📊 Form Guide

Vitesse

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Vitesse won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 2-0 Eredivisie defeat in their last game at the hands of AZ.

In that match, Vitesse managed 39% possession and 8 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. AZ got 17 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Dani de Wit (53') and Vangelis Pavlidis (64') scored for AZ.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times where Vitesse have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Vitesse have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 10 goals during that time.

Taking a look at their past results, Vitesse:

• have not beaten Sparta Rotterdam in their last 6 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 6 league matches. Things will have to change soon.

Sparta Rotterdam

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Sparta Rotterdam will come into the encounter following a 4-0 Eredivisie win with the defeat of Fortuna Sittard in their last outing.

In that match, Sparta Rotterdam had 55% possession and 17 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. For Sparta Rotterdam, the goals were scored by Arno Verschueren (28'), Tobias Lauritsen (58', 88') and Camiel Neghli (91'). Fortuna Sittard had 14 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

The stats don’t lie, and Sparta Rotterdam have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 9 goals overall. Defensively, Sparta Rotterdam could really do with shoring things up. That pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this match, though.

Leading up to this clash, Sparta Rotterdam:

• remain unbeaten by Vitesse when having played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their past head to head clashes stretching back to 15/12/2021 shows that Vitesse have won 1 of them & Sparta Rotterdam 4, with the number of draws standing at 1.

A combined sum of 17 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 5 of them from Vitas and 12 being from Kasteelheren. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The last league match between these sides was Eredivisie match day 9 on 24/09/2023 which ended up with the score at Sparta Rotterdam 1-0 Vitesse.

The match was refereed by Richard Martens.

🗞️ Team News: Vitesse

Miliano Jonathans (Knee injury), Mica Pinto (Knee injury), Davy Pröpper (Cruciate ligament injury) and Fodé Fofana (Knee injury) will not be able to play for Vitesse manager Edward Sturing.

It’s our opinion that Vitas will possibly use a 4-3-3 formation in the match featuring Eloy Room, Carlens Arcus, Nicolas Isimat-Mirin, Ramon Hendriks, Enzo Cornelisse, Paxten Aaronson, Mathijs Tielemans, Marco van Ginkel, Anis Hadj Moussa, Thomas Buitink and Amine Boutrah.

🗞️ Team News: Sparta Rotterdam

Sparta Rotterdam manager Jeroen Rijsdijk has to choose a team with limited availability. Django Warmerdam (unknown injury) and Joshua Kitolano (Groin injury) miss out here.

There’s a good chance that Kasteelheren will likely utilise a 4-1-4-1 formation, starting Nick Olij, Said Bakari, Rick Meissen, Mike Eerdhuijzen, D. van der, Jonathan de Guzman, Shunsuke Mito, Pelle Clement, Arno Verschueren, Koki Saito and Tobias Lauritsen.

✨ Prediction

Our thinking is that Sparta Rotterdam and Vitesse may well end up cancelling each other out here.

It appears that a draw might be on the cards. We’re therefore tipping a very even match with a 1-1 draw at the end of the 90.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 16:02 02/04/2024