SC Heerenveen vs Sparta Rotterdam Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

SC Heerenveen

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SC Heerenveen won’t want a repeat of their last result here after a 2-0 Eredivisie - Europa Play-offs loss in their previous game against AZ.

Dani de Wit (5') and Zakaria Aboukhlal (88') scored for AZ.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where SC Heerenveen haven’t conceded. In fact, SC Heerenveen have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 14 goals in the process.

Sparta Rotterdam

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Sparta Rotterdam will go into this game following a 1-3 Eredivisie win to beat Heracles Almelo in their last game.

For Sparta Rotterdam, goals were scored by Arno Verschueren (45'), Lennart Thy (69') and Mario Engels (79'). Sinan Bakış (83') scored for Heracles Almelo.

Maurice Steijn's Sparta Rotterdam have found the back of the net 9 times in the course of their latest 6 matches. The total of goals that they have conceded during those same matches adds up to 5.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 26/01/2018 shows us that SC Heerenveen have won 3 of these games and Sparta Rotterdam 1, with the tally of draws standing at 2.

In all, 16 goals were scored between them in these games, with 10 of them for De Superfriezen and 6 belonging to Kasteelheren. The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The last league clash featuring the two was Eredivisie match day 28 on 03/04/2022 which ended up with the score at Sparta Rotterdam 1-1 SC Heerenveen.

That day, Sparta Rotterdam had 50% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Their only player to score was Vito van Crooij (52').

On the other side, SC Heerenveen got 7 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Amin Sarr (67') was the scorer.

The referee was Allard Lindhout.

📰 Team News: SC Heerenveen

The SC Heerenveen manager Kees van Wonderen will be happy not to have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this game thanks to a completely injury-free squad available for selection.

We are thinking that De Superfriezen should kick off with a 3-2-3-2 formation in the match and select Andries Noppert, Sven van Beek, Pawel Bochniewicz, Joost van Aken, Milan van Ewijk, Rami Kaib, Anas Tahiri, Mats Koehlert, Thom Haye, Sydney van Hooijdonk and Amin Sarr.

📰 Team News: Sparta Rotterdam

We believe Kasteelheren could decide to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system, starting the game with Nick Olij, Dirk Abels, Bart Vriends, Adil Auassar, Aaron Meijers, Jonathan de Guzman, Arno Verschueren, Jason Eyenga-Lokilo, Younes Namli, Vito van Crooij and Tobias Lauritsen.

🔮 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Sparta Rotterdam will really need to work well to get anything against this SC Heerenveen team who will likely score at least once to gain the upper hand.

That’s why our selection here is for a very even match with a 1-0 winning score for SC Heerenveen when the full-time whistle blows.

There should be little in it.

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

Andre Moura, 23:41 31/07/2022