Fortuna Sittard vs Excelsior Prediction & Betting Tips

Recent Form

Fortuna Sittard's last 20 matches make for a bumpy read: nine wins, two draws and nine losses, with a heavy 1-5 home defeat to Ajax and a 0-2 loss to AZ Alkmaar sitting alongside away wins at ADO Den Haag and Groningen. It's a stop-start pattern rather than any clear momentum.

Fortuna Sittard: 20 completed matches; Excelsior: 20 completed matches.

Fortuna Sittard

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

10% 2 / 20

Loss

45% 9 / 20

Scored

29

Conceded

36

Difference

-7

Excelsior

20 matches

Win

55% 11 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

20% 4 / 20

Scored

49

Conceded

28

Difference

+21

Excelsior's equivalent sample looks sturdier on the surface, with 11 wins, five draws and just four losses, and 49 goals scored across those 20 games. Their recent Eredivisie form shows draws at Ajax and NEC Nijmegen either side of home and away wins over Sparta Rotterdam and Willem II.

Both samples mix league games with earlier friendlies, so the pure Eredivisie picture is narrower than the raw numbers suggest.

Comparative Team Statistics: Fortuna Sittard vs Excelsior

Head-to-Head

These two have met eight times in the Eredivisie stretching back to 2018, and the recent trend favours Fortuna Sittard. They won the last two meetings, including a 2-1 home success back in February. Go back further and Excelsior have had the better of it too, including a 5-2 and a 3-0 win in among the results.

It's not a one-sided rivalry over the full record, just a home side with the upper hand in the most recent instalments.

Recent head-to-head form leans towards Fortuna Sittard, though it's a small sample and older results say little about the current squads.

League Standings

After seven matches apiece, Fortuna Sittard sit sixth on 13 points, just one place and two points above Excelsior in seventh. The gap in the table is marginal.

Excelsior's goal difference tells a different story though, sitting at plus six compared to Fortuna Sittard's minus one, despite having fewer points on the board.

Players to Watch

Fortuna Sittard's M. Ihattaren and Excelsior's A. Sliti have both scored three goals in seven appearances, making them the joint top scorers between these two squads this season. Excelsior's I. Yegoian has been the busier creator of the two sides, racking up five assists in the same span.

Fortuna Sittard:

Best scorers:

M. Ihattaren - 3

Best assist providers:

M. Ihattaren - 2

Penalty cards:

O. Romeny x 1

L. Zeefuik x 3

Justin Quincy Hubner x 2

Excelsior:

Best scorers:

A. Sliti - 3

Best assist providers:

I. Yegoian - 5

S. Janssen - 3

Penalty cards:

J. Plug x 2

On the disciplinary side, Fortuna Sittard's O. Romeny has already picked up a red card in five matches this season, though with a month still to run before this fixture, it's not something we can call a certainty either way for team selection.