In this week 3 match on Aug 20th, SC Heerenveen and Vitesse will play a match in Arnhem in a meeting of these two Eredivisie teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 20 degrees, a perfect day for football. In their last match, 17th placed Vitesse, recorded a 1-3 loss against Excelsior. Reda Kharchouch scored the first goal for Excelsior in the 14th minute, then Reda Kharchouch added another in the 20th minute on a feed from Marouan Azarkan. Vitesse looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 2 of their last 10, while sC Heerenveen sits at 10th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Feyenoord. Neither Feyenoord nor SC Heerenveen could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 19 and 8 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. SC Heerenveen looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 0 of their last 10.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 1 win apiece.
Both A. Sarr and Joost van Aken have been the hottest scorers for SC Heerenveen in the last five each having scored 2 goals each. Vitesse is glad to have Nikolai Frederiksen in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored 4 goals.