📏 Form Guide

Go Ahead Eagles

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Go Ahead Eagles will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 2-3 Eredivisie success versus NEC.

In that match, Go Ahead Eagles managed 65% possession and 27 attempts on goal with 14 on target. For Go Ahead Eagles, the goals were scored by Dean James (41'), Milan Smit (66') and Oliver Antman (75'). For their opponents, NEC Nijmegen got 10 shots on goal with 4 on target. Brayann Pereira (69') and Kento Shiogai (91') scored for NEC.

It has been all too rare in recent games that Go Ahead Eagles have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Go Ahead Eagles have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 11 goals on the way. Having said that, it remains to be seen if such a trend might continue on here in this game.

Coming into this meeting, Go Ahead Eagles have not been beaten in their last 8 home league matches. They have been so resilient here.

Willem II

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After a loss in their previous game against FC Utrecht in Eredivisie competition, Willem II will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Willem II had 36% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. For Willem II, the goals were scored by Boris Lambert (17') and Rúnar Þór Sigurgeirsson (83'). For their opponents, FC Utrecht had 15 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Sébastien Haller (67'), Noah Ohio (75') and Adrian Blake (85') scored for FC Utrecht.

The forward players for Willem II have struggled for goals in their past 6 clashes, netting the poor return of only 4. In those fixtures, Tricolores have also seen the collective goal tally of opposing teams equal 15.

Coming into this contest, Willem II haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 18/01/2015 shows that Go Ahead Eagles have won 2 of them & Willem II 4, with the number of drawn games being 0.

An aggregate of 11 goals were produced between them in these games, with 5 from Trots aan de IJssel and 6 for Tricolores. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.83.

The last league clash between the two was Eredivisie match day 2 on 18/08/2024 which ended up with the score at Willem II 2-0 Go Ahead Eagles.

That day, Willem II managed 48% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Goals were scored by Kyan Vaesen (21') and Ringo Meerveld (28').

On the other side, Go Ahead Eagles got 11 shots at goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Ingmar Oostrom.

📰 Team News: Go Ahead Eagles

Søren Tengstedt (Broken foot) and Jakob Breum (Foot injury) will not be taking part for Go Ahead Eagles manager Paul Simonis.

In our view, Trots aan de IJssel look set to make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation for the game, utilising Jari De Busser, Mats Deijl, Gerrit Nauber, Joris Kramer, Dean James, Evert Linthorst, Enric Llansana, Oliver Antman, Victor Edvardsen, Mathis Suray and Milan Smit.

🗞️ Team News: Willem II

Willem II boss Peter Maes has not got a full squad to pick from. Amine Lachkar (Groin surgery) and Dani Mathieu (Knee injury) can’t be considered.

We are inclined to think that Tricolores could decide to play in a 5-3-2 system, going with Thomas Didillon, Tommy St. Jago, Raffael Behounek, Erik Schouten, Mickael Tirpan, R. T. Sigurgeirsson, Jesse Bosch, Boris Lambert, Ringo Meerveld, Jeremy Bokila and Kyan Vaesen.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Go Ahead Eagles look set to fashion enough chances to find the net more than once while possibly not conceding when they line up against Willem II, who might well find it difficult to score themselves.

We reckon that it will be a pretty comfortable 2-0 winning margin for Go Ahead Eagles when all’s said and done.

Peter Guest, 11:06 16/03/2025