PEC Zwolle vs Go Ahead Eagles - prediction, team news, lineups

Desperate to ascent retired of the Eredivisie driblet zone, PEC Zwolle invited section rivals Go Ahead Eagles to the Mac3Park Stadion connected Sunday successful gameweek nine.

The visitors, meanwhile, caput to Zwolle aiming to reignite their European ambitions aft 4 consecutive draws person stalled their momentum.

Match preview

After suffering back-to-back defeats by a combined people of 10-0, PEC Zwolle viewed past weekend’s location clash with recently promoted Cambuur arsenic a aureate accidental to get backmost connected track. Instead, their run deed a caller debased with a 1-0 defeat.

No Eredivisie squad has mislaid much matches than De Blauwvingers, who person the the league’s weakest onslaught with conscionable six goals. Meanwhile, lone Utrecht and Willem II person conceded much than their 21 goals allowed.

To beryllium just to Henry van der Vegt, a pugnacious aboriginal docket - featuring six of past season’s apical 10 - has not helped, but that was not capable to prevention the 54-year-old, who became the archetypal managerial casualty of the 2026-27 Eredivisie campaign.

Zwolle person approached erstwhile Manchester United adjunct and Dutch manager Rene Hake astir the vacancy, but nary assignment is expected earlier the weekend. As a result, existent adjunct Dennis van der Ree is acceptable to oversee the derby.

Van der Ree volition beryllium hoping to extremity a miserable tally against Go Ahead Eagles: Zwolle are winless successful 8 meetings since 2017 and person mislaid the past 2 clashes, astir precocious a 5-0 thrashing successful April.

With wins implicit Willem II and ADO Den Haag, positive a commendable 2-2 gully with Feyenoord, Go Ahead Eagles collected 7 points from their opening 3 matchdays, their champion commencement since returning to the apical formation 5 years ago. However, subsequents results person been underwhelming.

Joseph Oosting’s men suffered their archetypal decision of 2026-27 successful a 5-2 nonaccomplishment to AZ Alkmaar astatine the extremity of August, and person since drawn 4 consecutive - astir precocious an entertaining 3-3 with Sparta Rotterdam - leaving them winless successful 5 outings.

Having fto successful precocious goals en way to 2 of the 4 aforementioned stalemates, the Pride of the IJssel Kowet person been consistently punished for their vulnerability successful the last 15 minutes of matches - conceding conscionable nether a 3rd of their 17 goals successful that play this season.

One of six Eredivisie teams yet to support a cleanable sheet, Go Ahead Eagles volition backmost themselves to extremity that drought against opponents who failed to people successful some of past season’s league meetings and person drawn blanks successful 3 consecutive matches up of this weekend.

Like Sunday’s hosts, the visitors person besides conceded archetypal successful 4 of their past 5 matches, truthful aboriginal dominance could beryllium cardinal to determining which mode the contention swings.

PEC Zwolle Eredivisie form:

Go Ahead Eagles Eredivisie form:

Team News

Zwolle’s Filip Krastev remains sidelined with an Achilles tendon wounded sustained portion connected indebtedness astatine Goztepe past season.

Younes Namli is besides unavailable for the hosts, having not featured since suffering a genu wounded successful April.

Ryan Thomas started connected his instrumentality to enactment against Cambuur and is expected to support his spot successful the XI.

Pim Saathof remains retired with a genu wounded and is 1 of 2 wounded concerns for Go Ahead Eagles, alongside Julius Dirksen, who missed the Sparta draw.

Following his extremity past clip out, Soren Tengstedt present has 8 nonstop extremity contributions - six goals and 2 assists - successful his past 8 matches, making the Dane 1 to watch.

PEC Zwolle imaginable starting lineup:

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

Go Ahead Eagles imaginable starting lineup:

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

We say: PEC Zwolle 1-2 Go Ahead Eagles

A leaky defence combined with a misfiring onslaught is simply a calamitous combination, and Zwolle person issues astatine some ends of the transportation to code if they are to spark a turnaround.

While Go Ahead person not been astatine their best, we extremity the visitors to permission Sunday’s derby with each 3 points.

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