Heracles will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 12 points behind FC Groningen.
- Heracles haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- FC Groningen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
It's no vacation for neither Heracles nor FC Groningen as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Heracles form and stats
When playing at home in the Eredivisie, Heracles have managed 4 wins, 1 draw and suffered 4 defeats from 9 games. Heracles has recorded two wins in a row here at Polman Stadion, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
Heracles travelled for their previous game, a trip to PEC Zwolle that ended 2-2. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against SC Heerenveen.
Opportunity lost for Heracles in the PEC Zwolle match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw.
This is expected to be a close game, with Heracles perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Heracles as a small favourite), we find three games. Heracles has won zero of these, drawn zero and lost three.
Heracles have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Polman Stadion with 14 goals in 9 league matches. Heracles's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 9 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
FC Groningen form and stats
5 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of FC Groningen playing as the away team in the Eredivisie this season.
Impressive finishing from Jørgen Strand Larsen, Ramon-Pascal Lundqvist and Alessio Da Cruz secured the home win 3-0 against ADO Den Haag in their previous game. Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Vitesse's place.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Groningen in our archives, and the results are: three wins for FC Groningen, zero draws and four defeats.
The travelling fans enjoy Groningen's attacking play in away games, having scored 15 goals in 9 league matches away. In the opposite end, FC Groningen have conceded 14 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: FC Groningen - Heracles 0-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Heracles wins - draws - FC Groningen wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Vloet 8 goals |   J. Strand Larsen 8 goals |  A. El Messaoudi 6 goals |
Heracles missing players
FC Groningen missing players
| Heracles | FC Groningen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 22 | 14 | 2 | Scored | S | 6 | 15 | 28 |
| 30 | 9 | 5 | Conceded | C | 7 | 14 | 22 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 79% | 78% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 78% | 68% |
| 53% | 44% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 53% |
| 32% | 22% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 56% | 37% |
| 16% | 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 22% | 11% |
| 42% | 44% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 53% |
| 26% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 11% | 32% |
| 37% | 22% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 22% | 21% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.7 | 1.7 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.7 | 1.2 | 1.4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10.6 | 14.6 | 8.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.3 | 10.8 | 12.3 |
| 3.4 | 4.9 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.1 | 3.8 |
| 34% | 32% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 41% | 38% |
- FC Groningen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- FC Groningen haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Heracles haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 60 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 6 | 46 | 44 |
| 2 | PSV | 19 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 45 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 13 | 26 | 43 |
| 3 | Vitesse | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 19 | 41 |
| 4 | AZ | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 44 | 27 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 26 | 17 | 17 | 37 |
| 5 | Feyenoord | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 34 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 18 | 35 |
| 6 | FC Groningen | 19 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 28 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 34 |
| 7 | FC Twente | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 33 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 28 |
| 8 | FC Utrecht | 18 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 23 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -1 | 24 |
| 9 | SC Heerenveen | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 25 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 16 | -2 | 22 |
| 10 | Heracles | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 30 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 21 | -8 | 22 |
| 11 | Sparta Rotterdam | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 28 | 31 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | -3 | 21 |
| 12 | PEC Zwolle | 19 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 22 | 29 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 17 | -7 | 21 |
| 13 | Fortuna Sittard | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 26 | 36 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 16 | -10 | 19 |
| 14 | VVV-Venlo | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 28 | 45 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 18 | -17 | 19 |
| 15 | RKC Waalwijk | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 31 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 16 | -16 | 14 |
| 16 | ADO Den Haag | 19 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 44 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 24 | -28 | 11 |
| 17 | Willem II | 18 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 21 | 39 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 18 | -18 | 10 |
| 18 | FC Emmen | 19 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 47 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 30 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 17 | -30 | 6 |