NAC Breda 0-2 Excelsior: result and report

Eredivisie · Saturday 25 August 2018

Result

NAC Breda 0-2 Excelsior

Eredivisie · Saturday 25 August 2018, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-1

NAC Breda · Excelsior · Eredivisie predictions

NAC Breda 0-2 Excelsior: match report

NAC Breda lost to Excelsior 0-2 in Eredivisie on Saturday 25 August 2018. The half-time score was 0-1.

Ali Messaoud opened the scoring in the 15th minute. NAC Breda did not score. Excelsior scored through Ali Messaoud (15') and Jeffry Fortes (54').

Discipline: NAC Breda received 3 yellow cards; Excelsior received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game NAC Breda were 11th on 3 points from 2 and Excelsior 17th on 1 point from 2. This fixture belongs to an earlier Eredivisie season and is kept for reference.

NAC Breda lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Excelsior in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Sonny Stevens of Excelsior (8.2), ahead of Jeffry Fortes (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 NAC Breda win, 1 draw and 0 for Excelsior.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Yellow card · Menno KochNAC Breda
  • 13'Yellow card · Gianluca NijholtNAC Breda
  • 15'Goal · Ali MessaoudExcelsior · 0-1
  • 27'Yellow card · Jeffry FortesExcelsior
  • 54'Goal · Jeffry FortesExcelsior · 0-2
  • 63'Yellow card · Luka IlicNAC Breda
  • 68'Yellow card · Jurgen MattheijExcelsior
  • 69'Missed penalty · M. te VredeNAC Breda

Head-to-head

2 meetings: NAC Breda 1, draws 1, Excelsior 0.

Team news

NAC Breda line-up (4-2-3-1)

Karol Niemczycki, Arno Verschueren, Menno Koch, Karol Mets, Greg Leigh, Gianluca Nijholt, Anouar Kali, Mikhael Rosheuvel, Luka Ilic, Mounir El Allouchi, Mitchell Te Vrede

Excelsior line-up (4-3-3)

Sonny Stevens, Jeffry Fortes, Jurgen Matheij, Hervé Matthys, Lorenzo Burnet, Jerdy Schouten, Ali Messaoud, Ryan Koolwijk, Mikael Anderson, Elías Már Ómarsson, Denis Mahmudov