Only a win will satisfy the home supporters in this Philips Stadion clash with PEC Zwolle, having a healthy lead on the opposition in the Eredivisie table.
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.
PEC Zwolle play their home games on artificial turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for PEC Zwolle when playing on grass are 8 wins, 3 draws and 22 defeats from 33 matches. They have scored 26 goals and conceded 71 times in these games.
PSV form and stats
PSV are steadily winning Eredivisie games and points here at Philips Stadion. 7 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat is the summary from 9 games. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for PSV, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.
PSV's last game was hosting PEC Zwolle (placed 15th) and winning 4-1. A strong away win before that one, visiting GVVV and winning 2-1.
The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for PSV home games with this odds we find six games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 3 matches were won by at least two goals.
PSV are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (27 goals in 9 games). 10 goals have been conceded.
PEC Zwolle form and stats
PEC Zwolle have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Eredivisie, after 2-0-8 (10 played).
PEC Zwolle play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-4 to PSV (placed 3rd). Preceding that game, the 0-3 loss visiting Fortuna Sittard's place.
PEC Zwolle goalkeeper Michael Zetterer had a great day against PSV, but despite making 6 saves the loss could not be avoided.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where PEC Zwolle played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 4 times.
The attacking power of PEC Zwolle when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 10 league matches away. The PEC Zwolle manager J. Stegeman has some worries about the defense as 22 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: PSV - PEC Zwolle 4-1. PSV-PEC Zwolle H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: PSV 10 wins, PEC Zwolle 0 wins, 0 draws. 9 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  D. Malen 11 goals |   R. Ghoochannejhad 6 goals |  S. Bergwijn 5 goals |
PSV missing players
PEC Zwolle missing players
| PSV | PEC Zwolle | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 18 |
| 10 | 7 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 8 | 12 |
| 42 | 27 | 12 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 25 |
| 23 | 10 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 22 | 42 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 80% | 89% |
| 78% | 89% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 70% | 83% |
| 61% | 78% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 40% | 61% |
| 22% | 44% | 67% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 10% | 17% |
| 67% | 67% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 61% |
| 22% | 22% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 11% | 11% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 39% |
| 6.1 | 6.8 | 10 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 4.9 | 4.7 |
| 3.8 | 3.6 | 2 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 10.5 | 8.1 | 6.9 |
| 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 298 | 157 | 66 | Total Shots | T S | 15 | 127 | 231 |
| 124 | 70 | 33 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 49 | 90 |
| 34% | 39% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 16% | 28% |
- All of PSV's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- PEC Zwolle has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- PEC Zwolle have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- PEC Zwolle have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- PEC Zwolle haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- PSV has the fewest matches under the total-line (5)
- PSV has the most points from losing position (12)
- PSV have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- PSV have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- PSV have scored at least twice as many goals at home as PEC Zwolle have scored away.
- PSV 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 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 52 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 37 | 41 |
| 2 | AZ Alkmaar | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 39 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 28 | 41 |
| 3 | PSV | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 42 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 19 | 34 |
| 4 | Willem II | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 33 |
| 5 | FC Utrecht | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 32 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 29 |
| 6 | SC Heerenveen | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 29 | 22 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 28 |
| 7 | Feyenoord | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 30 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 28 |
| 8 | Vitesse | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 27 |
| 9 | Heracles | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 31 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 26 |
| 10 | Sparta Rotterdam | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 27 | 30 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 20 | -3 | 23 |
| 11 | FC Groningen | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 22 |
| 12 | FC Twente | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 26 | 37 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -11 | 19 |
| 13 | Fortuna Sittard | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 42 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 30 | -19 | 19 |
| 14 | FC Emmen | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 20 | 32 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 22 | -12 | 18 |
| 15 | PEC Zwolle | 18 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 25 | 42 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 22 | -17 | 16 |
| 16 | VVV-Venlo | 17 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 17 | 41 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 22 | -24 | 15 |
| 17 | ADO Den Haag | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 31 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 17 | -13 | 13 |
| 18 | RKC Waalwijk | 18 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 22 | 43 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 27 | -21 | 11 |