PEC Zwolle vs. Feyenoord - prediction, team news, lineups

Without a triumph implicit Feyenoord successful 7 years, PEC Zwolle invited their Rotterdam opponents to MAC³PARK Stadion connected Sunday for matchday six's Eredivisie action.

The visitors caput to Zwolle aft a 5-1 hammering by Barcelona successful the Champions League, but Giovanni van Bronckhorst volition invited a travel to a broadside that De Stadionclub person historically dominated.

Match preview

PEC look the daunting imaginable of a sojourn from Feyenoord this weekend, alert of their inability to muster thing of value successful this fixture for years.

A 3-1 triumph successful 2019 ended a five-match winless series successful their head-to-head, during which they drew two; however, they person endured misery since, suffering 13 consecutive defeats.

Failing to find the nett successful 8 of those contests, the one-sided quality of this fixture leaves Henry van der Vegt scratching his caput arsenic to however a affirmative effect tin beryllium masterminded connected Sunday.

Blauwvingers are not helped by their underwhelming commencement to the 2026-27 season, which has seen them suffer 3 of their 5 matches, with a 2-0 triumph astatine Heerenveen their lone occurrence and a uncommon cleanable expanse — the Zwolle outfit's 3rd of 2026.

That humanities disadvantage and PEC's struggles this play accentuate the magnitude of the situation up this weekend, adjacent if they volition anticipation to drawback Feyenoord connected a atrocious time aft their midweek thrashing successful Europe. 

Van Bronckhorst could bash small connected his instrumentality to a nine helium represented successful his career, arsenic Hansi Flick's Barca ran riot astatine Camp Nou.

Back successful the Eredivisie, the distant broadside purpose to determination connected from that decision arsenic they pursuit their 4th triumph successful six games.

While SBV Excelsior, FC Twente and Fortuna Sittard each beryllium 1 constituent down the Pride of the South, AZ Alkmaar dropping points connected Friday nighttime gives the third-placed Rotterdam outfit the accidental to determination wrong 2 points of archetypal place, hours earlier second-placed PSV Eindhoven big Sparta Rotterdam.

Given that each of Feyenoord's league victories this word person travel distant astatine Sparta (1-0), Cambuur (5-2) and NEC (3-1), the travelling fans volition backmost their broadside to unafraid different occurrence and proceed their dominance of this fixture.

Averaging 3 goals per lucifer successful those distant games so stands Van Bronckhorst's men successful bully stead arsenic they look to get the amended of this weekend's hosts and widen their seven-year unbeaten streak successful this matchup.

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Team News

After failing to people successful 9 Eredivisie matches successful a row, Koen Kostons has present netted for PEC successful 3 consecutive games against Heerenveen, NEC and Sparta, and the guardant aims to find the nett for a 4th lucifer running. 

Dylan Mbayo has moved connected from his unfortunate ain extremity against FC Twente to assistance 2 successful the triumph implicit Heerenveen and adhd different successful past week's 2-2 gully with Sparta, efficaciously making him the location side's secondary in-form threat.

On the wounded front, Younes Namli, Filip Krastev (Achilles) and Jan Burger are apt absentees for the location broadside connected Sunday. 

Van Bronckhorst has respective players absent connected Feyenoord's perennial lengthy database of absentees: Bart Nieuwkoop, Gijs Smal (ankle), Jakub Moder (knee), Thomas Beelen (broken leg) and Jordan Bos (knee), portion Reiss Nelson is improbable to beryllium progressive aft playing conscionable 73 minutes during Arsenal's pre-season earlier moving to Rotterdam.

Without Ayase Ueda, who joined Lille earlier transportation deadline day, the Stadium Club person trusted Nacho Ferri to pb the attack, though Luciano Valente and Zechiel stay the side's ascendant threats for the clip being. 

Zechiel has netted 4 goals and has acceptable up 3 truthful acold this season, portion Valente has scored 3 goals, the second of which came successful past week's 3-1 triumph implicit NEC.

PEC Zwolle imaginable starting lineup:

Schendelaar; Aertssen, Graves, Viergever, Floranus; Thomas, Sommer; Mbayo, Oosting, Cissoko; Kostons

Feyenoord imaginable starting lineup:

Ernst; Read, Watanabe, St Juste, Marmol; Targhalline, Zechiel, Vanhoutte; Diarra, Ferri, Valente

We say: PEC Zwolle 1-3 Feyenoord

While Feyenoord person truthful acold failed to triumph a location lucifer since Van B returned, the Stadium Club person flourished distant from location and volition purpose to widen that beardown start.

Against a broadside they person historically dominated, having won the past 13, the distant supporters should expect a 14th triumph to assistance them clasp 3rd spot successful the league astatine the precise least.

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