Excelsior vs Heracles prediction: NETHERLANDS: Eredivisie betting tips on match 2024-05-11 12:30.
[p]Excelsior Rotterdam faces a crucial assignment at home to Heracles Almelo in the penultimate round of the season. With 26 points, the Rotterdam club is six points behind their opponents from Almelo, but their main focus will be on 15th-placed Waalwijk. The gap to them, and therefore automatic survival, is just two points. The aim will be to take 15th place and avoid participation in the promotion-relegation play-offs.[/p]
[p]The home side began with their final charge on April 12 with a home win over now-relegated FC Volendam and then very surprisingly achieved one point against Ajax in the Johan Cruijff ArenA. But they failed to capitalise on the confidence last Monday, when NEC were too strong for Marinus Dijkhuizen’s team (3-0) in the Van Donge & De Roo Stadium. In the final round there will be a visit to neighbours Feyenoord in De Kuip, so the importance of taking three points from this game is immense.[/p]
[p]Heracles Almelo has made the pointy end of the competition unnecessarily exciting for themselves. After a very impressive 5-0 home win over AZ and fantastic away trip to Sparta Rotterdam, Erwin van de Looi’s team now has 32 points after 29 games. The home games against Heerenveen (L 2-0) and RKC Waalwijk (L 0-5) and loss to direct competitor PEC Zwolle (3-1) in between mean that Heracles is not yet safe in this competition.[/p]
[p]In the final two rounds of this competition, Heracles still have a fourth and even a fifth chance. If there is at least a draw at Excelsior, they’ll win the spoils. If they lose, there is an ultimate chance on the very last matchday to extend their Eredivisie stay through their own efforts. On May 19, Fortuna Sittard will visit the Asito Stadium.[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Excelsior’s Lazaros Lamprou (G6, A5) has scored three times in his last three league matches, whilst Marko Vejinovic (G1, A1) was the only goalgetter for Heracles in their last three matches.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Excelsior won only one of their six home games as a pre-match favourite this Eredivisie season (D2, L3).[/p]