Delightful dogfight as daring PEC Zwolle duels with determined Fortuna Sittard

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sat 16.January
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: MAC³PARK Stadion (12500 seats)

With their 1 point advantage in the league table, PEC Zwolle fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Fortuna Sittard.

Insights:
  • Fortuna Sittard have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Zwolle and Fortuna Sittard.

2 - 3 - 4 with 13-16. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Fortuna Sittard when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Fortuna Sittard play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.

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PEC Zwolle form and stats

Overall Eredivisie stats at home this season for PEC Zwolle are 2-4-2 (wins-draw-losses). Zwolle have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

Zwolle are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Feyenoord. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus AZ Alkmaar.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Zwolle handle that role? We have found two games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are one win, one draw and zero defeats.

PEC Zwolle has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. 8 goals have been conceded.

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Fortuna Sittard form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Fortuna Sittard so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-4 (win-draw-lose).

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Eredivisie home defeat versus Sparta Rotterdam with 0-1 on the scoreboard. Ahead of that match was the victory versus SC Heerenveen at their stadium, the result 3-1.

We have checked recent matches where Fortuna Sittard have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those three games were zero victories, two draws and one defeat.

Fortuna are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 8 games (in the league). It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. The Fortuna manager S. Ultee has some worries about the defense as 16 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Fortuna Sittard - Zwolle 2-2 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Zwolle five wins, three draws and Fortuna Sittard two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Fortuna SittardS. Polter
S. Polter
6 goals
Fortuna SittardZ. Flemming
Z. Flemming
5 goals
Fortuna SittardG. Cox
G. Cox
4 goals

PEC Zwolle missing players

Fortuna Sittard missing players

PEC Zwolle Fortuna Sittard
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
16 8 2 Played P 3 8 16
3 2 0 Won W 2 2 4
8 4 2 Drew D 1 2 4
5 2 0 Lost L 0 4 8
17 8 0 Scored S 6 10 23
24 8 0 Conceded C 3 16 34
88% 75% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
81% 75% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 94%
44% 38% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 50% 69%
31% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 38% 56%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 19%
50% 38% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 62% 75%
25% 38% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
38% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 38% 25%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.9 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.5 1.9
3 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.6 14.4 17.5 Shots (avg) S ( 10.3 10.9 11.8
4.2 4.5 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.3 4 4.6
25% 22% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 46% 31% 32%
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • All of Fortuna Sittard's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Fortuna Sittard have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Fortuna Sittard haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 15 11 2 2 54 12 8 6 1 1 27 8 7 5 1 1 27 4 42 35
2 Feyenoord 16 10 5 1 32 12 8 4 4 0 13 5 8 6 1 1 19 7 20 35
3 Vitesse 16 11 2 3 27 12 8 7 1 0 15 3 8 4 1 3 12 9 15 35
4 PSV 16 10 4 2 36 16 8 7 0 1 19 6 8 3 4 1 17 10 20 34
5 AZ Alkmaar 16 8 7 1 39 24 7 4 2 1 16 9 9 4 5 0 23 15 15 31
6 FC Twente 15 8 3 4 30 19 8 3 2 3 13 11 7 5 1 1 17 8 11 27
7 FC Groningen 15 8 3 4 20 17 8 4 2 2 8 6 7 4 1 2 12 11 3 27
8 Sparta Rotterdam 16 6 3 7 25 25 8 2 2 4 16 16 8 4 1 3 9 9 0 21
9 SC Heerenveen 15 5 5 5 23 24 7 3 1 3 11 10 8 2 4 2 12 14 -1 20
10 FC Utrecht 16 3 9 4 20 24 8 2 5 1 12 12 8 1 4 3 8 12 -4 18
11 Heracles 16 5 3 8 19 26 8 3 1 4 13 9 8 2 2 4 6 17 -7 18
12 PEC Zwolle 16 3 8 5 17 24 8 2 4 2 8 8 8 1 4 3 9 16 -7 17
13 Fortuna Sittard 16 4 4 8 23 34 8 2 2 4 13 18 8 2 2 4 10 16 -11 16
14 VVV-Venlo 16 4 3 9 26 44 8 2 2 4 10 26 8 2 1 5 16 18 -18 15
15 RKC Waalwijk 15 3 3 9 13 27 8 1 3 4 8 14 7 2 0 5 5 13 -14 12
16 ADO Den Haag 16 2 4 10 15 39 8 0 2 6 8 20 8 2 2 4 7 19 -24 10
17 Willem II 15 2 3 10 17 32 7 2 1 4 10 15 8 0 2 6 7 17 -15 9
18 FC Emmen 16 0 5 11 16 41 8 0 3 5 12 24 8 0 2 6 4 17 -25 5

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.