Week 20 brings us a match on Jan 23rd where Heracles and Go Ahead Eagles will play a match in Almelo in a clash of these two evenly matched Eredivisie teams. 12th placed Heracles is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against NEC. Neither NEC nor Heracles could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 12 and 13 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Heracles looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10, while go Ahead Eagles sits at 11th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-0 shutout win against SC Heerenveen. Íñigo Córdoba scored the first goal for Go Ahead Eagles in the 15th minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, SC Heerenveen couldn’t muster any offence and Go Ahead Eagles ran away with the shutout win. Go Ahead Eagles is looking for direction having 3 win and 5 losses in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, in De Adelaarshorst, Go Ahead Eagles won by a score of 4 to 2. Luuk Brouwers struck first for Go Ahead Eagles in the 29th minute, then Rai Vloet tied it up for Heracles in the 43rd minute , but luckily for Go Ahead Eagles it didn’t end there. They were able to keep scoring to earn the win.
Go Ahead Eagles’s most prolific scorer has been Isac Lidberg. The Swedish attacker has netted 2 goals over the last five matches. Both Nikolai Laursen and Bilal Başaçıkoğlu have been the hottest scorers for Heracles in the last five each having scored 2 goals each
Kasper Lunding, Delano Burgzorg and Marco Rente are unavailable to play for Frank Wormuth’s team, while Go Ahead Eagles will be without Berden, Sam Crowther, Ioannis Foivos Botos and Cuco Martina.