Vitesse vs FC Groningen Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Vitesse

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Vitesse are hoping to win again after their last result, a 2-0 Eredivisie success versus SC Cambuur.

The only player to score from Vitesse was Bartosz Białek (56', 61').

Fewer than three goals per game were recorded in 5 of the past 6 meetings where Vitesse have taken part. Breaking down the goal attribution during this period, opposition teams scored an aggregate of 4 and Vitesse got themselves 8.

Going into this encounter, Vitesse are unbeaten in their previous 4 league matches at home.

FC Groningen

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After a losing effort in their last game against Ajax in Eredivisie competition, FC Groningen and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

For FC Groningen, the goals were scored by Florian Krüger (38') and Laros Duarte (87'). Dušan Tadić (18'), Brian Brobbey (68') and Jurriën Timber (81') scored for Ajax.

Looking at their form, and FC Groningen have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, conceding 12 goals overall. At the back, FC Groningen have clearly had some problems. That kind of trend won’t necessarily follow through into this game, though.

Coming into this meeting, FC Groningen have not won away from home in their last 13 league games. They clearly need to do something about it.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 08/02/2020 shows us that Vitesse have won 3 of these games & FC Groningen 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A combined total of 10 goals were scored between them in these games, with 5 for Vitas and 5 being from Trots van het Noorden. That’s an average goals per game of 1.67.

The previous league clash between the two was Eredivisie match day 5 on 04/09/2022 when the final score was FC Groningen 0-1 Vitesse.

The match was refereed by Serdar Gözübüyük.

ℹ️ Team News: Vitesse

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just the lone fitness concern for the Vitesse boss Phillip Cocu to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength group. Davy Pröpper (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) will miss out.

In our view, Vitas will possibly use a 4-4-2 system in the match, utilising Kjell Scherpen, Dominik Oroz, Ryan Flamingo, Nicolas Isimat-Mirin, Maximilian Wittek, Million Manhoef, Melle Meulensteen, Marco van Ginkel, Kacper Kozlowski, Matus Bero and Bartosz Bialek.

📰 Team News: FC Groningen

FC Groningen manager Dennis van der Ree has multiple availability issues to deal with. Paulos Abraham (Knee Surgery), Liam van Gelderen (Unknown Injury) and Thijmen Blokzijl (Ankle Injury) will not be playing here.

We’re of the thinking that Trots van het Noorden will likely play in a 4-2-3-1 lineup, going with Peter Leeuwenburgh, Jorg Schreuders, Radinio Balker, Mads Bech, Nordin Musampa, Tomas Suslov, Laros Duarte, Oliver Antman, Johan Hove, Isak Dybvik and Ricardo Pepi.

💡 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, FC Groningen will manage to break down this Vitesse side, but it is unlikely to be as many as they will have scored against them.

We reckon that it will be a very close game with a 2-1 advantage for Vitesse after the 90. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

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

Peter Guest, 00:51 17/05/2023