This looks to be a goal-filled game where favourite probably takes the win. Heerenveen has collected 0 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses during last 8 games. Last 4 HOME games show 0 wins, 1 draws and 3 losses. Their last HOME game was on 10. January against Sittard and it ended up away win (1-3). If we look at the last 8 games of Waalwijk, we note 2 wins, 1 draws and 5 losses. Last 3 AWAY games are following: 1 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. Most recent AWAY game was on 22. December vs Sittard and the outcome was home win (2-1). Looking at the data above, we at hintwise.com see both teams being equal and a possible DRAW here. Our football prediction for 1X2: pick DRAW!
This will be a match involving Medium ranking team Heerenveen and Low ranking team Waalwijk. Heerenveen's last 10 HOME games against Low ranking teams show 4 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses. At the same time Waalwijk AWAY performance against Medium ranking teams shows 3 wins, 0 draws and 7 losses from last 10 AWAY games. Heerenveen's scoring power is 1.6 goals per game vs Waalwijk's 1.2. Looking at the defensive side, Heerenveen is performing 1.1 and Waalwijk 2.2 goals conceded on average per each game. Taking all the Ranking-based facts into account, we expect Heerenveen being stronger and most likely winning this game. Our football prediction for 1X2: Heerenveen to win! High confidence.
From last 8 games of Heerenveen we see 5 games going Over 2.5 Goals and 3 with Under 2.5 Goals. Last 8 games of Waalwijk have seen 3 Overs and 5 Unders. Looking at the rank-based O/U 2.5 stats of Heerenveen it has been 5 Overs and 5 Unders in their last 10 HOME games against teams with similar ranking to Waalwijk. Waalwijk has seen 6 Overs and 4 Unders in their last 10 AWAY games against teams with ranking close to Heerenveen. Heerenveen is averaging 1 goals in their home games while Waalwijk makes about 1 goals away from home. Taking both numbers together we get 2 goals per match between the teams. Heerenveen concedes 2.5 goals on average and Waalwijk 1.33. Both teams´s stats combined, we get a total of 3.83 goals conceded per match. With these statistics, we guess a total score of 2.9 goals per match. History shows that 62.5% of games end Over 2.5 for Heerenveen and 37.5% for Waalwijk. When trying to give a proper Over/Under 2.5 football prediction , I would say it will be a sure OVER 2.5 game. Under Over 2.5 tip: bet on OVER 2.5! High confidence.
From Heerenveen's last 8 encounters 6 have been with both teams scoring a goal and 2 only one team scoring or no goals at all. From Waalwijk's last 8 games, it is 4 with both teams scoring and 4 with only one team/no score. Considering the rank-based BTTS stats, Heerenveen had 6 games where both teams scored and 4 where at least one did not. For Waalwijk, we have seen 4 BTTS YES and 6 NO's. There is a 75% chance of Heerenveen scoring today and 62.5% for Waalwijk scoring today. Probability of conceding a goal is 100% for Heerenveen and 87.5% for Waalwijk. Looking at the numbers, we predict that it is going to be a game where BOTH TEAMS have a great chance to score and thus the best BTTS football prediction would be BOTH TEAMS to Score. High stakes.