National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Vitesse or Sparta Rotterdam that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Vitesse and Sparta Rotterdam.
7-5-19 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Sparta Rotterdam when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 31 matches are 27-57 (scored/conceded).
Vitesse form and stats
Last season, Vitesse's KNVB Beker journey ended in the final.Vitesse have played 8 Eredivisie games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-2-3 (wins-draws-losses).
Vitesse's last game was hosting Heracles Almelo and winning 2-1. The forward Loïs Openda won the honour of being "man of the match" for Vitesse with a rating of 8.2/10. Openda scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Before that game, the 3-1 home victory against Mura.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Vitesse handle that role? We have found seven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, zero draws and four defeats.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Vitesse as they are travelling to their away game against Sparta Rotterdam in the Eredivisie. That match is three days after this one.
Vitesse are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 8 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 13 goals have been conceded.
Sparta Rotterdam form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated GVVV in order to reach 2nd round of KNVB Beker. Last season their KNVB Beker adventure ended in the 1st round.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sparta Rotterdam so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-5 (win-draw-lose).
Sparta Rotterdam has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to SC Heerenveen for a Eredivisie game that ended a draw (0-0). Tim Coremans was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.0. The agile goalkeeper Coremans stopped the opponent with four saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.
It was a Eredivisie defeat before that one as the away game against AZ wasn't a success with a 1-3 loss.Rotterdam are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, one draw and two defeats. From a total of four matches.
After this away game Rotterdam return home for a Eredivisie game against Vitesse. That game is only three sleeps after this.
The attacking power of Sparta Rotterdam when travelling is not overwhelming with 6 goals scored from 8 league matches away. Rotterdam struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 13 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's seven Vitesse victories, one draw and two Sparta Rotterdam wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Openda 9 goals |  N. Frederiksen 5 goals |   B. Vriends 3 goals |
Vitesse missing players
Sparta Rotterdam missing players
| Vitesse | Sparta Rotterdam | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 6 | Won | W | 5 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Lost | L | 7 | 12 | ||
| 41 | 16 | Scored | S | 17 | 27 | ||
| 37 | 17 | Conceded | C | 20 | 36 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 87% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 76% | ||
| 68% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 8% | ||
| 64% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 40% | ||
| 5.8 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 3.8 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.3 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.5 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 15.6 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.6 | 10.2 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.6 | ||
| 28% | 24% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 29% | ||
| 11.1 | 10.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.8 | 11.8 | ||
| 4 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 4.5 | ||
| 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 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 23 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 17 | 37 |
| 2 | Ajax | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 49 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 45 | 36 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 39 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 24 | 36 |
| 4 | Vitesse | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 10 | -1 | 29 |
| 5 | FC Twente | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 28 |
| 6 | FC Utrecht | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 30 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 27 |
| 7 | SC Cambuur | 16 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 30 | 36 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 18 | -6 | 27 |
| 8 | AZ | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 30 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 26 |
| 9 | SC Heerenveen | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -3 | 22 |
| 10 | Go Ahead Eagles | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | -6 | 21 |
| 11 | FC Groningen | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 16 | -4 | 19 |
| 12 | NEC | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 16 | -5 | 19 |
| 13 | Willem II | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 31 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 17 | -14 | 18 |
| 14 | RKC Waalwijk | 16 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -8 | 15 |
| 15 | Heracles Almelo | 16 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 14 | -7 | 14 |
| 16 | Fortuna Sittard | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 39 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 20 | -22 | 12 |
| 17 | Sparta Rotterdam | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 24 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -12 | 11 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 16 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 20 | -20 | 6 |