Vitesse vs Sparta Rotterdam Predictions

• Vitesse have just ended a six-game winless run with back-to-back wins.
• Sparta Rotterdam won just one of their last 12 competitive matches.
• Since a 6-0 win in 1971/72, Sparta have won none of the following 24 Eredivisie away H2Hs.

Resurgent Vitesse may have turned the corner

A 4-1 win over NEC in the last round ended a four-game winless run of Eredivisie games while ensuring that they won’t be looking over their shoulders at the play-off chasing sides just yet.

Here they welcome a relegation-threatened Sparta Rotterdam side who are winless in 11 of their last 12, suggesting on form alone that a home win is a likely outcome.

You will be hard pressed to find a home H2H record between two sides more dominant than Vitesse against Sparta, the visitors won in only the first ever meeting in Arnhem. Since then, Sparta have played Vitesse on their own patch 26 times without a victory (D6, L20).

The drop looms for Sparta

To put it simply, Sparta are having a terrible season. The visitors have never picked up fewer than their current three wins at this stage of an Eredivisie campaign in their history, though they did have three wins at this stage in 2017/18, which unsurprisingly ended in relegation.

Just one of those wins came in away games (D3, L6) which is why it is simply impossible to side with Sparta in this clash. All things considered, the odds on a home win seem like unbelievable value.

As for the correct score, I will be going for a modest play on a 2-1 Vitesse success.

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