📊 Form Guide

Fortuna Sittard

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Fortuna Sittard won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 3-2 Eredivisie defeat last time out to Vitesse.

In that game, Fortuna Sittard managed 50% possession and 19 attempts on goal with 10 of them on target. For Fortuna Sittard, goals were scored by Iñigo Córdoba (44') and Justin Lonwijk (50'). Vitesse got 10 shots on goal with 6 on target. Paxten Aaronson (22', 76') and Marco van Ginkel (68') scored for Vitesse.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games where Fortuna Sittard haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Fortuna Sittard have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 12 goals in the process.

Pre-game facts show that Fortuna Sittard:

• have not registered a win against Go Ahead Eagles in their last 3 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league games.

Go Ahead Eagles

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Feyenoord in Eredivisie competition, Go Ahead Eagles will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Go Ahead Eagles managed 41% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Go Ahead Eagles, the goals were scored by Jeffrey de Lange (25' Own goal) and Oliver Edvardsen (45'). For their opponents, Feyenoord got 17 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Luka Ivanušec (33') and Ayase Ueda (69') scored for Feyenoord.

The stats don’t lie, and Go Ahead Eagles have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 9 goals in all. In defence, Go Ahead Eagles could really do with shoring things up. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be sustained into this next game, of course.

Coming into this meeting, Go Ahead Eagles haven’t won away from home in the past 4 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 06/04/2018 shows us that Fortuna Sittard have won 2 of these & Go Ahead Eagles 4, with the number of drawn games being 0.

A combined total of 16 goals were produced between them in this period, with 5 for Sittard and 11 netted by Trots aan de IJssel. The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The last league clash between the two was Eredivisie match day 8 on 22/09/2023 which ended up with the score at Go Ahead Eagles 3-0 Fortuna Sittard.

The referee was Bas Nijhuis.

📋 Team News: Fortuna Sittard

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just the lone fitness concern for the Fortuna Sittard manager Danny Buijs to contend with from a near full-strength group. Arianit Ferati (unknown injury) will miss out.

We are thinking that Fortuna Sittard should make use of the 3-2-4-1 system this time, handing starts to Luuk Koopmans, Sadik Fofana, Rodrigo Guth, Siemen Voet, Nathangelo Markelo, Mitchell Dijks, Justin Lonwijk, Deroy Duarte, Alen Halilovic, Inigo Cordoba and Kaj Sierhuis.

ℹ️ Team News: Go Ahead Eagles

With a completely injury-free squad to pick from, the Go Ahead Eagles boss René Hake has no fitness worries at all before this game.

We’re of the thinking that Trots aan de IJssel seem most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 system, choosing Jeffrey De Lange, Mats Deijl, Gerrit Nauber, Joris Kramer, Dean James, Evert Linthorst, Xander Blomme, Bobby Adekanye, Willum Willumsson, Jakob Breum and Victor Edvardsen.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two, we feel that Go Ahead Eagles and Fortuna Sittard are both capable of scoring here.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw. That is why we are leaning toward a hard-fought 1-1 score draw when all is said and done.

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

Peter Guest, 17:10 03/05/2024