📏 Form Guide

Telstar

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Telstar will play in this game after a 1-1 Eredivisie stalemate against NEC.

In that match, Telstar had 30% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Telstar was Sem van Duijn (32'). NEC Nijmegen got 21 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Tjaronn Chery (85') scored for NEC.

Fixtures featuring Telstar have often been lively encounters lately with high scoring being the norm. Over their past 6 games, a total of 21 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 9 of those being chalked up by Telstar. We will find out if that trend can be sustained in this game.

Coming into this meeting, Telstar have not won against Heracles Almelo in their last 6 league games.

Heracles Almelo

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Since tasting defeat last time out to FC Zwolle in Eredivisie action, Heracles Almelo will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Heracles Almelo had 55% possession and 14 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. On the other side, PEC Zwolle got 9 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Anselmo García MacNulty (19') scored for FC Zwolle.

It is worth noting that Heracles Almelo have been starved of goals over their previous 6 games, contributing the unsatisfactory return of just 2. In those matches, Heraclieden have also seen the overall goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 15.

Leading up to this clash, Heracles Almelo:

• haven't been defeated by Telstar in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• are without a win away from home in their last 9 matches in the league. Very poor, indeed.

👥 Head to head

Delving into their past head to head results going back to 13/08/2004 shows that these fixtures have been pretty painful for Telstar. They’ve not been able to get themselves any victories whatsoever while Heracles Almelo have just been too good for them, getting wins in 67 per cent of those matches played.

20 goals were produced between them in these games, with 3 from Witte Leeuwen and 17 created by Heraclieden. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.33.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Eredivisie match day 15 on 06/12/2025 when the final score was Heracles Almelo 1-1 Telstar.

In that match, Heracles Almelo had 46% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Their only player to score was Ivan Mesík (93').

On the other side, Telstar got 11 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Milan Zonneveld (67') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Danny Makkelie.

📰 Team News: Telstar

It looks as if Witte Leeuwen will possibly use the 3-4-2-1 formation in the match, beginning the first half with Ronald Koeman Jr., N. Ogidi Nwankwo, Devon Koswal, Danny Bakker, Tyrese Noslin, Guus Offerhaus, Cedric Hatenboer, Jeff Hardeveld, Tyrone Owusu, Patrick Brouwer and Sem van Duijn.

📰 Team News: Heracles Almelo

We’re of the thinking that Heraclieden will likely begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, choosing Timo Jansink, Mimeirhel Benita, Damon Mirani, Tarik Hamamioglu, D. van der, Jan Zamburek, Sava Cestic, Tristan van Gilst, Jannes Wieckhoff, Mario Engels and Luka Kulenovic.

💡 Prediction

In this game, Heracles Almelo will manage to break down this Telstar side, but that is unlikely to be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re tipping a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning margin for Telstar at the end of this one. It’s a very tough call.

Lucas Pereira, 07:03 06/05/2026