PSV vs Sparta Rotterdam betting preview: Visitors should struggle at Philips Stadion

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sun 29.November
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Philips Stadion (35000 seats)

PSV perform at a high level so far being 4th in the table. Sparta Rotterdam can look both up and down from their 10th position.

Insights:
  • PSV has the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Eredivisie
  • Sparta Rotterdam has the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Eredivisie

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.

This pitch has grass, which is not Sparta Rotterdam's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Sparta Rotterdam have performed like this: Played 23 matches resulting in 3 wins, 5 draws and 15 defeats with the goal stats 22-47 (scored/conceded).

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PSV form and stats

4 victories, 0 draws and 0 defeats. That’s what PSV, who have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Eredivisie, have to build on here at Philips Stadion in the Eredivisie.

A nice win for PSV last time playing, versus Sparta Rotterdam. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Donyell Malen scoring for the victors. Ahead of that match, PSV won a home game hosting PAOK (3-2).

Manager R. Schmidt felt very clever after Donyell Malen scored the winning goal against Sparta Rotterdam, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 64th minute.

PSV are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (11 goals in 4 games). PSV have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.

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Sparta Rotterdam form and stats

1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Sparta Rotterdam playing as the away team in the Eredivisie this season.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Rotterdam goalkeeper Maduka Okoye is eager to challenge this, with his 213 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Sparta Rotterdam are travelling again after losing away to PSV in their previous match (0-1). A home win before that, celebrating 6-0 vs ADO Den Haag.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Rotterdam as they have only managed to score 3 times from 4 away games in the league. Rotterdam have conceded 7 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Last ten meetings between the teams: PSV won seven, Sparta Rotterdam won one and two draws. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Sparta RotterdamL. Thy
L. Thy
6 goals
PSVD. Malen
D. Malen
5 goals
PSVC. Madueke
C. Madueke
4 goals

PSV missing players

Sparta Rotterdam missing players

PSV Sparta Rotterdam
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 5 0 Played P 2 5 10
7 5 0 Won W 0 1 2
2 0 0 Drew D 1 1 3
1 0 0 Lost L 1 3 5
21 12 0 Scored S 1 3 15
6 1 0 Conceded C 3 8 18
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
90% 80% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 80%
60% 60% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 40%
20% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 40%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 30%
50% 20% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 20% 40%
50% 80% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 20%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 60% 40%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.1 0.6 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.2 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
15 16.2 0 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 8.4 12
6 6.6 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.8 4.6
35% 36% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 21% 33%
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • PSV has the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Eredivisie
  • PSV has the most clean sheets (4) at home in Eredivisie
  • PSV have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • PSV have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sparta Rotterdam have scored away.
  • PSV have scored in all their matches so far.
  • PSV have won all their matches at home so far.
  • PSV haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sparta Rotterdam has the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Eredivisie
  • Sparta Rotterdam have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored 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 10 9 0 1 42 5 5 5 0 0 20 4 5 4 0 1 22 1 37 27
2 Vitesse 10 8 1 1 20 6 5 5 0 0 12 2 5 3 1 1 8 4 14 25
3 Feyenoord 10 6 4 0 23 11 5 2 3 0 9 5 5 4 1 0 14 6 12 22
4 PSV 9 6 2 1 20 6 4 4 0 0 11 1 5 2 2 1 9 5 14 20
5 FC Twente 10 5 3 2 21 11 6 3 2 1 12 6 4 2 1 1 9 5 10 18
6 SC Heerenveen 10 5 3 2 18 13 4 3 0 1 7 3 6 2 3 1 11 10 5 18
7 AZ 9 4 5 0 21 13 4 2 2 0 7 3 5 2 3 0 14 10 8 17
8 FC Groningen 10 5 2 3 11 11 6 3 2 1 6 5 4 2 0 2 5 6 0 17
9 FC Utrecht 9 2 5 2 10 13 4 2 1 1 6 6 5 0 4 1 4 7 -3 11
10 Sparta Rotterdam 9 2 3 4 15 17 5 1 2 2 12 10 4 1 1 2 3 7 -2 9
11 PEC Zwolle 10 1 6 3 12 17 5 1 2 2 5 6 5 0 4 1 7 11 -5 9
12 RKC Waalwijk 10 2 3 5 8 16 5 0 3 2 4 7 5 2 0 3 4 9 -8 9
13 VVV-Venlo 10 2 3 5 16 30 5 1 2 2 7 20 5 1 1 3 9 10 -14 9
14 Willem II 10 2 2 6 9 18 5 2 0 3 8 11 5 0 2 3 1 7 -9 8
15 Heracles 10 2 2 6 11 21 5 2 1 2 8 5 5 0 1 4 3 16 -10 8
16 ADO Den Haag 10 1 2 7 9 27 5 0 2 3 5 10 5 1 0 4 4 17 -18 5
17 Fortuna Sittard 10 0 3 7 12 27 5 0 2 3 8 14 5 0 1 4 4 13 -15 3
18 FC Emmen 10 0 3 7 11 27 5 0 2 3 8 16 5 0 1 4 3 11 -16 3

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.