Telstar vs Heracles - prediction, team news, lineups

Telstar volition invited already relegated Heracles Almelo to the BUKO Stadion connected Sunday during the penultimate play of the Eredivisie season.

Although some sides person endured hard campaigns, the ambiance surrounding the 2 clubs is vastly different, with Telstar inactive warring for endurance arsenic they stay supra the relegation portion lone connected extremity difference.

Match preview

Telstar stay locked adjacent the bottommost of the Eredivisie table, but determination person astatine slightest been encouraging signs of absorption successful Velsen-Zuid, with Anthony Correia’s broadside showing greater attacking intent successful caller weeks and arriving for this fixture aft earning a respectable draw distant astatine NEC Nijmegen.

The White Lions person scored 9 goals crossed their past six league matches, portion the originative power of Jeff Hardeveld has go progressively important during the closing agelong of the campaign.

Correia’s men arguably produced their astir awesome show of the play past Wednesday erstwhile they thrashed Sparta Rotterdam 4-1, securing lone their seventh Eredivisie triumph of the campaign, with 4 of those wins coming since the crook of the year.

Last weekend’s 2-2 gully astatine NEC ensured Telstar maintained a six-point cushion implicit 17th-placed NAC Breda, leaving them each but definite to debar automatic relegation to the Eerste Divisie, though sitting level connected points with Volendam means they indispensable inactive navigate the relegation playoffs to sphere their top-flight status.

Although their wide location signifier has remained inconsistent, caller improvements astatine BUKO Stadion person helped make breathing abstraction supra the relegation zone, with Correia’s broadside winning 2 of their past 3 location league matches.

Historically, however, this fixture has not favoured Telstar, who stay without a location triumph implicit Heracles Almelo successful Eredivisie competition, portion the reverse gathering earlier this play ended successful a draw.

Heracles Almelo get carrying the disappointment of confirmed relegation aft past weekend’s decision to PEC Zwolle mathematically ended their enactment successful the Eredivisie pursuing a play dominated by antiaircraft instability, disciplinary problems and a persistent inability to cod points distant from home.

The statistic underline the standard of the visitors’ struggles, with Heracles losing much matches than immoderate different broadside successful the Eredivisie this play portion besides possessing 1 of the league’s weakest distant records aft conceding astir 3 goals per crippled connected the road.

Confidence has visibly drained from Ernest Faber’s broadside during a tally of 4 consecutive defeats, though the nine volition anticipation to respond rapidly aft antecedently securing promotion backmost to the Eredivisie astatine the archetypal effort pursuing relegation successful 2022.

Defensive frailties person continued to specify their season, with Heracles conceding 80 league goals truthful far, astatine slightest 14 much than PEC Zwolle, who themselves person allowed 66 goals this campaign.

With relegation already confirmed and small near to play for, Heracles whitethorn present attack the last matches with greater freedom, though their attacking struggles stay a interest aft failing to people successful each of their past 3 outings.

Telstar Eredivisie form:

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Heracles Eredivisie form:

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Team News

Telstar suffered 2 caller wounded concerns during past weekend’s hard-fought gully astatine NEC Nijmegen, with midfielder Tyrone Owusu forced disconnected aft 52 minutes portion Tyrese Noslin was besides substituted during the 2nd fractional due to the fact that of a suspected wounded problem.

Nokkvi Thorisson has not featured for Telstar since aboriginal April, and the club’s aesculapian unit proceed to measure the Icelandic winger up of the last 2 matches of the season.

Heracles, meanwhile, person been weakened further by the suspensions of Sem Scheperman and Alec Van Hoorenbeeck, removing further antiaircraft stableness from an already fragile backmost line.

Fabian de Keijzer remains sidelined with a hep wounded alongside Mike te Wierik, who is unavailable due to the fact that of an ankle problem, portion De Keijzer has not featured since January.

Telstar imaginable starting lineup:

Koeman; Nwankwo, Koswal, Bakker; Seedorf, Offerhaus, Hatenboer, Hardeveld; Hetli, Brouwer, Van Duijn

Heracles imaginable starting lineup:

Jansink; Kust, Cestic, Mirani, Benita; Zamburek, Ahlstrand; Gilst, Ould-Chikh, Engels; Kulenovic

We say: Telstar 1-0 Heracles

Although Telstar person historically struggled successful this fixture and stay without a location triumph implicit Heracles successful Eredivisie competition, existent momentum powerfully favours the hosts heading into Sunday’s encounter.

Heracles get burdened by the disappointment of confirmed relegation pursuing past weekend’s decision to PEC Zwolle, and considering their consistently mediocre performances passim the season, it is hard to spot the visitors producing capable prime to permission BUKO Stadion with a affirmative result.

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