FC Groningen 2-1 Heracles Almelo: result and report
Eredivisie · Sunday 22 January 2012
Result
FC Groningen 2-1 Heracles Almelo
Eredivisie · Sunday 22 January 2012, 13:30 UTC · half-time 0-1
FC Groningen 2-1 Heracles Almelo: match report
FC Groningen defeated Heracles Almelo 2-1 in Eredivisie on Sunday 22 January 2012. The half-time score was 0-1.
Glynor Plet opened the scoring in the 16th minute. FC Groningen's goals came from D. Texeira (48') and Virgil van Dijk (61'). Heracles Almelo scored through Glynor Plet (16').
Discipline: FC Groningen received 3 yellow cards; Heracles Almelo received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game FC Groningen were 8th on 26 points from 17 and Heracles Almelo 12th on 20 points from 17. FC Groningen went on to finish that season 14th with 37 points, and Heracles Almelo 12th with 40.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 FC Groningen wins, 1 draw and 6 for Heracles Almelo.
Going into the match FC Groningen's last five read W-D-D-L-W and Heracles Almelo's L-L-W-L-D.
Key events
- 16'Goal · Glynor Plet
- 30'Yellow card · Ben Rienstra
- 39'Yellow card · Virgil van Dijk
- 48'Goal · D. Texeira
- 61'Goal · Virgil van Dijk
- 77'Yellow card · Kees Kwakman
- 84'Yellow card · L. Bacuna
- 90+1'Yellow card · Lerin Duarte
Head-to-head
Team news
FC Groningen line-up
Luciano, Jonas Ivens, Johan Kappelhof, Virgil van Dijk, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Petter Andersson, David Texeira, Dusan Tadic, N. Pedersen, Tim Sparv, Lorenzo Burnet
Heracles Almelo line-up
Remko Pasveer, Tim Breukers, Antoine van der Linden, Mark Looms, Lerin Duarte, Marko Vejinović, Ben Rienstra, Kwame Quansah, Willie Overtoom, Glynor Plet, Kristiano Samuel Armenteros