National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Sparta Nijkerk or GVV Unitas that keep their silverware dream alive.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting GVV Unitas have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 4-0-7 (win-draw-loss) from eleven matches.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Sparta Nijkerk form and stats
Sparta Nijkerk have reached this KNVB Beker stage through battling and winning against ONS Sneek. Sparta Nijkerk was eliminated in the 2nd preliminary round last season in the KNVB Beker.In their previous game, the manager Speelziek led his Nijkerk to a defeat away at DEM. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Sportpark De Ebbenhorst.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Urk (3-4).Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as ODIN '59 are coming to town in four days.
Sparta Nijkerk have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and one practice match played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Sparta Nijkerk scored {2 goals} and let in {3 goals} during these one game.
GVV Unitas form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Blauw Wit '34 in order to reach 2nd preliminary round of KNVB Beker. GVV Unitas was sent out of KNVB Beker in the 2nd preliminary round last season.Unitas play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-3 to TOGB.
A loss against TEC was the result prior to that, in a Derde Divisie: Zondag home game.GVV Unitas are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. From a total of 5 matches.
After this away game GVV Unitas return home for a Derde Divisie: Zondag game against Kloetinge. That game is only four sleeps after this.
It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. Unitas have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeats from two fixtures.
Head 2 Head
Sparta Nijkerk missing players
GVV Unitas missing players
| Sparta Nijkerk | GVV Unitas | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 9 | Won | W | 5 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 7 | 12 | ||
| 39 | 22 | Scored | S | 14 | 31 | ||
| 28 | 12 | Conceded | C | 25 | 46 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 80% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 68% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 20% | ||
| 52% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 60% | ||
| 40% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 28% | ||
| 0.7 | 0.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.2 | 2.4 | ||
| 0.9 | 0.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.3 | 2.7 | ||
| 0.4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 1.5 | 0.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4.8 | 6.2 | ||
| 0.8 | 0.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3 | ||
| 200% | 850% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 41% | ||
| 2.5 | 1.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 8.5 | ||
| 1.1 | 0.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 3.9 | ||
