Eredivisie duel: Close contest expected between NEC and PEC Zwolle

This could be an intriguing game with lots of spark and excitement as both participants are well rested since they last played a game. Bring it on!

5 - 7 - 19 with 32-62. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for PEC Zwolle when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. PEC Zwolle play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.

NEC form and stats

The previous season, NEC's league results were 12 wins, 9 draws and 8 losses, ending with 8th place in the Eerste Divisie. In these 29 matches they scored 51 goals and gave away 37. Playing as the home side in the former season NEC produced 6-5-3 (win-draw-lost) with 24 goals and 17 conceded. Two home wins in a row for NEC bring valid hopes of a third.

In their previous game, the manager R. Meijer led his NEC to a defeat in the Eredivisie match away at Ajax. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Goffertstadion. Midfielder Édgar Barreto was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.11 (out of ten) in that game. Barreto had 21 successful passes (of 26 total). As you see from the result above, NEC suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. The game against Ajax was basically lost in the first half (0-5) and the second half was more of a formality.

In the game before, an away victory in the Eredivisie Playoffs match versus NAC Breda with a 2-1 scoreline.

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 one game. NEC has won zero of these, drawn zero and lost one.

PEC Zwolle form and stats

Let's have a look at how PEC Zwolle performed last season in the Eredivisie: They landed a 13th position in the league table after playing out 9 victories, 11 draws and 14 defeats. In total they scored 44 and conceded 53 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 5 and lost 9 with 25/35 goals scored/conceded.

The manager A. Langeler was unhappy after their last game, a Eredivisie match played at their home ground MAC³PARK Stadion. PEC Zwolle suffered a 0-1 loss to Vitesse (placed 9th). Kenneth Paal, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.54. Paal hit four key passes and won 8 of 9 duels.

Before that, Zwolle secured a home win against FC Groningen with the score 1-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Zwolle in our archives, and the results are: three wins for PEC Zwolle, zero draws and one defeat.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - three - six (NEC wins - draws - PEC Zwolle wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

NEC missing players

PEC Zwolle missing players