SC Heerenveen vs Go Ahead Eagles: Soccer match preview

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Competition: Netherlands Eredivisie
Competition: Sun 28.May
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Abe Lenstra Stadion (26100 seats)

Data, patterns, results, player info, head-2-head, team selections and a lot else: Get all you want to know on SC Heerenveen - Go Ahead Eagles!

Insights:
  • SC Heerenveen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Go Ahead Eagles have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

SC Heerenveen are staying put; they can neither be promoted or relegated this season and are fighting only for positions. For Eagles most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

Both squads have had enough days rest since their last match. Let's wish for an in-your-face match!

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SC Heerenveen form and stats

The story so far in the Eredivisie for SC Heerenveen at their home stadium (Abe Lenstra Stadion) is 5 wins, 3 draws and 8 defeats.

SC Heerenveen shared the glory with PSV in their last match, an away game that ended all square 3-3. The point won was a little bit fortunate as the game had an xG (expected goals) of 3.61 - 1.07. Opportunity lost for SC Heerenveen in the PSV match as a lead 3-1 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. The attacker Colassin was declared "man of the match" for SC Heerenveen with the rating of 8.5/10. Colassin scored two goals.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Excelsior.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Heerenveen handle that role? We have found 7 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Take note that 10 of the most recent 13 league matches from this football club have had goals from both teams.

SC Heerenveen are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 19 goals in 16 games. SC Heerenveen have conceded 26 from these games.

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Go Ahead Eagles form and stats

There's been little loot from Go Ahead Eagles's travels as they have only collected 13 points from 16 away games in the Eredivisie. Go Ahead Eagles only have 3 wins to counter their 9 defeats and 4 draws. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Hake, the Go Ahead Eagles manager, as the last three away games were defeats.

Eagles had fun at their own home (Abe Lenstra Stadion) last time out, beating FC Volendam 3-0. Serra, Edvardsen and Lidberg scored. Rommens got a match rating of 8.03 in that game, top player of the team. Rommens hit three key passes and had 53 successful passes (of 65 total).

Preceding that game, the 0-3 loss visiting Feyenoord's place.

We have checked recent matches where Go Ahead Eagles have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 10 games were 3 victories, 1 draw and 6 defeats.

The visiting Eagles have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 18 goals from 16 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As for defending, Go Ahead Eagles rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 31 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

It's not the first time these teams meet this campaign, as the history books show this recent game: Go Ahead Eagles - Heerenveen 1-1. Head-to-head totals (for the preceeding ten meetings): SC Heerenveen won five games, four matches ended with a tie and Go Ahead Eagles got one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.

Top Goalscorers

SC HeerenveenS. van Hooijdonk
S. van Hooijdonk
16 goals
Go Ahead EaglesW. Willumsson
W. Willumsson
8 goals
Go Ahead EaglesI. Lidberg
I. Lidberg
7 goals

SC Heerenveen missing players

Go Ahead Eagles missing players

Total First Half Second Half
SC Heerenveen Go Ahead Eagles
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
33 16 4 Played P 4 16 33
11 5 0 Won W 1 3 10
10 3 1 Drew D 1 4 10
12 8 3 Lost L 2 9 13
42 19 3 Scored S 6 18 46
50 26 9 Conceded C 9 31 54
82% 81% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
73% 75% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 94% 85%
58% 69% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 56% 52%
36% 31% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 31% 36%
21% 19% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 19% 21%
55% 69% 75% BTTS BTTS 75% 62% 58%
27% 19% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 6% 24%
36% 31% 25% Failed to Score F T 25% 31% 24%
 
4.6 5.2 4 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.6 4.9
5.5 4.9 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.1 5.5
1.5 1.4 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 1.9 1.5
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
13.1 14.2 15.8 Shots (avg) S ( 11.8 11.1 12.4
4.5 4.9 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 3.1 4
28% 24% 15% Goal Efficiency G E 46% 36% 35%
 
