Sparta Rotterdam will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 8 points behind FC Groningen.
- Sparta Rotterdam have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- FC Groningen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
FC Groningen could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a KNVB Beker game only four sleeps ago. That game, against FC Emmen, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for FC Groningen.
Sparta Rotterdam form and stats
2 victories, 2 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Sparta Rotterdam have to build on here at Sparta-Stadion Het Kasteel in the Eredivisie. Two home wins in a row for Sparta Rotterdam bring valid hopes of a third.
Rotterdam enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Willem II's place. The match ended 3-1 with Deroy Duarte (2) and Lennart Thy scoring. Ahead of that match, Sparta Rotterdam won a home game hosting FC Emmen (2-1).
This is expected to be a close game, with Sparta Rotterdam perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Rotterdam as a small favourite), we find three games. Sparta Rotterdam has won one of these, drawn zero and lost two.
Sparta Rotterdam are traveling soon after this match as the Eredivisie match at FC Twente awaits in three days.
The Rotterdam manager H. Fraser has got the team scoring with 14 from 6 home games in the league. Rotterdam have conceded 11 from these games.
FC Groningen form and stats
3-0-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for FC Groningen in their Eredivisie matches away.
Groningen play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting FC Emmen (placed 18th). A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs RKC Waalwijk.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Groningen in our archives, and the results are: three wins for FC Groningen, zero draws and four defeats.
After this away game FC Groningen return home for a Eredivisie game against Heracles. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Groningen find the net regularly in their away games. 7 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. 7 goals have been conceded by Groningen in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Rotterdam won one game, four matches ended with a draw and FC Groningen has five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  L. Thy 7 goals |  A. Harroui 5 goals |   A. El Messaoudi 5 goals |
Sparta Rotterdam missing players
FC Groningen missing players
| Sparta Rotterdam | FC Groningen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 20 | 14 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 20 | 11 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 83% | 83% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 67% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 60% | 42% |
| 42% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 25% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 60% | 50% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 42% |
| 33% | 17% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 17% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.7 | 1.3 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | 14.2 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 17 | 12.4 | 12.7 |
| 4.8 | 5.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 4.8 | 3.7 |
| 35% | 40% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 29% | 34% |
- FC Groningen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- FC Groningen haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Sparta Rotterdam have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 47 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 40 | 30 |
| 2 | PSV | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 27 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 15 | 26 |
| 4 | Vitesse | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 26 |
| 5 | FC Groningen | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 23 |
| 6 | FC Twente | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 21 |
| 7 | AZ | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 25 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 20 |
| 8 | SC Heerenveen | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 20 |
| 9 | Sparta Rotterdam | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 15 |
| 10 | FC Utrecht | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 12 |
| 11 | PEC Zwolle | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 15 | -8 | 12 |
| 12 | RKC Waalwijk | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -9 | 12 |
| 13 | Heracles | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 16 | -11 | 9 |
| 14 | Fortuna Sittard | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 30 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -13 | 9 |
| 15 | VVV-Venlo | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 36 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 13 | -18 | 9 |
| 16 | Willem II | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | -12 | 8 |
| 17 | ADO Den Haag | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 19 | -18 | 7 |
| 18 | FC Emmen | 12 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | -17 | 4 |