📏 Form Guide

FC Twente

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FC Twente will be looking for an improved result here after the 2-0 Eredivisie losing effort in their last game against Ajax.

In that game, FC Twente had 47% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. For their opponents, Ajax had 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Jordan Henderson (28') and Wout Weghorst (90') scored for Ajax.

Joseph Oosting's FC Twente have netted a sum total of 8 times over their past half-dozen outings. At the other end, the tally of goals that have been scored against them in that same time amounts to 9.

NEC

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NEC will go into this clash after a 1-2 Eredivisie win over Heracles Almelo in their last outing.

In that match, NEC had 48% possession and 12 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For NEC, the goals were scored by Sontje Hansen (55') and Başar Önal (63'). On the other side, Heracles Almelo got 20 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Sem Scheperman (47') was the scorer for Heracles Almelo.

A succession of accomplished displays from the NEC defence has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their past 6 outings in total. During the same time, their own attack force has managed to score 11.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head meetings going back to 07/08/2022 shows us that FC Twente have won 4 of these and NEC 1, with the number of draws standing at 1.

A combined total of 17 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 12 of them from De Tukkers and 5 coming from NEC. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The last league clash between these sides was Eredivisie match day 20 on 23/02/2025 when it ended FC Twente 2-0 NEC.

That day, FC Twente had 48% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Bas Kuipers (19', 80').

At the other end, NEC had 11 shots on goal with 2 on target.

The referee was Danny Makkelie.

📋 Team News: FC Twente

In our view, De Tukkers should employ a 4-2-3-1 system and select Przemyslaw Tyton, Bart van Rooij, Mees Hilgers, Max Bruns, Bas Kuipers, Mathias Kjoeloe, Michal Sadilek, Younes Taha, Sem Steijn, Michel Vlap and R. van Wolfswinkel.

🗞️ Team News: NEC

NEC manager Rogier Meijer has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Dirk Proper (Head injury) and Başar Önal (unknown injury) will not be playing here.

We’re of the thinking that NEC will likely elect for a 4-3-3 system by sending out Robin Roefs, Brayann Pereira, Philippe Sandler, Ivan Marquez, Calvin Verdonk, Kodai Sano, Sami Ouaissa, Vito van Crooij, Sontje Hansen, Bryan Linssen and Thomas Ouwejan.

💡 Prediction

In this game, FC Twente should stay in control for long periods of time and should be able to convert a few of the chances that they create.

At the same time, NEC could well find it tough finding the net themselves although we do think that they will probably end up being dangerous at times, too.

We’re therefore anticipating a comfortable 3-1 winning margin for FC Twente at full-time.

Lucas Pereira, 18:00 22/05/2025