Go Ahead Eagles 2-1 FC Groningen: result and report

Eredivisie · Saturday 18 January 2025

Result

Go Ahead Eagles 2-1 FC Groningen

Eredivisie · Saturday 18 January 2025, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Go Ahead Eagles 2-1 FC Groningen: match report

Go Ahead Eagles defeated FC Groningen 2-1 in Eredivisie on Saturday 18 January 2025. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Oliver Antman opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Go Ahead Eagles's goals came from Oliver Antman (5') and Milan Smit (90+1'). FC Groningen scored through Brynjólfur Willumsson (31').

Discipline: Go Ahead Eagles received 1 yellow card; FC Groningen received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Go Ahead Eagles were 7th on 28 points from 18 and FC Groningen 14th on 17 points from 17. Go Ahead Eagles went on to finish that season 7th with 51 points, and FC Groningen 13th with 39.

Go Ahead Eagles lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and FC Groningen in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Thijs Oosting of FC Groningen (7.9), ahead of Joris Kramer (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Go Ahead Eagles win, 2 draws and 7 for FC Groningen.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · Oliver AntmanGo Ahead Eagles · 1-0
  • 31'Goal · Brynjólfur WillumssonFC Groningen · 1-1
  • 83'Yellow card · Mathis SurayGo Ahead Eagles
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Rui MendesFC Groningen
  • 90+1'Goal · Milan SmitGo Ahead Eagles · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Go Ahead Eagles 1, draws 2, FC Groningen 7.

Team news

Unavailable

  • Fofin TurayFC Groningen · injury (Achilles tendon problems)

Go Ahead Eagles line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jari De Busser, Mats Deijl, Gerrit Nauber, Joris Kramer, Dean James, Enric Llansana, Evert Linthorst, Oliver Antman, Jakob Breum, Oliver Edvardsen, Victor Edvardsen

FC Groningen line-up (4-4-2)

Etienne Vaessen, Leandro Bacuna, Marco Rente, Thijmen Blokzijl, Wouter Prins, Luciano Valente, Tika de Jonge, Stije Resink, Mats Seuntjens, Brynjólfur Willumsson, Thijs Oosting