In this week 16 match on the 15th of January, FC Groningen and Feyenoord will play a match in Groningen in a meeting of these two Eredivisie teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 5 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. FC Groningen sits at 15th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-1 loss against Excelsior. El Yaakoubi struck first for Excelsior in the 69th minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed FC Groningen couldn’t manage to score, and Excelsior took the shutout win. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 7 points in their last 10 matches, while feyenoord is fresh off their 1-1 draw against FC Utrecht. Jens Toornstra struck first for FC Utrecht in the 3rd minute on a feed from Bas Dost, then in the 90th minute, Ezequiel Bullaude sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by Alireza Jahanbakhsh squeezing out at least the one point for Feyenoord. Feyenoord should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 21 points in their last 10 matches.
This match will be the first time these two teams face eachother this season. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 2 draws each.
Sebastian Szymański has been the most prolific scorer on Feyenoord in the last five matches with three goals. Ricardo Pepi has been the most effective weapon for FC Groningen lately. The American attacker has netted 3 goals in his last five matches
Michael Verrips and P. Abraham are unavailable to play for FC Groningen, while Oussama Idrissi, Gernot Trauner and Quinten Timber are unavailable to play for Feyenoord.