The home followers look for a win and three points in this game, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. NEC are in 9th position while the guesting Heracles Almelo stress at 13th.
- NEC have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in Eredivisie
- Heracles Almelo have yet to win a game away.
Heracles Almelo play their home games on artifical turf, while this fixture will take part on grass. Recent data for Heracles Almelo when featuring on grass are 4 wins, 4 draws and 18 defeats from 26 matches. They have managed to score 21 goals and conceded 57 times in these games.
NEC form and stats
NEC's struggle is real here at Goffertstadion with only 8 points collected from 8 Eredivisie games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-2-4. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for NEC, their manager Meijer and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
Nothing to worry about in defence for NEC, as their goalkeeper Mattijs Branderhorst has completely shut out the opponents for 180 minutes in the Eredivisie.
It's back home for NEC, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Willem II away with the result 1-0. Mattsson found the net in that victory. Mattsson, who plays in attack, was the top performer for the side in that fixture, receiving a rating of 7.45 (out of 10). Mattsson scored one goal and hit four key passes.
In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Go Ahead Eagles.This is expected to be a close game, with NEC perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with NEC as a small favourite), we find six games. NEC has won two of these, drawn two and lost two.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for NEC as they are travelling to their away game against FC Groningen in the KNVB Beker. That match is four days after this one.
The NEC fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 9 in 8 matches. NEC's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Heracles Almelo form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Heracles Almelo so far with only 1 point returning home. The records show 0-1-7 (win-draw-lose). Bitter travels for Heracles as they have lost seven games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Sparta Rotterdam match.
Heracles delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against SC Cambuur (placed 8th) in their previous match; a Eredivisie game. Midfielder Kiomourtzoglou was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.01. Kiomourtzoglou scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
A home win before that, celebrating 4-2 vs FC Groningen.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Heracles Almelo in our archives, and the results are: one win for Heracles, one draw and four defeats.
The attacking power of Heracles when travelling is not overwhelming with 6 goals scored from 8 league matches away. Heracles's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 14 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
The latest H2H meeting ended Heracles Almelo - NEC 0-1, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - one - four (NEC wins - draws - Heracles Almelo wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Akman 5 goals |  J. Bruijn 4 goals |  E. Tavsan 4 goals |
NEC missing players
Heracles Almelo missing players
| NEC | Heracles Almelo | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 24 | 9 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 6 | 21 |
| 26 | 10 | 0 | Conceded | C | 7 | 14 | 26 |
| 94% | 88% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 78% | 75% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 62% | 61% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 44% |
| 22% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 12% | 28% |
| 17% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 12% | 22% |
| 50% | 38% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 62% | 56% |
| 33% | 38% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 22% | 38% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 38% | 39% |
| 3.9 | 5.9 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.3 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
| 6.2 | 5.9 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 4.1 | 4 |
| 1.7 | 1.6 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.9 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11.1 | 13.8 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15.3 | 11.6 | 13.6 |
| 4.5 | 5.8 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.8 | 5 |
| 30% | 20% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 20% | 23% |
| 15.9 | 14.5 | 13.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.3 | 14.2 | 12.2 |
| 4.6 | 4.5 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.4 |
- Heracles Almelo have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Heracles Almelo have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Heracles Almelo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Heracles Almelo have yet to win a game away.
- Heracles Almelo haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- NEC have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in Eredivisie
- NEC have won significantly more 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 | PSV | 18 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 46 | 24 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 22 | 43 |
| 2 | Ajax | 18 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 56 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 52 | 42 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 42 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 25 | 39 |
| 4 | Vitesse | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 33 |
| 5 | AZ | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 35 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 32 |
| 6 | FC Twente | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 28 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 6 | 32 |
| 7 | FC Utrecht | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 33 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 29 |
| 8 | SC Cambuur | 18 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 32 | 39 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 19 | -7 | 28 |
| 9 | NEC | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 16 | -2 | 25 |
| 10 | SC Heerenveen | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | -5 | 25 |
| 11 | Go Ahead Eagles | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 16 | -10 | 21 |
| 12 | FC Groningen | 18 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 21 | -7 | 19 |
| 13 | Heracles Almelo | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 21 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 14 | -5 | 18 |
| 14 | Willem II | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 36 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 21 | -18 | 18 |
| 15 | RKC Waalwijk | 18 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -11 | 16 |
| 16 | Sparta Rotterdam | 18 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 27 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -12 | 13 |
| 17 | Fortuna Sittard | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 46 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 25 | -27 | 13 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 18 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 32 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 21 | -23 | 6 |