13 12.2 11 Shots against (avg) S A 13.8 15.2 14
4.4 4.1 3.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.8 5.3 5
Key stats in Eredivisie this season:
  • Go Ahead Eagles have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Go Ahead Eagles haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • SC Heerenveen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  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 33 25 7 1 81 29 16 12 4 0 37 9 17 13 3 1 44 20 52 82
2 PSV 33 22 6 5 87 39 17 14 2 1 54 14 16 8 4 4 33 25 48 72
3 Ajax 33 20 9 4 85 35 17 10 5 2 47 14 16 10 4 2 38 21 50 69
4 AZ 33 20 7 6 67 33 16 9 5 2 35 18 17 11 2 4 32 15 34 67
5 FC Twente 33 17 10 6 63 26 16 12 4 0 43 10 17 5 6 6 20 16 37 61
6 Sparta Rotterdam 33 16 8 9 55 37 17 10 2 5 32 18 16 6 6 4 23 19 18 56
7 FC Utrecht 33 14 9 10 52 48 16 7 5 4 17 13 17 7 4 6 35 35 4 51
8 SC Heerenveen 33 11 10 12 42 50 16 5 3 8 19 26 17 6 7 4 23 24 -8 43
9 RKC Waalwijk 33 11 8 14 50 60 17 9 3 5 34 26 16 2 5 9 16 34 -10 41
10 Go Ahead Eagles 33 10 10 13 46 54 17 7 6 4 28 23 16 3 4 9 18 31 -8 40
11 NEC 33 8 14 11 41 44 17 3 9 5 28 28 16 5 5 6 13 16 -3 38
12 Vitesse 33 9 10 14 44 50 17 5 6 6 24 25 16 4 4 8 20 25 -6 37
13 Fortuna Sittard 33 10 5 18 38 61 16 5 3 8 20 27 17 5 2 10 18 34 -23 35
14 FC Volendam 33 9 6 18 39 69 16 8 1 7 26 30 17 1 5 11 13 39 -30 33
15 Excelsior 33 9 5 19 30 68 17 8 2 7 22 26 16 1 3 12 8 42 -38 32
16 FC Emmen 33 6 10 17 31 62 17 3 9 5 16 23 16 3 1 12 15 39 -31 28
17 FC Groningen 33 4 6 23 31 70 16 3 3 10 20 29 17 1 3 13 11 41 -39 18
18 SC Cambuur 33 4 4 25 22 69 16 2 0 14 10 33 17 2 4 11 12 36 -47 16

Table
  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 33 25 7 1 81 29 16 12 4 0 37 9 17 13 3 1 44 20 52 82
2 PSV 33 22 6 5 87 39 17 14 2 1 54 14 16 8 4 4 33 25 48 72
3 Ajax 33 20 9 4 85 35 17 10 5 2 47 14 16 10 4 2 38 21 50 69
4 AZ 33 20 7 6 67 33 16 9 5 2 35 18 17 11 2 4 32 15 34 67
5 FC Twente 33 17 10 6 63 26 16 12 4 0 43 10 17 5 6 6 20 16 37 61
6 Sparta Rotterdam 33 16 8 9 55 37 17 10 2 5 32 18 16 6 6 4 23 19 18 56
7 FC Utrecht 33 14 9 10 52 48 16 7 5 4 17 13 17 7 4 6 35 35 4 51
8 SC Heerenveen 33 11 10 12 42 50 16 5 3 8 19 26 17 6 7 4 23 24 -8 43
9 RKC Waalwijk 33 11 8 14 50 60 17 9 3 5 34 26 16 2 5 9 16 34 -10 41
10 Go Ahead Eagles 33 10 10 13 46 54 17 7 6 4 28 23 16 3 4 9 18 31 -8 40
11 NEC 33 8 14 11 41 44 17 3 9 5 28 28 16 5 5 6 13 16 -3 38
12 Vitesse 33 9 10 14 44 50 17 5 6 6 24 25 16 4 4 8 20 25 -6 37
13 Fortuna Sittard 33 10 5 18 38 61 16 5 3 8 20 27 17 5 2 10 18 34 -23 35
14 FC Volendam 33 9 6 18 39 69 16 8 1 7 26 30 17 1 5 11 13 39 -30 33
15 Excelsior 33 9 5 19 30 68 17 8 2 7 22 26 16 1 3 12 8 42 -38 32
16 FC Emmen 33 6 10 17 31 62 17 3 9 5 16 23 16 3 1 12 15 39 -31 28
17 FC Groningen 33 4 6 23 31 70 16 3 3 10 20 29 17 1 3 13 11 41 -39 18
18 SC Cambuur 33 4 4 25 22 69 16 2 0 14 10 33 17 2 4 11 12 36 -47 16

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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.