PSV are pursuing the top league spots while Sparta Rotterdam are more worried about steering clear of relegation. Expected home win or surprise away points?
- All of PSV's home-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
- Sparta Rotterdam have yet to win a game away.
These are hectic days for the home side, as they played only three days ago in the Europa League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Sturm Graz.
7-4-18 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Sparta Rotterdam when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 29 matches are 25-55 (scored/conceded).
PSV form and stats
PSV have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the Eredivisie. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.
Happy days for PSV in their previous game, a Europa League match away at Sturm Graz that ended with a 4-1 victory. The talented striker Cody Gakpo bested all the other footballers in that match and managed a match rating of 8.24 out of 10. Gakpo hit seven key passes, dribled past the opponent 8 of 10 times and had 25 successful passes (of 31 total).
A Eredivisie defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Willem II.PSV are huge favourites in this match and it would be a big surprise if they fail to leave Philips Stadion with a victory. The home side has been in this situation before, with huge expectations of a win. In their match history four earlier games are comparable to this one, and PSV has won four times, drawn zero and lost zero. Sports bettors who like handicap betting will like to know that PSV has won by at least two goals four times when in this position.
Goals are plentiful at Philips Stadion in the league this season as PSV has scored 9 goals here in 3 home games. PSV have conceded 7 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Sparta Rotterdam form and stats
The Eredivisie season is young and Sparta Rotterdam have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far.
Home advantage was not enough for Rotterdam in their previous game, as they lost their Eredivisie-match, hosting SC Cambuur, 0-4. Sparta Rotterdam lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. Bryan Smeets got a match rating of 6.8 in that game, top player of the team. Smeets hit three key passes.
A 1-1 draw at PEC Zwolle's stadium before that.The visitors come into this game as huge outsiders. This role is not totally unknown to them, as they have played one away match before with similar winning odds. These games have ended with zero wins, zero draws and one defeat. zero games were lost by at least two goals margin.
Sparta Rotterdam are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 1 goal from 3 away games. The Rotterdam manager H. Fraser has some worries about the defense as 7 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: seven - two - one (PSV wins - draws - Sparta Rotterdam wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. Zahavi 3 goals |  O. Boscagli 2 goals |  C. Gakpo 2 goals |
PSV missing players
Sparta Rotterdam missing players
| PSV | Sparta Rotterdam | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 17 | 9 | 5 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 10 | 7 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 33% | 43% |
| 43% | 100% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 43% |
| 29% | 67% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 57% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 57% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 67% | 43% |
| 7.4 | 8.3 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 3.6 | 5 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5 | 5.1 |
| 1.6 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.7 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 18.1 | 18 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 8.3 | 10.7 |
| 6.6 | 6.3 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2 | 2.6 |
| 37% | 47% | 62% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 17% | 33% |
- All of PSV's home-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
- All of Sparta Rotterdam's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- PSV have scored more than double the goals of Sparta Rotterdam.
- PSV have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- PSV haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sparta Rotterdam have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Sparta Rotterdam have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Sparta Rotterdam have yet to win a game away.
- Sparta Rotterdam 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 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 29 | 19 |
| 2 | Willem II | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 15 |
| 4 | PSV | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 5 | FC Utrecht | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 14 |
| 6 | FC Twente | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| 7 | SC Cambuur | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 13 | -3 | 12 |
| 8 | SC Heerenveen | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 9 | Vitesse | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -8 | 10 |
| 10 | NEC | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | -7 | 8 |
| 11 | Heracles | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 7 |
| 12 | AZ | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 6 |
| 13 | Sparta Rotterdam | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -8 | 6 |
| 14 | Go Ahead Eagles | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 | -9 | 6 |
| 15 | RKC Waalwijk | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 5 |
| 16 | FC Groningen | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -7 | 5 |
| 17 | Fortuna Sittard | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -7 | 5 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -11 | 1 |