Match Report
The table gap was wide: 16 points between PEC Zwolle (10th, 41 pts) and RKC Waalwijk (17th, 25 pts). Recent form flatters PEC Zwolle's table spot — 3rd league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 10th. Against a league average of 1.49 goals per team per game, PEC Zwolle ran at 1.26 scored and 1.5 conceded, RKC Waalwijk at 1.29 and 2.18.
PEC Zwolle's winless run stood at 6. RKC Waalwijk had been beaten in three straight games.
The sides have met 14 times in the GioScore results database: 4 wins for PEC Zwolle, 9 draws and 1 for RKC Waalwijk, at 2.86 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 14% of the meetings went to the host. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 29% of the meetings. Where history says 2.86 goals per meeting, the last five say 3.8.
MAC³PARK Stadion in Zwolle, capacity 14,000, hosted the game. With 100 matches recorded and 2.7 yellow cards per game, D. Makkelie was the man in the middle. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-0.
Goal scorers
PEC Zwolle: Filip Krastev (83'), Dylan Vente (74')