Home advantage could prove decisive in NEC - Go Ahead Eagles battle

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sun 23.October
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Goffertstadion (12500 seats)

NEC have enginereed 0 home victories so far, Go Ahead Eagles have won 1 away. Who betters their standings in this meeting?

Insights:
  • NEC have the fewest matches over the total-line (1) in Eredivisie
  • Go Ahead Eagles have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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NEC form and stats

Overall Eredivisie stats playing at home this season for NEC are 0-4-1 (wins-draws-losses). The home supporters have been following results with a growing disbelief as NEC has racked up an amazing four draws in a row here at their own stadium. How long will this continue?

NEC's previous match was a KNVB Beker game also played at their own stadium, ending 3-2 against Fortuna Sittard. The home side are looking to continue in that form. Until that fixture this team had gone eight consecutive league rounds without a defeat. Mattsson, who usually features in attack, was the top performer for the team in that match, receiving a rating of 7.73 (out of 10). Mattsson hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 4 of 5 times and had 43 successful passes (of 51 total).

A Eredivisie defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Sparta Rotterdam.

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 NEC have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 11 games) they have won 6 times, drawn 3 and lost 2.

Not much happening? Looking at this team's last 10 league games, 9 have had two goals or less.

NEC have scored {4 league goals} here from 5 matches, not a lot.

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Go Ahead Eagles form and stats

Playing away, Go Ahead Eagles have won 1 game, drawn 1 and suffered 2 defeats in the Eredivisie this season. The last three matches for Go Ahead Eagles have all ended in a draw.

The regulars enjoyed Go Ahead Eagles's previous fixture versus Helmond Sport, a KNVB Beker win (3-1) played at home.

Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs SC Heerenveen.

Go Ahead Eagles are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.

Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Eagles have conceded 6 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

NEC-Go Ahead Eagles H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: NEC four wins, Go Ahead Eagles three wins, three draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

NECI. Márquez Álvarez
I. Márquez Álvarez
2 goals
Go Ahead EaglesB. Kuipers
B. Kuipers
2 goals

NEC missing players

Go Ahead Eagles missing players

NEC Go Ahead Eagles
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 0 4 10
1 0 0 Won W 0 1 2
7 4 1 Drew D 0 1 3
2 1 0 Lost L 0 2 5
9 4 1 Scored S 0 4 12
9 5 1 Conceded C 0 6 17
80% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 90%
70% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 70%
10% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 30%
10% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 30%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 30%
60% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 50%
20% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 20%
40% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 40%
 
6 7.6 7 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4.2 5.1
5.8 6.6 6 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6.8 6.5
1.3 1.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.8 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
13.1 15.2 15 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7.2 11.5
4.7 6 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.5 3.9
19% 13% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 40% 31%
 
15.9 13.4 16 Shots against (avg) S A 0 17 16.4
5.8 5 7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 6.5 6.6
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • Go Ahead Eagles have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Go Ahead Eagles haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • NEC have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • NEC have the fewest matches over the total-line (1) in Eredivisie
  • NEC have the most matches under the total-line (9) in Eredivisie
  • NEC have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • NEC have yet to win a game at home.
  • NEC 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 10 8 1 1 34 9 5 4 1 0 23 3 5 4 0 1 11 6 25 25
2 PSV 10 8 0 2 35 14 5 5 0 0 22 6 5 3 0 2 13 8 21 24
3 Feyenoord 10 7 2 1 26 11 4 3 1 0 9 0 6 4 1 1 17 11 15 23
4 AZ 10 7 2 1 20 10 5 2 2 1 7 6 5 5 0 0 13 4 10 23
5 FC Twente 10 6 1 3 18 7 5 5 0 0 15 1 5 1 1 3 3 6 11 19
6 Sparta Rotterdam 10 5 2 3 16 11 6 4 0 2 13 6 4 1 2 1 3 5 5 17
7 RKC Waalwijk 10 3 5 2 20 14 5 2 2 1 14 8 5 1 3 1 6 6 6 14
8 SC Heerenveen 10 3 5 2 9 9 5 2 2 1 4 3 5 1 3 1 5 6 0 14
9 FC Utrecht 10 3 3 4 12 18 5 1 2 2 2 4 5 2 1 2 10 14 -6 12
10 Fortuna Sittard 10 3 2 5 13 18 6 2 1 3 9 11 4 1 1 2 4 7 -5 11
11 NEC 10 1 7 2 9 9 5 0 4 1 4 5 5 1 3 1 5 4 0 10
12 Excelsior 10 3 1 6 12 27 4 2 0 2 6 9 6 1 1 4 6 18 -15 10
13 Go Ahead Eagles 10 2 3 5 12 17 6 1 2 3 8 11 4 1 1 2 4 6 -5 9
14 SC Cambuur 10 2 2 6 8 17 5 1 0 4 3 7 5 1 2 2 5 10 -9 8
15 Vitesse 10 2 2 6 11 21 5 0 2 3 6 14 5 2 0 3 5 7 -10 8
16 FC Groningen 10 2 2 6 10 22 5 1 1 3 6 10 5 1 1 3 4 12 -12 8
17 FC Emmen 10 1 3 6 8 22 5 1 3 1 5 7 5 0 0 5 3 15 -14 6
18 FC Volendam 10 1 3 6 11 28 4 1 0 3 6 11 6 0 3 3 5 17 -17 6

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.