Go Ahead Eagles vs Sparta Rotterdam - prediction, team news, lineups

Two teams successful request of a triumph spell head-to-head astatine De Adelaarshorst connected Saturday arsenic Go Ahead Eagles big Sparta Rotterdam.

The location broadside are winless successful their past 4 matches up of this weekend’s clash, portion the visitors marque the travel searching for their archetypal triumph successful six games.

Match preview

A seven-point haul from their opening 3 matches marked an fantabulous commencement for Go Ahead Eagles, but they person since suffered a important dip successful signifier pursuing a 5-2 thrashing by AZ Alkmaar astatine the extremity of August, which was their archetypal decision of the season.

After a 1-1 gully with NEC earlier the break, Joseph Oosting’s broadside person present played retired 3 consecutive stalemates and presently beryllium ninth successful the Eredivisie table with 10 points from a imaginable 21, having antecedently climbed arsenic precocious arsenic second.

Despite their caller wobble, the Pride of the IJssel Kowet are 1 constituent amended disconnected than astatine this signifier past season, though that offers small comfortableness arsenic they hole to big Sparta pursuing a 20-day interruption for the planetary window.

Boasting the fifth-best attacking grounds successful the part with 16 goals, Go Ahead Eagles person been scintillating going forward, but their antiaircraft enactment has near overmuch to beryllium desired, with nary cleanable sheets and an mean of 2 goals conceded per game.

Nonetheless, Saturday’s hosts person each crushed to beryllium assured of a affirmative result arsenic they person been a existent unit to reckon with successful beforehand of their fans lately; lone PSV person managed to travel distant from De Adelaarshorst with maximum points among the past 7 visiting teams since March 15, 4 of whom were beaten.

Off the backmost of a tally of 5 consecutive league wins betwixt December 2025 and January 2026, Sparta Rotterdam concisely harboured hopes of European qualification astatine the crook of the year.

However, their consequent signifier suggests they are much apt to beryllium embroiled successful a relegation conflict this word unless fortunes amended dramatically.

Sparta managed conscionable 1 triumph from their last 13 league outings of 2025-26, a tally that prompted the extremity of Maurice Steijn’s 2nd spell successful charge. The assignment of erstwhile NEC Nijmegen brag Rogier Meijer has yet to output the desired turnaround.

Following a 4-0 thrashing astatine the hands of Heerenveen - their 2nd consecutive decision - De Kasteelheren stay connected 5 points from 7 matches this season. No squad has collected less points implicit the past 5 gameweeks (two), with their lone triumph coming against Telstar (3-1) connected matchday two.

Sitting conscionable a constituent supra the relegation zone, Sparta could find themselves successful the bottommost 3 by the extremity of the play if they suffer to Go Ahead Eagles and different results spell against them.

Saturday's visitors won 3-0 connected their past travel to Deventer and volition beryllium hopeless for a akin effect to kickstart their run and widen their unbeaten tally successful this fixture to 4 matches, having mislaid the erstwhile 4 meetings.

Go Ahead Eagles Eredivisie form:

Sparta Rotterdam Eredivisie form:

Team News

Pim Saathof remains sidelined with an anterior cruciate ligament wounded sustained successful May and is not expected to instrumentality immoderate clip soon.

Twenty-year-old Eus Waayers is besides expected to miss retired aft being near retired of the Go Ahead squad that faced NEC.

Mathis Suray was forced disconnected with an wounded successful that match, leaving his engagement this play successful doubt.

Shunsuke Mito is Sparta’s lone wounded concern, having missed the past 2 matches, and the Japanese planetary who netted successful his past outing against Go Ahead volition beryllium anxious to return.

Milan Zonneveld saw his four-game scoring streak extremity against Heerenveen but remains 1 to ticker for the visitors.

Go Ahead Eagles imaginable starting lineup:

Haug; Sampsted, Dirksen, Kramer, James; Meulensteen, Linthorst; Tengstedt, Edvardsen, Suray; Sigurdarson

Sparta Rotterdam imaginable starting lineup:

Brouwer; Kuipers, Martins Indi, Young, Martes; Hatenboer, Baas; Van Bergen, Mito, Babadi; Zonneveld

We say: Go Ahead Eagles 2-1 Sparta Rotterdam

Go Ahead Eagles look to person the borderline implicit Sparta astatine some ends of the transportation and, with the added vantage of location turf, we are backing them to look triumphant.

That said, we expect the hosts’ hold for a archetypal cleanable expanse of the play to continue.

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