Go Ahead Eagles vs Telstar - prediction, team news, lineups

Go Ahead Eagles invited SC Telstar to De Adelaarshorst successful Deventer for an Eredivisie fixture connected Friday.

Ninth-placed hosts, winless successful 5 matches, instrumentality connected a Telstar broadside sixteenth successful the array and chasing a archetypal triumph successful 8 attempts.

Match preview

Joseph Oosting's broadside beryllium ninth successful the Eredivisie table, their 2 wins, 5 draws and 2 defeats from 9 matches producing 11 points.

Four of Go Ahead Eagles' past 5 outings person ended level, taking successful 3-3 draws against FC Utrecht and Sparta Rotterdam either broadside of 1-1 stalemates with FC Groningen and NEC Nijmegen.

That bushed of parity was breached successful the worst imaginable manner successful the IJssel derby connected Sunday, arsenic Go Ahead Eagles shipped 4 goals successful a 4-1 decision astatine PEC Zwolle.

Soren Tengstedt has scored 5 goals from an precocious relation successful Oosting's 4-2-3-1 already this season, the astir of immoderate Go Ahead Eagles player.

Oosting lone took complaint astatine De Adelaarshorst successful June 2026 connected a two-year contract, arriving aft predecessor Melvin Boel departed by communal consent pursuing a 12th-place decorativeness that fell good abbreviated of the club's ambitions a twelvemonth aft their archetypal large trophy successful 92 years.

It is Go Ahead Eagles' 3rd caput manager successful 3 seasons, and Oosting himself arrives having been dismissed by some FC Twente and Royal Antwerp FC successful the 12 months earlier taking the job, with Friday's crippled followed 4 days aboriginal by a KNVB Beker necktie distant astatine Koninklijke HFC.

Telstar inhabit 16th spot with conscionable six points from 9 matches, sitting successful the Eredivisie's relegation play-off portion and lone 1 constituent down 15th-placed PEC Zwolle.

Henk Brugge's broadside person scored conscionable 10 goals successful 9 league matches, level with PEC Zwolle for the second-fewest tally successful the division.

A azygous triumph from the opening play is the lone triumph Telstar person to amusement from 9 matches, with 3 draws and 5 defeats pursuing since.

That winless series present stretches to 8 matches, extended by a 2-2 gully astatine ADO Den Haag and a 3-4 location decision to Feyenoord successful the abstraction of a week.

Brugge was lone appointed successful May 2026, arriving from SC Heerenveen, wherever helium had served arsenic adjunct manager since 2023, succeeding Anthony Correia aft the second near for FC Utrecht.

The aboriginal tenure has coincided with a investigating fixture list, and a travel to a Go Ahead Eagles broadside six places and 5 points supra them represents different measurement successful a conflict to debar an contiguous relegation fight.

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Team News

Pim Saathof remains sidelined for Go Ahead Eagles with the genu wounded that has kept him retired since May 2025, with his instrumentality not expected until astir the crook of the year.

Eus Waayers is besides absent, the defender having been missing since mid-September, leaving Oosting with a near-complete squad to take from otherwise.

Rui Mendes with an chartless wounded for Telstar up of the travel to Deventer, with a instrumentality day chartless and is the lone subordinate unavailable for Oosting.

That leaves the caput manager with astir his afloat squad to prime from, with Patrick Brouwer, a regular fixture successful onslaught this season, apt to clasp his spot up front.

Go Ahead Eagles imaginable starting lineup:

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

Telstar imaginable starting lineup:

Koeman Jr; Peersman, Soualhia, Valk, Alders; Rossen, Owusu, Shenkman; Brouwer, Thorisson, Martha

We say: Go Ahead Eagles 2-1 Telstar

Go Ahead Eagles' location draws this play constituent to a broadside inactive searching for power successful matches alternatively than a deficiency of quality, and Telstar's meagre instrumentality of 10 goals from 9 matches offers them an attainable way backmost to winning ways.

Recent past offers a enactment of caution, though: Go Ahead Eagles person failed to bushed Telstar successful immoderate of their past 3 meetings, losing 4-2 successful past season's league fixture and past 2-1 to them successful a KNVB Beker quarter-final arsenic holders, either broadside of a 1-1 gully astatine De Adelaarshorst.

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