📊 Form Guide

Fortuna Sittard

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Fortuna Sittard will be hoping to bounce back here following a 4-1 Eredivisie loss in their previous game against NEC.

In that game, Fortuna Sittard had 53% possession and 9 shots on goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Fortuna Sittard was Loreintz Rosier (39'). At the other end, NEC Nijmegen had 14 shots at goal with 7 on target. Sami Ouaissa (34'), Vito van Crooij (69'), Calvin Verdonk (71') and Thomas Ouwejan (82') scored for NEC.

At least three goals per match have been seen in 6 of the last 6 meetings where Fortuna Sittard have participated. Opposing sides scored 16 of them in this period whereas Fortuna Sittard totted up 12.

FC Zwolle

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FC Zwolle will go into the encounter following a 3-1 Eredivisie win to defeat PSV Eindhoven in their last outing.

In that match, FC Zwolle had 30% possession and 7 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. For FC Zwolle, goals were scored by Filip Krastev (2', 38') and Dylan Vente (94'). For their opponents, PSV had 18 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Johan Bakayoko (25') scored for PSV Eindhoven.

Over the course of 5 of the previous 6 clashes featuring FC Zwolle, a notably low volume of goals have been hit between them and opposing sides. The overall average number of goals per game in that spell is just 1.5, with the average goals for Blauwvingers equalling 0.83. That aside, time will tell if that trend shall continue on in this next match.

Looking at their past form shows that FC Zwolle:

• are undefeated in their last 2 away league matches.
• are without a win away from home in their last 16 matches in the league. What a horror away run it has been.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings dating back to 16/01/2021, there has been little to separate the clubs with Fortuna Sittard winning 3 of those games, FC Zwolle 3 and 0 being draws in normal time.

A total of 14 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 7 of them from Sittard and 7 coming from Blauwvingers. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

The last league clash featuring these clubs was Eredivisie match day 12 on 09/11/2024 which ended up with the score at FC Zwolle 3-1 Fortuna Sittard.

That time, FC Zwolle managed 59% possession and 14 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Goals were scored by Dylan Mbayo (53', 67') and Damian van der Haar (57').

At the other end, Fortuna Sittard got 14 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Ezequiel Bullaude (33') scored.

The referee was Edwin van de Graaf.

🗞️ Team News: Fortuna Sittard

Onur Demir (Fitness) and Kaj Sierhuis (Knee injury) will be missing for Fortuna Sittard gaffer Danny Buijs.

It’s our opinion that Fortuna Sittard could employ a 4-2-3-1 system and select Luuk Koopmans, Ivo Pinto, Shawn Adewoye, Darijo Grujcic, Jasper Dahlhaus, Edouard Michut, Loreintz Rosier, Samuel Bastien, Alen Halilovic, Kristoffer Peterson and Alessio Da Cruz.

📋 Team News: FC Zwolle

We are inclined to think that Blauwvingers appear most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, choosing Mike Hauptmeijer, Eliano Reijnders, Simon Graves, A. Garcia McNulty, Damian van der Haar, Anouar El Azzouzi, Davy van den Berg, Dylan Mbayo, Jamiro Monteiro, Filip Krastev and Dylan Vente.

💭 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that FC Zwolle will need to apply a lot of pressure to breach the defence of this Fortuna Sittard team who we reckon will get the vital goal that wins it.

That’s why we have predicted a very competitive game with a 1-0 win for Fortuna Sittard at the conclusion of the game.

A close call.

Renata Leite, 11:01 26/01/2025