Eredivisie: We're previewing an interesting and crucial fight involving Heracles Almelo and Fortuna Sittard at Erve Asito. This duo need points like a fish needs water!
- Heracles Almelo have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Eredivisie
- Fortuna Sittard have the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Eredivisie
Both sides have had time to rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's agree to expect an active match!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Fortuna Sittard have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 7-2-3 (win-draw-loss) from twelve matches.
Heracles Almelo form and stats
The story so far in the Eredivisie for Heracles Almelo at their home stadium (Erve Asito) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
Heracles Almelo are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 296 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by M. Rente).
Heracles lost their last game at FC Twente (placed 6th) after a 0-1 scoreline. Mats Knoester was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.14 out of 10. The defender Knoester won 10 of 16 duels.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting FC Twente (0-1).Heracles are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 6 games. 7 goals have been conceded.
Fortuna Sittard form and stats
0-2-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Fortuna Sittard in their Eredivisie matches away.
Home advantage was not enough for Fortuna in their previous game, as they lost their Eredivisie-match, hosting PSV, 1-4. Martin Angha, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.13. Angha won 6 of 10 duels.
A 3-4 defeat away at Go Ahead Eagles before that.Fortuna have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 5 league away games 6 goals have been scored. The Fortuna manager S. Ultee has some worries about the defense as 10 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Heracles-Fortuna Sittard H2H statistics last six meetings regardless of arena: Heracles Almelo three wins, Fortuna Sittard two wins, one draw. three of these six matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  M. Seuntjens 6 goals |   D. Burgzorg 4 goals |  R. Vloet 3 goals |
Heracles Almelo missing players
Fortuna Sittard missing players
| Heracles Almelo | Fortuna Sittard | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 11 | 7 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 16 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 10 | 25 |
| 91% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 55% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 82% |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 40% | 64% |
| 27% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 40% | 55% |
| 27% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 27% |
| 45% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 80% | 73% |
| 18% | 33% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 45% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 18% |
| 4.9 | 4 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.2 | 3.8 |
| 4.5 | 5 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 5.8 | 5.1 |
| 2.2 | 2.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13.6 | 13 | 22 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3 | 8.4 | 8.6 |
| 5.1 | 5.5 | 9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 4 | 3.3 |
| 20% | 21% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 30% | 36% |
| 11.6 | 11.5 | 5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16 | 19.4 | 17 |
| 4 | 4.3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 6.8 | 5.9 |
- Fortuna Sittard have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Fortuna Sittard have the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Eredivisie
- Fortuna Sittard have yet to win a game away.
- Fortuna Sittard haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Heracles Almelo have the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Eredivisie
- Heracles Almelo have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Eredivisie
- Heracles Almelo have won significantly less corners at home than 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 | Ajax | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 35 | 27 |
| 2 | PSV | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 20 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 27 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 25 |
| 4 | FC Utrecht | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 23 |
| 5 | Vitesse | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | -5 | 22 |
| 6 | FC Twente | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 18 |
| 7 | NEC | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 | -2 | 18 |
| 8 | SC Cambuur | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 21 | 26 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 15 | -5 | 18 |
| 9 | Willem II | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | -5 | 18 |
| 10 | Go Ahead Eagles | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 | -5 | 17 |
| 11 | AZ | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 15 |
| 12 | SC Heerenveen | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -5 | 14 |
| 13 | RKC Waalwijk | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -3 | 11 |
| 14 | Heracles Almelo | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 11 |
| 15 | FC Groningen | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -8 | 11 |
| 16 | Sparta Rotterdam | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -8 | 10 |
| 17 | Fortuna Sittard | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 25 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -12 | 9 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 15 | -15 | 4 |