Feyenoord will play against Go Ahead Eagles on Sunday in the same formation as last Thursday during the match against IF Elfsborg in the Conference League. Trainer Arne Slot opts for the same basic forces that ended the duel with the Swedes in a 5-0 victory. The duel with the PhD student from Deventer will start at 2.30 pm.
That means that Bryan Linssen is again in the striker at Feyenoord. Linssen is originally a left winger, but Slot has been preferring the former Vitesse player to real strikers like Róbert Bozeník and Naoufal Bannis in the point of attack for several weeks. Feyenoord is still looking for a new striker and hopes to strike in the final phase of the summer transfer market.
Feyenoord is still unbeaten after six matches in all competitions. Slot’s team won four of the five matches in the Conference League: only the match against FC Drita ended in a 0-0 draw. The season overture against Willem II was won 0-4 last week.
Statistics Feyenoord and Go Ahead Eagles
In the seven of the last nine Eredivisie-games between Feyenoord and Go Ahead, at least one of the two teams failed to score, including the last five. Feyenoord won in that period 5-0, 4-0 and 8-0; Go Ahead won 1-0 twice. The club from Rotterdam has an excellent series in the Eredivisie against promoted teams: five victories and a draw in the last six matches, with a goal average of 3.7 (22 goals in total.
Feyenoord won the last two Eredivisie matches without conceding a goal, 2-0 against FC Utrecht and 0-4 against Willem II, and can book three consecutive victories in the competition for the first time this calendar year. Feyenoord have only won four of the last nine first home games of a new Eredivisie season, in addition to four draws and a defeat. The last two times such a duel ended in a draw (2-2 against Sparta Rotterdam in 2019/20 and 1-1 against FC Twente in 2020/21).
Go Ahead has kept a clean sheet in seven of their last nine games in all competitions. The Deventer club took the last clean sheet outside the Eredivisie when visiting Feyenoord in April 2015, when Jules Reimerink ensured a 0-1 victory in South Rotterdam.
Line-up Feyenoord: Bijlow; Pedersen, Trauner, Senesi, Malacia; Toornstra, Kökcu, Til; Jahanbakhsh, Linssen and Sinisterra.