All the points stay with the home side, the away team claims the win or a score draw? Anything could happen when the mid-table teams RKC Waalwijk and SC Heerenveen battle at Mandemakers Stadion.
- RKC Waalwijk have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- SC Heerenveen have the most clean sheets (4) away in Eredivisie
Waalwijk's stadium, Mandemakers Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. SC Heerenveen have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for SC Heerenveen when playing on artifical turf; 5 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses from ten matches. They have scored {11 goals} in these games and conceded 9.
RKC Waalwijk form and stats
The story so far in the Eredivisie for RKC Waalwijk at their home stadium (Mandemakers Stadion) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
No payout for RKC Waalwijk in their previous match, an away game at NEC that ended in defeat 1-6. RKC Waalwijk were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one. Pereira had a busy but productive day in the NEC match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented. Buijs, defender, was given a rating of 7.11/10 in that game, top of the team. Buijs scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 0 of 3 duels.
Prior to that, an away loss at NEC.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Waalwijk have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 10 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 2 and lost 3.
Lots of goals? Who knows the future, but we do know that 9 of the 11 most recent league games with this team has had at least three goals.
RKC Waalwijk are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Mandemakers Stadion in their league games, having scored an impressive 18 goals in 7 matches. RKC Waalwijk have conceded 13 from these games.
SC Heerenveen form and stats
The visitors are W3-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Eredivisie. Heerenveen love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.
The followers enjoyed SC Heerenveen's previous fixture versus SC Cambuur (placed 17th), a 2-1 win played at home. Tahiri got a match rating of 8.14 in that game, top player of the team. Tahiri scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times and had 61 successful passes (of 71 total).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Excelsior at their stadium, the result 1-0.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with SC Heerenveen playing away and similar expectations, we found 11 relevant matches. Results were 6 Heerenveen wins, 4 draws and 1 defeat.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting FC Volendam in just four days.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far SC Heerenveen have scored 9 goals in 7 league games away.
Head 2 Head
SC Heerenveen have won at least one point in the last 8 matches (5-3-0) facing Waalwijk.The games between these teams have sometimes been brutal, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  S. van Hooijdonk 6 goals |   I. Bel Hassani 5 goals |  M. Kramer 4 goals |
RKC Waalwijk missing players
SC Heerenveen missing players
| RKC Waalwijk | SC Heerenveen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 14 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 25 | 18 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 16 |
| 28 | 13 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 71% | 71% |
| 79% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 57% | 57% |
| 71% | 86% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 43% | 50% |
| 64% | 86% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 43% | 21% |
| 36% | 43% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 7% |
| 71% | 86% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 29% | 43% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 57% | 43% |
| 29% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 43% | 43% |
| 6 | 7.4 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.3 | 4.1 |
| 6.4 | 5 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 6.6 | 6.1 |
| 1.9 | 1.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.6 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11.9 | 13.4 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 17 | 10.3 | 11.9 |
| 4.6 | 5.7 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.1 | 3.9 |
| 39% | 45% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 41% | 30% |
| 16.1 | 12.3 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 13.7 | 12.5 |
| 5.8 | 5 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
- RKC Waalwijk have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- RKC Waalwijk have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- RKC Waalwijk have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- RKC Waalwijk haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- SC Heerenveen have the most clean sheets (4) away in Eredivisie
- SC Heerenveen have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| 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 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 35 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 22 | 33 |
| 2 | Ajax | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 44 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 27 | 30 |
| 3 | PSV | 14 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 42 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 22 | 30 |
| 4 | AZ | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 29 |
| 5 | FC Twente | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 27 |
| 6 | Sparta Rotterdam | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 24 |
| 7 | FC Utrecht | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 24 |
| 8 | SC Heerenveen | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 23 |
| 9 | NEC | 14 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 17 |
| 10 | RKC Waalwijk | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 25 | 28 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 15 | -3 | 17 |
| 11 | Go Ahead Eagles | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -3 | 15 |
| 12 | Fortuna Sittard | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -7 | 15 |
| 13 | Vitesse | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | -13 | 13 |
| 14 | Excelsior | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 16 | 37 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 26 | -21 | 13 |
| 15 | FC Groningen | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 29 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 14 | -12 | 12 |
| 16 | FC Emmen | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 17 | -14 | 11 |
| 17 | SC Cambuur | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -13 | 8 |
| 18 | FC Volendam | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 39 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 19 | -26 | 6 |
