📏 Form Guide

SC Heerenveen

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SC Heerenveen go into this game following on from a 3-3 Eredivisie draw vs FC Twente.

In that game, SC Heerenveen had 40% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. For SC Heerenveen, the scorers were Ion Nicolăescu (21'), Osame Sahraoui (38') and Thom Haye (57'). At the other end, FC Twente got 14 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Ricky van Wolfswinkel (11'), Daan Rots (13') and Robin Pröpper (36') scored for FC Twente.

Kees van Wonderen's SC Heerenveen have hit the back of the net a sum total of 9 times over their prior 6 outings. Conversely, the tally of goals that they have conceded in those same games stands at 8.

Coming into this fixture, SC Heerenveen are without a win at home for the past 2 league matches.

FC Utrecht

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FC Utrecht will go into the game following a 5-1 Eredivisie win in the defeat of FC Zwolle in their last outing.

In that match, FC Utrecht managed 52% possession and 18 shots at goal with 7 on target. For FC Utrecht, the goals were scored by Sam Lammers (47'), Jens Toornstra (49'), Isac Lidberg (77', 79') and Adrian Blake (87'). PEC Zwolle had 5 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Lennart Thy (60') was the scorer for FC Zwolle.

Ron Jans's FC Utrecht have fired home a total of 10 times in the course of their most recent 6 matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those matches comes to 8.

Leading up to this clash, FC Utrecht:

• are undefeated by SC Heerenveen when they've played them away from home in the last 8 league games. An fantastic away run.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head to head clashes going back to 08/05/2021 shows that SC Heerenveen have won 1 of these & FC Utrecht 4, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A sum of 12 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 5 of them for De Superfriezen and 7 being from Utreg. That’s an average goals per game of 2.

The last league contest featuring these sides was Eredivisie match day 2 on 20/08/2023 and the score finished FC Utrecht 0-2 SC Heerenveen.

The referee was Ingmar Oostrom.

🗞️ Team News: SC Heerenveen

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just a single fitness concern for the SC Heerenveen boss Kees van Wonderen to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength group. Luuk Brouwers (unknown injury) won’t play.

We are thinking that De Superfriezen should use a 4-2-3-1 formation this time featuring Mickey van der Hart, Oliver Braude, Sven van Beek, Pawel Bochniewicz, Mats Koehlert, Simon Olsson, Thom Haye, Patrik Waalemark, Anas Tahiri, Osame Sahraoui and Pelle van Amersfoort.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Utrecht

FC Utrecht boss Ron Jans has a number of players out of action. Taylor Booth (Knee injury), Jeppe Okkels (Knee injury), Anthony Descotte (Knee injury), Ole Romeny (Toe injury) and Tim Handwerker (Cruciate ligament tear) can’t be considered.

We believe Utreg seem most likely to utilise a 4-5-1 system, giving starts to Vasilios Barkas, Mark van der Maarel, Mike van der Hoorn, Nick Viergever, Souffian Elkarouani, Ryan Flamingo, Oscar Fraulo, Jens Toornstra, Victor Jensen, Isac Lidberg and Sam Lammers.

✨ Prediction

We believe that FC Utrecht have the firepower to break down this SC Heerenveen team, but it possibly won’t quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We can see a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning margin for SC Heerenveen by the conclusion of the game. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

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Peter Guest, 17:04 07/04/2024