Feyenoord picks up the thread in the Eredivisie with a home game against Sparta Rotterdam. Dick Advocaat’s team entered the international match period with a good feeling; a 1-4 victory on a visit to Willem II took the lead. Two weeks ago, opponent Sparta was heading for a hard defeat at home when it faced a 0-4 deficit after 45 minutes of play. In an unparalleled second half, Henk Fraser’s team fought back to a 4-4 tie, taking the first point of the season. Opta considers ahead of the match between Feyenoord and Sparta, on Sunday from 12.15 in De Kuip.

o Feyenoord managed to win only five of the last ten Eredivisie matches with Sparta: one draw, four losses.

o Feyenoord scored 251 times against fellow city rivals Sparta in the Eredivisie, at least 26 goals more than against any other opponent that the Kuip residents met in the Eredivisie.

o Feyenoord scored four times in each of the last two league matches, the last time the team from Rotterdam scored at least four times in three consecutive Eredivisie matches was in April 2005.

Feyenoord has to do without the injured Nicolai Jörgensen and Robert Bozeník on Sunday

o Feyenoord received a penalty kick for the first time since 2009 in four consecutive Eredivisie duels in-house (five in total), the last team to receive a penalty in more home games in a row was Ajax in 1984 (five in a row).

o Steven Berghuis scored in his last five league matches, the last Feyenoord player to find the net in more consecutive Eredivisie matches was Graziano Pellè in April 2013 (then 9 in a row).

o Robert Bozeník recorded 22 shots for Feyenoord in 500 playing minutes in all competitions this calendar year (7 on goal, 3 hits), in that period only Berghuis made more goal attempts for the Rotterdam team (50 in 1255 minutes).

o Sparta is without a win in the last five Eredivisie matches (one draw, four losses), the longest series for the Spangenaren since 2017/18 when the team remained ten consecutive Eredivisie duels without a victory (two draws, eight losses ; including three defeats under Attorney).

o Five of Sparta’s last seven league goals fell after the eightieth minute, this calendar year no Eredivisie team scored more hits in the last ten minutes of play than Sparta (six, just like PSV and FC Utrecht).

o Lennart Thy scored twice in his most recent Eredivisie game with Feyenoord and was directly involved in more goals against only three teams than against the Kuip residents (3: 2 goals & 1 assist).

o Fraser took on Lawyer in the Eredivisie twice before as a trainer and won both times, with ADO against AZ (2-1 in April 2014) and with Vitesse visiting Sparta (0-1 in January 2018).