Our prediction for this Netherlands Eredivisie match:
Sittard
Match Time & Date:
15/10/2022
18:45
Prediction: 2-1
Waalwijk
Fortuna Sittard have been making progress week by week and will try to give fans yet another reason for celebration when they face RKC Waalwijk on Saturday evening. Since a triumph over RKC Waalwjik should see them move closer to the playoff position in the standings, we are positive that the hosts will adopt an attack-minded approach this time out. Deroy Duarte misses out through a knee injury.
Joseph Oosting’s men, on the other hand, have been in fine form in recent weeks, and as a result, they collected seven points in total from the last three league games. Mika Biereth, who came from the bench and scored a brace against Groningen, is widely expected to return to the starting XI. Sjors Ultee’s troops have won three of their last three encounters with RKC, and, taking everything into account, we predict that the hosts will pick up all three points from Saturday’s showdown. There are no fresh injury worries for the visiting team.
Highlighted Player (Oguzhan Ozyakup):
The 23-year-old Netherlands-born Turkish international Oguzhan Ozyakup is a midfielder who started his professional career at Premier League giants Arsenal. Ozyakup arrived to the London-based club as a schoolboy from AZ and went through Arsenal academy, before making his competitive debut in a League Cup match against Shrewsbury Town, when he supplied the assist for Yossi Benayoun in a 3-1 victory.
The Turkish international however failed to break into the first-team and was transferred to Besiktas in 2012. Turkey international has passed the 100-match mark for his club in 2016 and is considered one of the more experienced and most valuable players of the club, despite he is only 23 years of age.
The talented midfielder was subject of intense transfer speculation during the 2016 summer transfer window with Valencia reportedly expressing interest in signing the Turkish footballer, but Ozyakup remained at Besiktas and went on to extend his contract, which will keep him at the Vodafone Arena until 2018.
Highlighted Team (Waalwijk):
RKC Waalwijk is a Dutch club that competes in the Eredivisie. RKC returned to the Dutch top flight in the 2019/20 season, and they were more than fortunate not to suffer relegation back to Eerste Divisie. Fred Grim’s men were stuck at the bottom of the table when the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As a result, they did not drop to the Dutch second tier. RKC play home games at Mandemakers Stadion, the venue which can hold only 7,500 spectators. RKC Waalwijk are well known for their yellow shirts with blue strips, but their away kit is mainly black. The Mandemakers Stadion outfit have never won the national championship.
RKC, though, represented the Netherlands in European competitions in the past, with team taking part in Intertoto Cup on four occasions. Willem II are seen as one of the club’s main rivals, with the two teams facing each other in the Brabantse derby.
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