Go Ahead Eagles - Heracles in Eredivisie: Numbers, team selections, games, trends and headlines. Check out our comprehensive preview!
- Go Ahead Eagles have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Heracles have yet to win a game away.
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!
Heracles play their home games on artifical turf, while this fixture is played on grass. Relevant statistics for Heracles when featuring on grass are 4 wins, 5 draws and 13 defeats from 22 matches. They have created 16 goals and conceded 47 times in these games.
Go Ahead Eagles form and stats
When playing at home in the Eredivisie, Go Ahead Eagles have managed 2 wins, 0 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 4 games.
Go Ahead Eagles travelled for their previous game, a trip to RKC Waalwijk that ended 1-1. Iñigo Cordoba (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.6/10. Cordoba scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Heartbreak before that as Eagles lost 0-5 at AZ's place.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Eagles have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won three, drawn one and lost one.
Eagles are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 4 goals in 4 games. Go Ahead Eagles have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Heracles form and stats
The Eredivisie season is young and Heracles have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 2 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 1 defeat so far.
Heracles won their last game, 3-2 versus Willem II played at home. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager F. Wormuth when Ismail Azzaoui scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 68th minute. Late drama in the previous game, when Ismail Azzaoui scored the winning goal three minutes into stoppage time to defeat Willem II. Marco Rente, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.05. Rente hit one key pass and won 10 of 10 duels.
A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs RKC Waalwijk.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Heracles in our archives, and the results are: one win for Heracles, two draws and three defeats.
Heracles have the goal stats of 2-3 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's two Eagles victories, one draw and five Heracles wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Burgzorg 4 goals |   I. Córdoba Kerejeta 3 goals |  G. Botos 2 goals |
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| 16 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 71% |
| 38% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 43% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 38% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 57% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 38% | 25% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 3.6 | 3.8 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 9 | 9.5 | 5.9 |
| 5.9 | 6.5 | 11 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.5 | 4.4 |
| 1.4 | 0.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11.9 | 13.2 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 14.5 | 14.3 |
| 4.4 | 4.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.5 | 5.6 |
| 20% | 21% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 18% | 23% |
- All of Heracles's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Go Ahead Eagles have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Go Ahead Eagles haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Heracles have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Heracles have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
- Heracles have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Heracles have yet to win a game away.
- Heracles haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 28 | 19 |
| 2 | PSV | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 3 | FC Utrecht | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 17 |
| 4 | Willem II | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 16 |
| 5 | Feyenoord | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 15 |
| 6 | FC Twente | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 14 |
| 7 | SC Heerenveen | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 13 |
| 8 | Vitesse | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -7 | 13 |
| 9 | SC Cambuur | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 13 | -5 | 12 |
| 10 | NEC | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 12 | -5 | 11 |
| 11 | Heracles | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 10 |
| 12 | AZ | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 9 |
| 13 | Go Ahead Eagles | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 13 | -9 | 7 |
| 14 | RKC Waalwijk | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 6 |
| 15 | FC Groningen | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -7 | 6 |
| 16 | Sparta Rotterdam | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -9 | 6 |
| 17 | Fortuna Sittard | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -9 | 5 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -12 | 1 |