 2 1 19 11 27 31
3 PSV 15 10 1 4 42 20 8 6 1 1 25 7 7 4 0 3 17 13 22 31
4 FC Twente 15 9 3 3 26 9 8 7 1 0 21 2 7 2 2 3 5 7 17 30
5 AZ 15 9 3 3 26 17 7 3 3 1 10 8 8 6 0 2 16 9 9 30
6 Sparta Rotterdam 15 7 4 4 25 16 8 5 1 2 17 8 7 2 3 2 8 8 9 25
7 FC Utrecht 15 7 4 4 24 22 8 3 3 2 8 7 7 4 1 2 16 15 2 25
8 SC Heerenveen 15 6 6 3 16 13 7 3 2 2 7 6 8 3 4 1 9 7 3 24
9 NEC 15 3 9 3 20 17 8 1 6 1 14 10 7 2 3 2 6 7 3 18
10 Go Ahead Eagles 15 4 6 5 23 24 8 2 3 3 13 14 7 2 3 2 10 10 -1 18
11 RKC Waalwijk 15 4 6 5 25 28 8 3 3 2 18 13 7 1 3 3 7 15 -3 18
12 Excelsior 15 5 1 9 17 37 7 4 0 3 9 11 8 1 1 6 8 26 -20 16
13 Fortuna Sittard 15 4 3 8 18 27 8 2 1 5 9 14 7 2 2 3 9 13 -9 15
14 Vitesse 15 3 5 7 18 31 7 1 2 4 8 19 8 2 3 3 10 12 -13 14
15 FC Groningen 15 3 3 9 17 30 7 2 1 4 12 15 8 1 2 5 5 15 -13 12
16 FC Emmen 15 2 5 8 13 29 7 1 5 1 8 10 8 1 0 7 5 19 -16 11
17 FC Volendam 15 2 3 10 16 39 7 1 0 6 7 20 8 1 3 4 9 19 -23 9
18 SC Cambuur 15 2 2 11 9 25 8 1 0 7 3 12 7 1 2 4 6 13 -16 8

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.