The home boss R. Schmidt ready whip up PSV victory against FC Groningen

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sat 28.August
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Philips Stadion (35000 seats)

PSV oppose FC Groningen for recognition and success.

The hosts PSV saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Champions League. Thankfully the previous game, versus Benfica, was also a home game here at Philips Stadion. The away team is better rested.

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PSV form and stats

The hosts won their first Eredivisie game here at Philips Stadion, lifting spirits. Home statistics for PSV last season were 13 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss from 17 games.

PSV drew their last game, also a home match. Benfica was the opponent, 0-0 the score. Cody Gakpo (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.24/10. Gakpo hit four key passes, dribled passed the opponent 5 of 7 times and had 42 successful passes (of 49 total).

Ahead of that match, PSV won a home game hosting SC Cambuur (4-1).

PSV are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found eight matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won six, drew two and lost zero.

At Philips Stadion, PSV has the goal stats of 4-1 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.

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FC Groningen form and stats

Only one away game in the Eredivisie so far for FC Groningen and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 7 victories, 2 draws and 8 losses from 17 travels.

There were no winners in Groningen's previous match, a Eredivisie home game that ended 0-0 vs FC Utrecht (placed 5th). Neraysho Kasanwirjo was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.81. The defender Kasanwirjo won 11 of 14 duels.

Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at SC Cambuur.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where FC Groningen played away with similar odds. This revealed one game. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.

It's early days yet, but FC Groningen has scored 2 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).

Head 2 Head

PSV-FC Groningen H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: PSV six wins, FC Groningen zero wins, four draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

PSVC. Madueke
C. Madueke
2 goals
PSVO. Boscagli
O. Boscagli
1 goals
PSVE. Zahavi
E. Zahavi
1 goals

PSV missing players

FC Groningen missing players

PSV FC Groningen
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
2 1 0 Played P 0 1 2
2 1 0 Won W 0 1 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
6 4 0 Scored S 0 2 2
1 1 0 Conceded C 0 1 1
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 50%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 50%
50% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 50%
50% 100% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 50%
50% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 50%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 50%
 
11 11 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 8 6.5
2.5 3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 2 3
1 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
22 25 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 11 12.5
7 8 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 7 5.5
43% 50% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 29% 18%
PSV Last season FC Groningen
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   18 35
21 13   Won W   7 14
9 3   Drew D   2 8
4 1   Lost L   9 13
74 39   Scored S   23 40
35 13   Conceded C   25 38
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 91%
94% 88%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   61% 57%
62% 65%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   50% 40%
41% 35%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   44% 29%
12% 12%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   11% 6%
62% 53%   BTTS BTTS   50% 43%
35% 47%   Clean Sheets C S   17% 34%
3% 0%   Failed to Score F T   33% 31%
 
5.9 5.5   Corners for (avg) C F   4.4 4.1
3.6 3.4   Corners against (avg) C A   4.9 4.7
1.2 1.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.5 1.5
0 0   Red cards R C   3 3
 
15.6 16.4   Shots (avg) S (   10.3 11.1
6.6 6.9   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.4 3.4
33% 33%   Goal Efficiency G E   37% 34%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Feyenoord 2 2 0 0 6 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 6 6
2 PSV 2 2 0 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 5 6
3 SC Heerenveen 2 2 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 6
4 Ajax 2 1 1 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 5 4
5 FC Utrecht 2 1 1 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 4
6 FC Groningen 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 4
7 Fortuna Sittard 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
8 RKC Waalwijk 2 1 0 1 3 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 3
9 Willem II 2 1 0 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 1 0 0 3 0 -1 3
10 Vitesse 2 1 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 -2 3
11 NEC 2 1 0 1 2 5 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 -3 3
12 FC Twente 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 1
13 Heracles 2 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 -2 1
14 Sparta Rotterdam 2 0 1 1 1 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 -4 1
15 AZ 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
16 Go Ahead Eagles 2 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 -3 0
17 PEC Zwolle 2 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 -3 0
18 SC Cambuur 2 0 0 2 2 6 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 4 -4 0
Last season 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 34 28 4 2 102 23 17 14 2 1 53 14 17 14 2 1 49 9 79 88
2 PSV 34 21 9 4 74 35 17 13 3 1 39 13 17 8 6 3 35 22 39 72
3 AZ 34 21 8 5 75 41 17 12 2 3 39 18 17 9 6 2 36 23 34 71
4 Vitesse 34 18 7 9 52 38 17 11 4 2 26 12 17 7 3 7 26 26 14 61
5 Feyenoord 34 16 11 7 64 36 17 9 6 2 35 13 17 7 5 5 29 23 28 59
6 FC Utrecht 34 13 14 7 52 41 17 6 7 4 27 25 17 7 7 3 25 16 11 53
7 FC Groningen 34 14 8 12 40 37 17 7 6 4 17 13 17 7 2 8 23 24 3 50
8 Sparta Rotterdam 34 13 8 13 49 48 17 6 4 7 30 27 17 7 4 6 19 21 1 47
9 Heracles 34 12 8 14 42 53 17 8 4 5 29 16 17 4 4 9 13 37 -11 44
10 FC Twente 34 10 11 13 48 50 17 4 6 7 23 25 17 6 5 6 25 25 -2 41
11 Fortuna Sittard 34 12 5 17 50 58 17 5 3 9 27 33 17 7 2 8 23 25 -8 41
12 SC Heerenveen 34 9 12 13 43 49 17 6 5 6 22 18 17 3 7 7 21 31 -6 39
13 PEC Zwolle 34 9 11 14 44 53 17 6 6 5 19 18 17 3 5 9 25 35 -9 38
14 Willem II 34 8 7 19 40 68 17 6 2 9 22 33 17 2 5 10 18 35 -28 31
15 RKC Waalwijk 34 7 9 18 33 55 17 5 4 8 21 25 17 2 5 10 12 30 -22 30
16 FC Emmen 34 7 9 18 40 68 17 4 4 9 26 41 17 3 5 9 14 27 -28 30
17 VVV-Venlo 34 6 5 23 43 91 17 3 4 10 20 46 17 3 1 13 23 45 -48 23
18 ADO Den Haag 34 4 10 20 29 76 17 1 6 10 17 38 17 3 4 10 12 38 -47 22

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.