Groningen vs. FC Twente - prediction, team news, lineups

Winless successful this fixture since 2017, Groningen invited FC Twente to Euroborg for Sunday's lunchtime matchday 5 Eredivisie encounter.

Fourteen matches person passed since September 2017, erstwhile they bushed Twente 1-0, and De FC's tally of consecutive defeats does not bode good heading into this weekend's encounter.

Match preview

Having started the play alternatively swimmingly with 2 wins from two, Groningen person present seen their aboriginal momentum punctured by back-to-back losses.

A dense 5-1 hammering distant astatine PSV Eindhoven ended Trots van het Noorden's four-match regular-season winning run, and a 3-2 decision connected location turf by Fortuna Sittard further deflated immoderate optimism Dick Lukkien's men had gathered.

Their inability to support cleanable sheets was not fatal erstwhile they scored much than the opponent, but that leaky rearguard has present been their undoing successful the past 2 games, adjacent if a decision distant astatine the division's defending champions tin beryllium excused.

Losing 3-2 to Fortuna successful a lucifer successful which they made 23 attempts to the Sittard outfit's 9 was disappointing, though, and Lukkien's men participate Sunday hoping to find immoderate antiaircraft balance.

The humanities precedent does small to assistance the temper astatine Euroborg, fixed the FC's 14-match winless streak successful this fixture implicit a nine-year period, 7 of which person ended successful defeat.

Indeed, John van den Brom's Reds volition beryllium alert of that grounds heading into this matchday 5 encounter, arsenic they question to widen it to 15 meetings without defeat.

The travelling fans volition person content successful their team's quality to bash conscionable that, having witnessed consecutive victories implicit PEC Zwolle and promoted Cambuur aft an opening-day 1-0 reverse astatine Heerenveen.

The Reds' free-scoring quality has been evident astatine the commencement of this season, with lone Heerenveen and Qarabag preventing the Tukkers from scoring successful 9 competitory games.

Losing to the Azerbaijani outfit, though, was not fatal, arsenic Van den Brom's men deed them for 4 successful Baku to scope the league signifier of the Conference League, securing a 4-1 occurrence aft losing the archetypal limb astatine location 1-0.

By pursuing up their outstanding turnaround successful Europe with a 4-1 triumph astatine Cambuur, Twente person risen to eighth successful an embryonic Eredivisie table, and they could participate the competition's coveted continental spots with a triumph and the close acceptable of results successful different fixtures.

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Team News

Marco Rente (back), Tyrique Mercera, Ryan Metu (unknown injury) and Malcolm Jeng (Achilles) are each sidelined for Groningen this weekend.

Of those available, Brynjolfur Darri Willumsson is the starring match-winning threat, having netted successful 3 consecutive league games against FC Utrecht, ADO Den Haag and PSV earlier failing to people successful the decision to Fortuna.

While Thom van Bergen neither scored nor assisted successful the loss, the attacking midfielder's 4 nonstop involvements marque him a menace to Twente.

The Tukkers, for their part, tin trust connected Sondre Orjasaeter's creativity for a dependable proviso of chances, with the wide attacker already assisting 2 goals this term.

Wout Weghorst is expected to pb the line, caller disconnected scoring successful consecutive games for the archetypal clip since joining the Reds, and helium seeks to find the nett for 3 matches running.

On the wounded front, determination are nary confirmed absentees for the Tukkers, adjacent if the visitors volition measure Kristian Hlynsson (knock) and Stav Lemkin earlier Sunday's sojourn to Euroborg.

Groningen imaginable starting lineup:

Vaessen;  Schreuders, Blokzijl, Csinger, Prins; Land, De Jonge; Van der Werff, Van Bergen, Clement; Willumsson

FC Twente imaginable starting lineup:

Unnerstall; Van Rooij, Propper, Nijstad, Adelgaard; Zerrouki, Weidmann; Orjasaeter, Taha, Pjaca; Weghorst

We say: Groningen 1-2 FC Twente

Although Groningen person shown attacking intent aboriginal successful the season, their leaky defence and a mounting wounded database could permission them exposed to a assured Twente side.

With Weghorst and Orjasaeter firing connected each cylinders aft their awesome European exploits, the Tukkers should person capable final-third prime to unafraid each 3 points astatine Euroborg. 

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