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Heracles vs Sparta Rotterdam Prediction & Betting tips
Heracles Almelo will host Sparta Rotterdam on Thursday evening at the Polman Stadium. The Heracemen got their pants from AZ last weekend and the men from John Stegeman want to recover in their own Polman Stadium after that defeat in Alkmaar.
Heracles :
At Heracles Almelo they were dried up on Saturday-evening by AZ Alkmaar in the AFAS Stadium: 5-0. The Almeloans went a week earlier with 3-1 the ship on a visit to Willem II and in Alkmaar got Heracles so again a lot of adversities to the ears. It was striking that Heracles had to hit three goals against Willem II within fifteen minutes and in Alkmaar goalkeeper Bram Castro also had to fish four times in fifteen minutes. The Belgian Castro did not look too good in Alkmaar anyway and led the 1-0 after 55 minutes and the Heracles goalkeeper did not go free in the 75th minute at the 2-0 of Guus Til.
Last Tuesday we saw at NAC Breda against FC Twente that the level of the goalkeepers in the Eredivisie is generally not very high, but Castro is generally a pretty decent keeper in the Eredivisie. Although Castro was responsible for the first two goals of AZ, Heracles coach John Stegeman did protect his goalkeeper after the match: ‘Bram is important to us, he often drags us through. That own goal was awkward, he knows that too. But mistakes also precede it. ‘
For Heracles there is luckily a home game on Thursday night in the own Polman Stadium on the program and the Heracdians must have this season anyway of the races on their own artificial grass; 94% of all points this season took Heracles in their own Polman Stadium. Stegeman will have to fight against Sparta in defense, as Lerin Duarte and Dario van den Buijs attacked AZ with an injury. The 27-year-old Duarte and 22-year-old Van den Buijs now join the injured defenders Jeff Hardeveld, Robin Pröpper, Wout Droste and Bart van Hintum.
Sparta Rotterdam :
It has been a while for Sparta that they have been in action for the last time. The Spartans played their last game in the league on December 3 and Alex Pastoor then saw his team lose 1-0 vs. PSV. In Eindhoven, PSV got a few chances to pass Roy Kortsmit at the start of the game, but Sparta managed to stand 52 minutes in the Philips Stadium and the Spartans managed to limit the damage with a 1-0 loss. at the leader. Actually, the Kasteelheren would take on last Sunday in their own stadium against Vitesse, but that game was canceled because of the bad weather and on Tuesday, January 16, both teams will make an attempt to play the game again.
So there is not much more to say about the Castle Lords compared to the preview of last weekend between Sparta and Vitesse. On Monday it became known that Sparta over the past year a profit of more than 1.9 million euros booked and that of course has to do with the fact that the Spartans since last season again active at the highest level. It remains to be seen whether Sparta would still be active in the Eredivisie next season, as the Spartans are under the nacompetition streak and at the time of writing have only one point more than the last team Roda JC. On the other hand, Sparta has only played fourteen pots so far, but I do not see Sparta winning the duel with Vitesse.
Heracles vs Sparta Rotterdam head to head matches
18.03.17 ERE Sparta Rotterdam Heracles 3 : 1
15.12.16 KNV Heracles Sparta Rotterdam 0 : 3
29.10.16 ERE Heracles Sparta Rotterdam 2 : 2
31.10.12 KNV Heracles Sparta Rotterdam 2 : 0
10.04.10 ERE Sparta Rotterdam Heracles 1 : 1