📏 Form Guide

Fortuna Sittard

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Fortuna Sittard won’t want a repeat of their last result here following the 4-0 Eredivisie losing effort in their last game against Sparta Rotterdam.

In that game, Fortuna Sittard managed 45% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Sparta Rotterdam had 17 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. Arno Verschueren (28'), Tobias Lauritsen (58', 88') and Camiel Neghli (91') scored for Sparta Rotterdam.

Matches involving Fortuna Sittard have tended to be engaging affairs of late with a lot of goalmouth action being a common characteristic. Over their past half dozen clashes, the sum total of 21 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 12 of these belonging to Fortuna Sittard. We will have to see if that trend can be continued on in this game.

Their past results show that Fortuna Sittard:

• have not beaten NEC in their last 3 league games.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

NEC

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NEC will go into the encounter following on from a 3-1 Eredivisie win as they beat PSV Eindhoven in their previous match.

In that game, NEC had 34% possession and 8 shots at goal with 4 on target. For NEC, the scorers were Lasse Schöne (43'), Kodai Sano (49') and Sylla Sow (63'). On the other side, PSV had 27 shots on goal with 6 on target. Johan Bakayoko (20') scored for PSV Eindhoven.

Rogier Meijer's NEC have seen their efforts on goal rewarded a total of 14 times throughout their latest sextet of matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during those same matches equals 5.

Going into this one, NEC haven't been defeated by Fortuna Sittard when they've played them away from home in the last 5 league games. A solid away record against them.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their past head to head meetings dating back to 02/10/2021 shows us that Fortuna Sittard have won 1 of them & NEC 3, with the number of drawn games standing at 2.

An aggregate of 19 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 of them for Sittard and 12 coming from NEC. The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The previous league game between the two was Eredivisie match day 23 on 15/12/2023 which finished with the scoreline of NEC 4-1 Fortuna Sittard.

The referee was Edwin van de Graaf.

ℹ️ Team News: Fortuna Sittard

The Fortuna Sittard boss Danny Buijs doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match owing to a fully healthy group to choose from.

It’s our opinion that Fortuna Sittard look set to line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation for this game, utilising Michael Verrips, Ivo Pinto, Rodrigo Guth, Dimitris Siovas, Mitchell Dijks, Oguzhan Ozyakup, Deroy Duarte, Justin Lonwijk, Ragnar Oratmangoen, Inigo Cordoba and Kaj Sierhuis.

ℹ️ Team News: NEC

NEC boss Rogier Meijer has some current player fitness concerns. Kas de Wit (unknown injury), Bas Dost (heart problems) and Dirk Proper (Hamstring injury) can’t be considered.

We believe NEC will likely utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation by sending out Jasper Cillessen, Bart van Rooij, Philippe Sandler, Calvin Verdonk, Youri Baas, Mees Hoedemakers, Lasse Schoene, Roberto Gonzalez, Kodai Sano, Sontje Hansen and Koki Ogawa.

💡 Prediction

Our assessment is that NEC and Fortuna Sittard could both well score more than once here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

A draw looks like a realistic possibility but, again, we don’t expect it to end goalless. We therefore think that it’s going to be a great battle with a 2-2 score after 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 18:02 02/04/2024