📏 Form Guide

Heracles Almelo

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Heracles Almelo will be hoping to bounce back here following a 4-1 Eredivisie defeat in their last game at the hands of PSV Eindhoven.

In that match, Heracles Almelo had 32% possession and 3 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Heracles Almelo was Mario Engels (75'). For their opponents, PSV had 30 shots on goal with 11 on target. Malik Tillman (18', 40') and Ismael Saibari (21', 35') scored for PSV Eindhoven.

Over their prior six games, Erwin van de Looi's Heracles Almelo have managed to score a total of 6 times, with that being an average number of goals scored per match of 1.

NEC

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NEC come into this encounter following a 3-0 Eredivisie win over NAC Breda in their last fixture.

In that match, NEC managed 46% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. For NEC, the scorers were Brayann Pereira (31') and Bryan Linssen (67', 70'). NAC Breda had 9 shots on goal with 0 of them on target.

Rogier Meijer's NEC have had reason to celebrate scoring 9 times throughout their latest 6 matches. The number of goals that they have conceded during those same clashes comes to 5.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings going back to 29/08/2021 tells us that Heracles Almelo have won 3 of them and NEC 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

A sum of 12 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 6 of them for Heraclieden and 6 being from NEC. That is an average goals per game value of 2.

🗞️ Team News: Heracles Almelo

Nikolai Laursen (Cruciate ligament tear) and Sava-Arangel Cestic (Broken ankle) are unavailable for Heracles Almelo manager Erwin van de Looi.

We are thinking that Heraclieden will probably use the 4-2-3-1 system for this one featuring Fabian de Keijzer, Mimeirhel Benita, Damon Mirani, Ivan Mesik, Mats Rots, B. De Keersmaecker, Jan Zamburek, Juho Talvitie, Thomas Bruns, Suf Podgoreanu and Jizz Hornkamp.

📋 Team News: NEC

NEC manager Rogier Meijer has to currently contend with reduced team options. Dirk Proper (Head injury) and Başar Önal (unknown injury) can’t be considered.

From our viewpoint, NEC seem most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting the game with Robin Roefs, Brayann Pereira, Philippe Sandler, Ivan Marquez, Calvin Verdonk, Kodai Sano, Lars Olden Larsen, Sontje Hansen, Sami Ouaissa, Thomas Ouwejan and Kento Shiogai.

✨ Prediction

Looking at these two, we feel that NEC and Heracles Almelo are both capable of scoring here.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level. That is why we are leaning toward a very close game with a 1-1 scoreline when the referee blows the full-time whistle.

Lucas Pereira, 12:03 18/05/2025