National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Willem II or Sparta Rotterdam that keep their silverware dream alive.
The visiting Sparta Rotterdam played their last game only three days ago, a Eredivisie match. That game was also an away game, at FC Emmen. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
This pitch has grass, which is not Sparta Rotterdam's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Sparta Rotterdam have performed like this: Played 27 matches resulting in 4 wins, 7 draws and 16 defeats with the goal stats 27-55 (scored/conceded).
Willem II form and stats
Willem II have reached this KNVB Beker stage through battling and winning against HV & CV Quick. Willem II participated in KNVB Beker the last season, where they reached the final.The home supporters can't complain about results here at Willem II Stadion as Willem II have scored 12 goals to get 16 points from 8 games. The overall stats in the Eredivisie are 5-1-2 (wins-draws-losses). It’s been three wins in a row for Willem II here at Willem II Stadion, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Willem II are returning here after visiting SC Heerenveen in a Eredivisie game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Before that match, a Eredivisie win away at Ajax.
Willem II goalkeeper Timon Wellenreuther did an outstanding job against SC Heerenveen with 8 saves, so vital to securing the victory.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Willem II handle that role? We have found seven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The win/draw/lost stats in these games are W3-D3-L1.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Willem II, as the Eredivisie home game vs Fortuna Sittard is only three days away.
A decent goal production from Willem II in their home games so far, with 12 goals from 8 league matches. Willem II have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Sparta Rotterdam form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated FC Volendam in order to reach 2nd Round of KNVB Beker. They also participated in KNVB Beker last season. This ended in the 1st round.There's been little loot from Sparta Rotterdam's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 9 away games in the Eredivisie. Sparta Rotterdam only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 3 draws. It's all red in the travel logs of Sparta Rotterdam, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.
Two away games in a row for Sparta Rotterdam, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 versus FC Emmen in the Eredivisie. Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Heracles.
Sparta Rotterdam goalkeeper Ariel Harush had a great day against FC Emmen, but despite making 6 saves the loss could not be avoided.
Sparta Rotterdam are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. From a total of three matches.
After this away game Sparta Rotterdam return home for a Eredivisie game against AZ Alkmaar. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Sparta Rotterdam as they have only managed to score 8 times from 9 away games in the league. Sparta Rotterdam have conceded 20 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Willem II 4 wins, 2 draws and Sparta Rotterdam 4 victories. As for goals, 8 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 2 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  V. Pavlidis 9 goals |   M. Rayhi 5 goals |
Willem II missing players
Sparta Rotterdam missing players
| Willem II | Sparta Rotterdam | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 11 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 38 | 16 | Scored | S | 17 | 41 | ||
| 42 | 20 | Conceded | C | 23 | 35 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 88% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 16% | ||
| 48% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 20% | ||
| 4 | 3.8 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 5.2 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.2 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 6.3 | 6 | ||
| 1.6 | 0.8 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.6 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 253 | 151 | Total Shots | T S | 168 | 336 | ||
| 97 | 52 | Shots on Target | S O | 53 | 118 | ||
| 35% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 35% | ||
| 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 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 52 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 37 | 41 |
| 2 | AZ Alkmaar | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 39 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 31 | 41 |
| 3 | Willem II | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 32 |
| 4 | PSV | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 38 | 22 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 31 |
| 5 | FC Utrecht | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 32 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 29 |
| 6 | Feyenoord | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 30 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 28 |
| 7 | SC Heerenveen | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 27 |
| 8 | Vitesse | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 27 |
| 9 | Heracles | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 25 |
| 10 | FC Groningen | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 22 |
| 11 | Sparta Rotterdam | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 24 | 30 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 20 | -6 | 20 |
| 12 | FC Twente | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 26 | 34 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -8 | 19 |
| 13 | FC Emmen | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 20 | 32 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 22 | -12 | 18 |
| 14 | Fortuna Sittard | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 42 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 30 | -19 | 18 |
| 15 | PEC Zwolle | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 24 | 38 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 18 | -14 | 16 |
| 16 | VVV-Venlo | 17 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 17 | 41 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 22 | -24 | 15 |
| 17 | ADO Den Haag | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 31 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 17 | -13 | 13 |
| 18 | RKC Waalwijk | 17 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 19 | 43 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 27 | -24 | 8 |