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

NEC Nijmegen big Go Ahead Eagles astatine the Goffertstadion successful Nijmegen connected Sunday successful circular 7 of the Eredivisie.

Dick Schreuder's broadside beryllium 10th successful the Eredivisie table with 7 points from their opening six matches and person shipped 8 goals without reply successful their past 2 outings, portion Joseph Oosting's Go Ahead Eagles get successful ninth connected 9 points disconnected the backmost of back-to-back draws.

Match preview

NEC get astatine this fixture having mislaid 3-0 distant to Cambuur successful their erstwhile league outing, with Ilyes Hamache scoring either broadside of half-time earlier Iwan Henstra added a stoppage-time third.

That effect was followed by a 5-0 Europa League decision astatine Juventus, a crippled successful which NEC completed 497 passes astatine 91% accuracy yet managed conscionable 2 shots connected people from 11 attempts.

The signifier crossed some matches was the same: a precocious antiaircraft enactment repeatedly exposed successful behind, and a guardant enactment incapable to person its stock of the shot into goals.

NEC person not scored successful their past 2 matches, a tally that has coincided with a fittingness question implicit winger Clement Bischoff, antecedently 1 of the side's much productive originative outlets.

Tjaronn Chery, the nine captain, remains NEC's apical scorer with 3 goals successful the league, and NEC person been awarded 2 penalties this season, much than immoderate different broadside successful the division.

Dick Schreuder's broadside reached the Champions League qualifying rounds implicit the summer, and the resulting fixture pile-up has near a squad abbreviated connected extent arsenic September wears on.

Go Ahead Eagles were held 1-1 astatine location by Groningen past clip out, a crippled successful which they delivered 35 crosses and yet equalised done Soren Tengstedt successful the 82nd minute.

Stefan Sigurdarson past spurned a wide accidental to triumph that lucifer precocious on, a miss that summed up a wider inclination of Go Ahead Eagles creating heavy but not ever converting.

Before that draw, Oosting's broadside shared six goals successful a 3-3 gully astatine FC Utrecht and shipped 5 successful a 5-2 decision astatine AZ Alkmaar, either broadside of a 3-1 location triumph implicit ADO Den Haag.

Tengstedt is the division's outright starring scorer with 5 goals and 2 assists, and his question from the close into cardinal areas has repeatedly caused problems for absorption backmost lines.

Victor Edvardsen created 7 chances successful the gully with Groningen alone, underlining his relation arsenic the nexus betwixt Go Ahead Eagles' midfield and their beforehand line.

Go Ahead Eagles person conceded 13 goals successful six matches, truthful for each their attacking momentum, Oosting's broadside person needed to simply outscore opponents alternatively than unopen them out.

Captain Joris Kramer anchors the backmost 4 successful beforehand of Kjetil Haug, and his organisation from heavy has go an progressively important outlet arsenic Go Ahead Eagles look to play done unit alternatively than astir it.

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Team News

Emre Mor is retired with a groin wounded and is not expected to instrumentality until mid-October, portion Deveron Fonville remains sidelined with an ankle occupation until aboriginal October.

Ahmetcan Kaplan is simply a uncertainty with a genu contented that has him rated day-to-day, and pre-match reports besides database Clement Bischoff arsenic a fittingness interest pursuing the travel to Turin, though that has not been confirmed done authoritative NEC channels astatine the clip of writing.

For the visitors, Oosting volition again beryllium without Gerrit Nauber, who continues to negociate a limb wounded connected a day-to-day basis.

Pim Saathof remains sidelined with a genu problem, but Oosting different has a settled radical of players disposable to prime from.

NEC imaginable starting lineup:

Polster; Kabar, Storm, Sandler; Tahaui, Geiger, Nejasmic, Thomas; Chery, Tadic; Sierhuis

Go Ahead Eagles imaginable starting lineup:

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

We say: NEC 1-2 Go Ahead Eagles

NEC person shown capable going guardant done Chery and Tadic to occupation astir Eredivisie backmost lines, but conceding 8 without reply successful 2 matches suggests a antiaircraft hole volition not get by Sunday.

Go Ahead Eagles person not managed a cleanable expanse successful six league games either, truthful an unfastened contention looks the likeliest outcome, though Tengstedt's grounds of 5 goals and 2 assists gives the visitors the sharper cutting edge.

Home vantage and NEC's ain attacking pedigree should beryllium capable for a extremity from Chery oregon Tadic, but Go Ahead Eagles' greater consistency successful beforehand of extremity is the quality successful a tight, high-scoring finish.

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