Excelsior — Groningen 1:5, 11 October: match result

match finished Eredivisie · Matchday 8 Sunday 11 October · 14:45 UTC

Excelsior 10th · 11 pts LLLLL

1 : 5 1st half 1:2

Groningen 6th · 14 pts LDLWW

Stadion Woudestein · referee R. Martens

Match predictionBold

Someone will win

84% · Excelsior are winless in 5 games

Prediction landed. We predicted “Someone will win”, and the match finished 1:5.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Excelsior 27% draw 22% Groningen 51%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Groningen win, and the match finished 1:5. Fans backed Groningen win — they got it right.

fans 55 votes

Excelsior 30% draw 11% Groningen 59%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

M. Rente 0-1 7'

D. van der Werff 20'

I. Yegoian penalty 1-1 36'

S. van Gassel own goal 1-2 38'

T. van Bergen penalty 1-3 64'

K. Bos for S. Janssen 65'

M. Dominguez for D. Garden 65'

D. van Vianen for A. Thorsteinsson 65'

V. Sulzbacher for E. da Silva Moreira 65'

B. Willumsson assist: P. Clement 1-4 67'

T. Land for J. Ondrejka 67'

M. Csinger for H. Hateboer 72'

T. Land 81'

A. Jahanbakhsh for A. Sliti 81'

N. Eggens for B. Willumsson 84'

R. Metu for T. van Bergen 85'

O. Zawada for D. van der Werff 85'

M. Rente 1-5 90+5'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Excelsior 4-3-3 4-2-3-1 Groningen

Stijn van Gassel  
Eric da Silva Moreira  4 Casper Widell  14 Jan Plug  15 Simon Janssen  
Irakli Yegoian  3 Rick Meissen  20 Lennard Hartjes  
Aymen Sliti  19 David Garden  30 Ágúst Orri Thorsteinsson  

Brynjólfur Darri Willumsson  
David van der Werff  26 Thom van Bergen  11 Jacob Ondrejka  
Tika de Jonge  24 Pelle Clement  
Jorg Schreuders  3 Thijmen Blokzijl  5 Marco Rente  33 Hans Hateboer  
Etienne Vaessen  

Excelsior bench

11Alireza Jahanbakhsh
16Celton Biai
6Daniel van Vianen
24Giuliano Cairo
21Ilano Silva Timas
12Kasey Bos
9Mario Domínguez
28Nesto Groen
22Osman Turay
18Valentin Sulzbacher

Groningen bench

16Alvin Nordin
53Jahelille Hall
42Jesper Mosselaar
13Lovro Štubljar
4Márk Csinger
20Nils Eggens
19Oskar Zawada
30Pelle Boevink
34Ryan Metu
18Tygo Land
2Wouter Prins

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

49%Possession51%

16Shots14

2Shots on target9

6Shots off target1

8Blocked shots4

11Shots inside box13

5Shots outside box1

117Attacks88

45Dangerous attacks30

3Corners6

1Offsides1

10Fouls11

0Yellow cards2

5Saves1

417Passes446

343Accurate passes364

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

1Penalties1

Excelsior

GroningenThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Excelsior and Groningen met on matchday 8 of the Eredivisie on 11 October at Stadion Woudestein. Final score — 1:5.

Excelsior sit 10th on 11 points after 9 matches (1 win, 2 draws, 6 losses), winless in 8 matches. Groningen sit 6th on 14 points after 7 matches (2 wins, 3 draws, 2 losses), winless in 3 matches.