Willem II vs Fortuna Sittard - prediction, team news, lineups

Ten places abstracted Willem II and Fortuna Sittard successful the Eredivisie table heading into Saturday's gameweek 7 fixture astatine Koning Willem II Stadion.

The promoted hosts are second-bottom successful the apical formation aft six rounds, portion free-scoring FSC caput into the play seventh and aiming to instrumentality to winning ways aft past week's 5-1 decision by Ajax.

Match preview

John Stegeman astir apt expected the apical formation to beryllium acold from straightforward, and it has proved that mode with Tricolores winless aft six rounds.

Second bottommost successful the table, lone past season's second-tier champions ADO Den Haag connected 1 constituent person a worse grounds successful the Eredivisie, adjacent if some clubs are the lone 2 without wins aft six games.

However, Willem II person the joint-worst defence — statistically astatine slightest — having conceded 19 goals successful six games, the aforesaid arsenic FC Utrecht, but person the worst extremity quality (-13) earlier the seventh round. 

Given their leaky rearguard, which has fto successful 2 oregon much goals successful 5 of their six games this term, Stegeman's troops look an uphill situation against a Fortuna broadside that were connected a good tally of goalscoring signifier earlier past weekend's nonaccomplishment against Ajax. 

If this weekend's results spell to form, with ADO hosting chap promoted broadside Cambuur, past the location fans look the imaginable of their broadside finishing the circular bottommost of the standings.

Fortuna volition anticipation to bash their early-season European aspirations nary harm by clinching their 4th triumph of the campaign. 

Danny Buijs's squad person netted astatine slightest 2 goals successful 4 of their six games this term, with the team's lone defeats coming against joint-top AZ Alkmaar and fourth-placed Ajax, placing the due discourse connected their 2 defeats. 

Aware of their decent-to-good grounds against everyone else, arsenic good arsenic a gratifying opening-day 2-2 gully with PSV Eindhoven, the Sittard-based broadside caput to Tilburg looking to assertion different affirmative result. 

Considering their four-match unbeaten tally successful this fixture — 2 wins, 2 draws — Buijs's broadside volition backmost themselves to widen that series against a broadside they person not conceded to successful 3 meetings. 

Success for the distant broadside could spot them determination level connected 13 points with Ajax and FC Twente and supra SBV Excelsior connected 10 points, though that result depends connected aggregate results going successful their favour.

Willem II Eredivisie form:

Fortuna Sittard Eredivisie form:

Team News

Thomas Didillon-Hodl (hamstring), Vito van Crooij (ankle), Justin Hoogma (knee), Amine Lachkar (groin injury), Armin Culum (foot) and Thijs Muller (toe) are each missing done wounded for Willem II.

Only Devin Haen has scored much than erstwhile for Superkruiken this term, with his 3 goals accounting for 50% of the Tilburg outfit's six strikes, and helium aims to adhd to his tally connected Saturday.

Mohamed Ihattaren and Lequincio Zeefuik person netted 3 apiece for the visitors, portion Anthony Descotte has scored two, highlighting the aggregate threats for the distant side.

Ihattaren is joint-top for assists for Fortuna, mounting up 2 goals aft six rounds, and the attacker's dual menace makes him FSC's starring threat.

Fortuna person a fewer wounded issues, with Kristoffer Peterson, Ivan Marquez, Yassin Oukili (groin), Sven Simons (hamstring) and Siebe Wylin sidelined.

Willem II imaginable starting lineup:

Delanghe; Ter Avest, Stam, Dekker, Tjoe-A-On; Twigt, Vilhena; Van Loon, Van Aalst, Slory; Haen

Fortuna Sittard imaginable starting lineup:

Branderhorst; Pinto, Brittijn, Guth, Hubner, Dahlhaus; Ihattaren, Michut, Zand; Descotte, Zeefuik

We say: Willem II 1-3 Fortuna Sittard

Although Willem II volition beryllium hopeless to connection a effect successful beforehand of their location supporters and ascent distant from the relegation zone, their glaring antiaircraft vulnerabilities suggest a hard evening awaits.

With Ihattaren and Zeefuik firing connected each cylinders successful the last third, Buijs's broadside person much than capable attacking prime to ruthlessly exposure the hosts and assertion each 3 points.

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