📏 Form Guide

Telstar

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Telstar will play in this match following a 1-1 Eredivisie drawn game versus NEC.

In that match, Telstar managed 30% possession and 10 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Telstar was Sem van Duijn (32'). NEC Nijmegen had 21 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Tjaronn Chery (85') scored for NEC.

Fixtures featuring Telstar have often been lively encounters lately with high scoring being the norm. Over their past 6 games, a total of 21 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 9 of those being chalked up by Telstar. We will find out if that trend can be sustained in this game.

Coming into this meeting, Telstar have not won against Heracles Almelo in their last 6 league games.

Heracles Almelo

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against FC Zwolle in Eredivisie competition, Heracles Almelo will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Heracles Almelo had 55% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 3 on target. At the other end, PEC Zwolle had 9 shots on goal with 5 on target. Anselmo García MacNulty (19') was the scorer for FC Zwolle.

It is worth noting that Heracles Almelo have been starved of goals over their previous 6 games, contributing the unsatisfactory return of just 2. In those matches, Heraclieden have also seen the overall goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 15.

Leading up to this clash, Heracles Almelo:

• haven't been defeated by Telstar in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• are without a win away from home in their last 9 matches in the league. Very poor, indeed.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings going back to 13/08/2004 reveals that these encounters have not been happy ones for Telstar. They have not managed to come away with any wins at all while Heracles Almelo have dominated them, winning in 67 per cent of those games played.

An aggregate of 20 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 3 of them from Witte Leeuwen and 17 coming from Heraclieden. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.33.

The previous league fixture between the two was Eredivisie match day 15 on 06/12/2025 when the final score was Heracles Almelo 1-1 Telstar.

In that game, Heracles Almelo managed 46% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 6 on target. The scorer was Ivan Mesík (93').

For their opponents, Telstar got 11 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Milan Zonneveld (67') scored.

The referee was Danny Makkelie.

📰 Team News: Telstar

In our view, Witte Leeuwen will probably use the 3-4-2-1 formation for this game, beginning the first half with Ronald Koeman, N. Ogidi Nwankwo, Devon Koswal, Danny Bakker, Tyrese Noslin, Guus Offerhaus, Cedric Hatenboer, Jeff Hardeveld, Soufiane Hetli, Patrick Brouwer and Sem van Duijn.

📋 Team News: Heracles Almelo

We’re of the thinking that Heraclieden will likely begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, settling for Timo Jansink, Mimeirhel Benita, Damon Mirani, Sava Cestic, D. van der, Jan Zamburek, Erik Ahlstrand, Tristan van Gilst, Walid Ould-Chikh, Mario Engels and Luka Kulenovic.

⚡ Prediction

In this game, Heracles Almelo will manage to break down this Telstar side, but that is unlikely to be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re tipping a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning margin for Telstar at the end of this one. It’s a very tough call.

Lucas Pereira, 14:06 10/05/2026