FC Utrecht vs Fortuna Sittard - prediction, team news, lineups

FC Utrecht are preparing for their last lucifer of the Eredivisie season against Fortuna Sittard connected Sunday astatine a sold-out Stadion Galgenwaard, with some sides inactive warring for important objectives heading into matchday 34.

Ron Jans’s broadside could unafraid a Europa League qualification spot with victory, provided AZ Alkmaar driblet points astatine location against NAC Breda, portion the visitors question to Utrecht successful 11th spot with thing to play for.

Match preview

Utrecht person enjoyed an awesome tally of signifier since the opening of February, signaling 8 wins, 3 draws, and conscionable 3 defeats crossed their past 14 Eredivisie matches.

That beardown signifier was underlined by past weekend’s awesome 2-1 triumph implicit Ajax astatine the Johan Cruyff Arena, a effect that dealt a large stroke to the Amsterdam club’s Champions League hopes portion strengthening Utrecht’s ain propulsion for Europa League qualification adjacent season.

The triumph implicit Ajax besides marked a instrumentality to winning ways connected the roadworthy for Utreg aft successive defeats to Eredivisie champions PSV Eindhoven successful a thrilling 4-3 encounter and a dense 5-0 nonaccomplishment to Excelsior, wherever Matisse Didden’s reddish paper astatine 1-0 down proved costly.

Those back-to-back distant defeats stay Utrecht’s lone losses since a 1-0 location reverse to Feyenoord successful February, with Jans’s broadside collecting 25 points from a imaginable 42 during that play to found themselves arsenic 1 of the division’s astir in-form teams.

Despite their beardown caller form, Utrecht are presently without a triumph successful their past 3 meetings against Fortuna Sittard, losing doubly and drafting once, portion the reverse fixture earlier this play ended successful a constrictive 1-0 victory for Sunday’s visitors.

Fortuna ended a tally of 5 matches without triumph by edging PEC Zwolle 3-2 past weekend, though their inability to support power of matches was again evident aft allowing their opponents backmost into the contention contempt starring by 3 goals aft 65 minutes.

Defensive problems person consistently undermined Fortuna passim the season, with the nine possessing the third-worst antiaircraft grounds successful the Eredivisie aft conceding 61 goals, amended lone than Heracles Almelo and PEC Zwolle.

Indiscipline and an inability to clasp onto leads person besides go recurring themes for Danny Buijs’s side, with akin collapses seen successful defeats to Heerenveen and Feyenoord, wherever Fortuna squandered advantages and were further hampered by reddish cards.

Before the triumph implicit PEC Zwolle, the Fortunezen had mislaid 4 of their erstwhile 5 matches, representing a large diminution for a squad that had been pushing for European qualification lone a fewer months ago, though their Eredivisie endurance for the 2026–27 play is present secure.

Fortuna’s antiaircraft portion has present gone 22 consecutive matches without keeping a cleanable expanse and the visitors person suffered 10 distant defeats this season, though caller meetings with Utrecht whitethorn connection encouragement aft avoiding decision and a extremity conceded successful their past 2 encounters.

FC Utrecht Eredivisie form:

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Team News

FC Utrecht striker Sebastien Haller was omitted from Cote d’Ivoire’s squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup aft caput manager Emerse Fae announced his selections connected Friday, with the determination perchance serving arsenic either a setback oregon other information up of the play finale.

Jans has confirmed that Artem Stepanov and Can Bozdogan volition instrumentality to the squad for the sojourn of Fortuna, though Stepanov is not expected to commencement immediately, with Haller apt to pb the enactment against a broadside that has struggled defensively successful aerial situations this season.

Miguel Rodriguez, Emirhan Demircan, Victor Jensen, Jaygo van Ommeren, Oualid Agougil, and Michael Brouwer are each unavailable done assorted injuries for the hosts.

For Fortuna, Ivo Pinto and Paul Gladon are suspended pursuing their caller reddish cards against Heerenveen and Feyenoord respectively.

The lack of Shawn Adewoye further weakens an already susceptible antiaircraft unit, portion injuries passim midfield and defence proceed to restrict Danny Buijs’s options up of the travel to Utrecht.

Fortuna are besides without Ramazan Bayram and Daley Sinkgraven owed to genu injuries, portion Luka Tunjic and Justin Lonwijk are sidelined with groin and musculus problems respectively, arsenic Nick Marsman and Edouard Michut implicit the visitors’ lengthy wounded list.

FC Utrecht imaginable starting lineup:

Barkas; Vesterlund, Eerdhuijzen, Van der Hoorn, El Karouani; Engwanda, Zechiel; Karlsson, Cathline, De Wit; Haller

Fortuna Sittard imaginable starting lineup:

Branderhorst; Kasanwirjo, Hubner, Van Ottele, Bisschops; Oukili, Schenkhuizen; Duijvestijn, Peterson, Limnios; Sierhuis

We say: FC Utrecht 3-1 Fortuna Sittard

Utrecht caput into the last lucifer of the play successful fantabulous signifier and volition invited Fortuna Sittard to a sold-out Stadion Galgenwaard with European qualification inactive wrong reach.

While the visitors volition anticipation to spoil the occasion, we expect Utreg’s attacking prime and momentum to beryllium excessively strong, with the hosts backed to extremity the run connected a precocious with an entertaining victory.

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