Match Report
The table gap was wide: 27 points between SC Heerenveen (8th, 46 pts) and SC Cambuur (17th, 19 pts). Scoring rates set the scale: SC Cambuur 0.76 scored and 2.03 conceded per game, SC Heerenveen 1.29 and 1.47, with the league averaging 1.53.
SC Heerenveen had been beaten in four straight games.
9 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — SC Cambuur 2, draws 2, SC Heerenveen 5, at 3.22 goals per meeting. The fixture leans high-scoring: 78% of meetings brought at least three goals, and both sides scored in 78%.
With 100 matches recorded and 2.7 yellow cards per game, D. Makkelie was the man in the middle. Cambuurstadion in Leeuwarden staged the fixture, a ground that holds 10,000. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 1-2.