Fortuna Sittard vs Telstar - prediction, team news, lineups

High-flying Fortuna Sittard instrumentality to Eredivisie enactment this weekend, hosting Telstar astatine the Fortuna Sittard Stadion connected Saturday.

The location broadside statesman this weekend’s circular of fixtures successful sixth spot with 19 points - 10 places and 10 points wide of the visitors.

Match preview

A travel to Feyenoord, who had won 3 consecutive meetings betwixt the teams, threatened to extremity Fortuna’s six-game unbeaten run, particularly aft Luciano Valente opened the scoring conscionable earlier the hr mark. However, Shiloh ‘t Zand equalised with 4 minutes remaining to unit a stock of the spoils.

While immoderate whitethorn reason the constituent flattered Danny Buijs’s men fixed their performance, it was a reward for their resilience, a prime they person displayed successful abundance since a 5-1 drubbing astatine the hands of Ajax successful mid-September.

Having collected conscionable 7 points from a imaginable 15 successful Sittard-Geleen, Fortuna’s instrumentality to signifier inactive has country for betterment via accordant results astatine home. A 1-0 triumph implicit Excelsior successful their past location outing suggests they are moving successful the close direction.

Bottom of the league successful mean shot possession this word (35.7%), Fortuna stay a broadside champion known for their off-the-ball work. They finished second-bottom successful this metric past season, lone up of relegated Heracles.

With each of their adjacent six matches coming against teams presently beneath them successful the table, Fortuna person an accidental to physique a sustained tally of affirmative results and participate the 2nd fractional of the play good positioned for a European push.

After astir 3 months, Telstar yet ended their hold for a archetypal triumph since beating NEC Nijmegen connected the opening weekend, moving retired emphatic 4-2 winners implicit FC Utrecht successful Sunday’s clash astatine BUKO Stadion.

The triumph came astatine a important clip for manager Henk Brugge, who was nether accrued scrutiny aft his broadside were knocked retired of the KNVB Beker archetypal circular by lower-league absorption Almere City conscionable 4 days earlier.

Two points adrift of safety, different Telstar decision this play could heap the unit backmost connected Brugge and their distant grounds this play has been dismal, with conscionable 1 win, 4 points, and 4 goals scored from 5 matches connected the road.

However, De Witte Leeuwen are unbeaten successful their past 5 trips to the Fortuna Sittard Stadion dating backmost to August 2014, and volition gully assurance from their astir caller travel successful March, erstwhile they cruised to a 4-1 victory.

Facing a broadside with the champion big-chance conversion complaint successful the part (76.9%), Saturday’s visitors volition beryllium wary of conceding excessively galore opportunities, contempt boasting a important vantage successful clear-cut chances created (23-10).

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Team News

Rodrigo Guth and Lequincio Zeefuik some limped disconnected with injuries successful Fortuna’s past outing and are doubtful for Saturday’s clash.

This could unfastened the doorway for Ivan Marquez and Kristoffer Peterson - some substitutes past clip retired - to travel into the hosts’ starting lineup.

Twenty-one-year-old Gerald Alders has missed Telstar’s past 3 outings and remains a uncertainty for this weekend.

Patrick Brouwer and Rui Mendes were besides absent against Utrecht, though the erstwhile is apt to instrumentality to enactment successful Sittard.

Tyrone Owusu has scored 5 goals and provided 1 assistance successful his past 5 matches for the visitors, making the midfielder 1 to watch.

Fortuna Sittard imaginable starting lineup:

Branderhorst; Pinto, Van Ottele, Marquez, Hubner, Dahlhaus; Ihattaren, Descotte, Brittijn, ‘t Zand; Zeefuik

Telstar imaginable starting lineup:

Koeman Jr; Peersman, Soualhia, Valk, Caschili; Rossen, Ahmed; Demircan, Owusu, Martha; Thorisson

We say: Fortuna Sittard 2-1 Telstar

Fortuna are playing their champion shot successful immoderate time, and that momentum makes them beardown favourites to borderline an out-of-sorts Telstar side.

We expect the location broadside to marque airy enactment of their visitors and caput into the planetary interruption connected a high.

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