There has been boom and bust for these two sides this season, placed in positions near the midsection of the Eredivisie table. Here's the SC Heerenveen - NEC latest:
- SC Heerenveen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- NEC have the most dropped points from leading position (23) in Eredivisie
The visiting NEC played their last game only three days ago, a KNVB Beker match.
SC Heerenveen form and stats
With 3 Eredivisie wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats from their home games, SC Heerenveen are certainly not brimming with confidence. It's trouble wherever SC Heerenveen are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.
SC Heerenveen are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 367 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Veerman).
Heerenveen lost their last game at Fortuna Sittard (placed 16th) after a 0-2 scoreline. de Jong, an attacker, was the top performer for the team in that fixture, and was presented with a rating of 7.43 (out of 10). Jong hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that game, the home loss against PEC Zwolle with the scoreline 0-1.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 SC Heerenveen have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won one, drawn one and lost two.
Heerenveen have conceded 18 from these games.
NEC form and stats
Playing away, NEC have won 5 games, drawn 3 and suffered 3 defeats in the Eredivisie this season.
Schöne got a match rating of 8.41 in that game, top player of the team. Schöne hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 5 of 6 times and had 53 successful passes (of 65 total).
Ahead of that match was the Eredivisie away draw versus PEC Zwolle that ended 1-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by NEC in our archives, and the results are: four wins for NEC, zero draws and two defeats.
The visiting NEC have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 16 goals from 11 games. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as NEC have conceded 17 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
The last head-to-head game ended NEC - SC Heerenveen 1-1, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Heerenveen one win, four draws and NEC five victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Bruijn 5 goals |  A. Akman 5 goals |  E. Tavsan 4 goals |
SC Heerenveen missing players
NEC missing players
| SC Heerenveen | NEC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 11 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 11 | 21 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | 6 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 20 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 16 | 26 |
| 30 | 18 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 17 | 31 |
| 95% | 91% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 90% |
| 71% | 73% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 82% | 76% |
| 43% | 55% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 45% | 48% |
| 19% | 27% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 27% | 24% |
| 10% | 18% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 18% | 19% |
| 52% | 55% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 64% | 52% |
| 24% | 18% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 27% | 33% |
| 29% | 36% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 9% | 24% |
| 4.5 | 4 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 2.5 | 3.8 |
| 6.3 | 6.5 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 6.4 | 6.5 |
| 1.3 | 1.5 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 10.9 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 9.2 | 10.9 |
| 3.5 | 3.3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.5 | 4.3 |
| 27% | 31% | 75% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 41% | 29% |
| 15.1 | 16 | 16 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 16.6 | 16.1 |
| 5 | 5.4 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.6 | 4.8 |
- NEC have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- NEC have the most dropped points from leading position (23) in Eredivisie
- NEC have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- NEC 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 | Ajax | 21 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 64 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 59 | 51 |
| 2 | PSV | 21 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 49 | 28 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 29 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 21 | 46 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 21 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 50 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 9 | 31 | 45 |
| 4 | FC Twente | 21 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 34 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 41 |
| 5 | AZ | 21 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 39 | 25 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 39 |
| 6 | Vitesse | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 27 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 15 | -4 | 36 |
| 7 | FC Utrecht | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 39 | 28 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 35 |
| 8 | SC Cambuur | 21 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 35 | 43 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 22 | -8 | 30 |
| 9 | NEC | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 26 | 31 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 17 | -5 | 27 |
| 10 | FC Groningen | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 25 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -5 | 25 |
| 11 | SC Heerenveen | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -10 | 25 |
| 12 | RKC Waalwijk | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 34 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 17 | -10 | 22 |
| 13 | Go Ahead Eagles | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 34 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 19 | -13 | 22 |
| 14 | Willem II | 21 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 21 | 40 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 23 | -19 | 21 |
| 15 | Heracles | 21 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 22 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 17 | -8 | 20 |
| 16 | Fortuna Sittard | 21 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 50 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 23 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 27 | -27 | 16 |
| 17 | Sparta Rotterdam | 21 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 35 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 18 | -19 | 14 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 21 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 33 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 21 | -20 | 13 |
