A important match as both contenders are fighting for the top spots. With Sparta Rotterdam in 6th place and FC Twente located at 4th, this is almost guaranteed to be an exciting duel. Read on to find out more!
- Sparta Rotterdam have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- FC Twente have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Eredivisie
This football field has artifical turf, which is not FC Twente's regular surface at their own field. When playing on artifical turf FC Twente have performed like this: Played 15 matches with the output 7 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats with the goal data 20-16 (scored/conceded).
Both squads have had time to rest since their previous effort on the pitch. Let's hope for an animated match!
Sparta Rotterdam form and stats
15 points is a decent return from 7 Eredivisie games here at Sparta-Stadion Het Kasteel for Sparta Rotterdam. The data says 5 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. Ever since the Ajax game Rotterdam has been unbeatable here at Sparta-Stadion Het Kasteel producing five straight wins.
A good away victory last time out for Sparta Rotterdam, who won 4-0 against Vitesse (placed 15th). As indicated by the result mentioned above, Rotterdam played a great game against Vitesse and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. Lauritsen, a striker, was the champion performer for the side in that fixture, receiving a rating of 9.15 (out of 10). Lauritsen scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that game, the 3-1 home victory against Fortuna Sittard.Lots of goals and action? Who knows the future, but we do know that 8 of the 10 latest league matches with this side has seen three or more goals.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (16 in 7 games), Sparta Rotterdam's attacking play is working.
FC Twente form and stats
The visitors are W2-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Eredivisie.
There were no winners in FC Twente's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Go Ahead Eagles (placed 11th). van Wolfswinkel has scored at least one goal for this side four fixtures in a row. The flair! Midfielder Zerrouki was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.83. Zerrouki hit one key pass and had 55 successful passes (of 63 total).
Before that, Twente secured a home win against RKC Waalwijk with the score 3-0.Many goals are not expected from the visiting FC Twente as they have only managed to score 4 times from 6 away games in the league.
Head 2 Head
Rotterdam-FC Twente H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Sparta Rotterdam three wins, FC Twente five wins, two draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  V. van Crooij 6 goals |  A. Verschueren 5 goals |
Sparta Rotterdam missing players
FC Twente missing players
| Sparta Rotterdam | FC Twente | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 7 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 24 | 16 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 23 |
| 15 | 7 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 6 | 8 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 77% | 86% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 77% |
| 69% | 71% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 17% | 54% |
| 54% | 57% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 8% | 14% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 46% | 57% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 33% | 31% |
| 38% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 54% |
| 23% | 14% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 33% | 15% |
| 4.4 | 4 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 7.2 | 6.5 |
| 5.5 | 5.1 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 7 | 5.1 |
| 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12.8 | 12.6 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 13.3 | 15.8 |
| 5 | 5.6 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.5 | 4.7 |
| 37% | 41% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 19% | 38% |
| 14.5 | 14.7 | 21 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16 | 12.3 | 10.2 |
| 4.6 | 3.9 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3 |
- FC Twente have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- FC Twente have the fewest conceded goals (6) away in Eredivisie
- FC Twente have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Eredivisie
- FC Twente have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Eredivisie
- FC Twente have the fewest scored goals (4) away in Eredivisie
- FC Twente have the most clean sheets (7) in Eredivisie
- FC Twente haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sparta Rotterdam have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sparta Rotterdam have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Sparta Rotterdam have scored at least twice as many goals at home as FC Twente have scored away.
- Sparta Rotterdam haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | PSV | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 42 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 23 | 30 |
| 2 | Ajax | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 39 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 27 | 28 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 17 | 27 |
| 4 | FC Twente | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 26 |
| 5 | AZ | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 26 |
| 6 | Sparta Rotterdam | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 23 |
| 7 | FC Utrecht | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 15 | -2 | 21 |
| 8 | SC Heerenveen | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 20 |
| 9 | RKC Waalwijk | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 17 |
| 10 | NEC | 13 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -2 | 14 |
| 11 | Go Ahead Eagles | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -3 | 14 |
| 12 | Excelsior | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 32 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 21 | -17 | 13 |
| 13 | Fortuna Sittard | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -8 | 12 |
| 14 | FC Groningen | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 26 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 14 | -11 | 12 |
| 15 | Vitesse | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -13 | 11 |
| 16 | FC Emmen | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 17 | -14 | 10 |
| 17 | SC Cambuur | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | -11 | 8 |
| 18 | FC Volendam | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 35 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 19 | -22 | 6 |
