Our prediction for this Netherlands Eredivisie match:
Sittard
Match Time & Date:
02/04/2023
16:45
Prediction: 1-1
Groningen
Sunday’s football game between Fortuna Sittard and Groningen will bring down the curtain on the Eredivisie round 27. Fortuna Sittard aim to make amends for back-to-back losses to Twente and Volendam, but this game will be anything but a walk in the park for Julio Velazquez’s troops. Midfielder Oguzhan Ozyakup is a major doubt, and he will be assessed ahead of the kick-off, while there are no fresh injury worries in the home team.
The Pride of the North, on the other hand, are desperate to escape the relegation zone, but given their dreadful losing run on the road, we do not believe that Dennis van der Ree’s charges are capable of picking up more than one point from Sunday’s showdown. As for the away side, both Florian Kruger and Paulos Abraham remain on the sidelines with injuries, while midfielder Daleho Irandust is a major doubt.
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 (Groningen):
Groningen is a Dutch football clubs that competes in the Eredivisie. Founded on June 16, 1971, Groningen play home games at Euroborg. The venue was built by Ballas Nedam, Royal BAM Group and VolkerWessels, and it can hold up to 22,525 people.
The Trots van het Noorden (Pride of the North) are well known for their white home shirts with red stripes, while purple is the dominant colour of their away kit. Volendam are considered the club’s fiercest rivals, but they have a rivalry with Twente as well after the 1980s incidents between their fans. Groningen have yet to win the Eredivisie trophy, but they did well to go all the way in the Dutch Cup in the 2014/15 season.
The green and whites defeated Zwolle 2-0 in the title game. Speaking of their European success, it has to be noted that Groningen participated in the Europa League on two occasions. In the 2015/16 season the Trots van het Noorden booked their place in the group stages of the competition, but they failed to record a win in the process.
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