Eredivisie: Fortuna Sittard - RKC Waalwijk match guide and the hard facts

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

Fortuna Sittard's stadium, Fortuna Sittard Stadion, has a grass surface. RKC Waalwijk have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for RKC Waalwijk when playing on grass; 4 wins, 3 draws and 18 losses from 25 matches. They have scored 29 goals in these games and conceded 57.

Fortuna Sittard form and stats

In the previous season, Fortuna Sittard's league statistics were 12 wins, 5 draws and 17 losses, ending with 11th place in the Eredivisie. Over these 34 matches they scored 50 goals and conceded 58. Appearing as the home side in the previous season Fortuna Sittard managed 5-3-9 (win-draw-lost) with 27 goals and 33 conceded. The hosts won their first Eredivisie game here at Fortuna Sittard Stadion, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Fortuna Sittard last season were 5 wins, 3 draws and 9 losses from 17 games.

A nice win for Fortuna last time playing, versus FC Twente. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with Toshio Lake and Mats Seuntjens scoring for the victors. Midfielder Tesfaldet Tekie was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.63 (out of ten) in that game. Tekie served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled passed the opponent 3 of 4 times. The victory against FC Twente came after Toshio Lake's winning goal. The Fortuna Sittard manager S. Ultee was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 60th minute.

Prior to that, an away loss at Willem II.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Fortuna have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eight games) they have won six times, drawn two and lost zero.

Fortuna Sittard has scored 2 goals so far and conceded 1 goal from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

RKC Waalwijk form and stats

The visitors' first away game in the Eredivisie ended in defeat. Last season RKC Waalwijk had these away match statistics: Played 17; won 2, drew 5 and lost 10.

There might be some fixture complaints from Waalwijk as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Eredivisie match against SC Heerenveen (2-3). Midfielder Alexander Büttner was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.71. Büttner served one assist, hit five key passes, dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 28 successful passes (of 34 total).

That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus AZ Alkmaar.

We have checked recent matches where Waalwijk have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those eight games were one victory, zero draws and seven defeats.

RKC Waalwijk have the goal stats of 2-3 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Fortuna victories, two draws and three RKC Waalwijk wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

M. Seuntjens 1 goals

T. Lake 1 goals

R. van der Venne 1 goals

Fortuna Sittard missing players

RKC Waalwijk missing players