NEC Nijmegen 2-0 Sparta Rotterdam: result and report
Eredivisie · Saturday 24 February 2024
Result
NEC Nijmegen 2-0 Sparta Rotterdam
Eredivisie · Saturday 24 February 2024, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
NEC Nijmegen 2-0 Sparta Rotterdam: match report
NEC Nijmegen won against Sparta Rotterdam 2-0 in Eredivisie on Saturday 24 February 2024. The half-time score was 2-0.
Dirk Proper opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. NEC Nijmegen's goals came from Dirk Proper (32') and Calvin Verdonk (36'). Sparta Rotterdam did not score.
Discipline: NEC Nijmegen received 1 yellow card; Sparta Rotterdam received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game NEC Nijmegen were 8th on 30 points from 22 and Sparta Rotterdam 9th on 29 points from 22. NEC Nijmegen went on to finish that season 7th with 53 points, and Sparta Rotterdam 9th with 49.
NEC Nijmegen lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sparta Rotterdam in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jasper Cillessen of NEC Nijmegen (8.4), ahead of Calvin Verdonk (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 NEC Nijmegen win, 5 draws and 4 for Sparta Rotterdam.
Key events
- 32'Goal · Dirk Proper
- 36'Goal · Calvin Verdonk
- 44'Yellow card · Bart Vriends
- 45'Yellow card · Joshua Kitolano
- 77'Yellow card · Djevencio van der Kust
- 82'Yellow card · Sontje Hansen
- 90+5'Yellow card · Hamza el Dahri
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
NEC Nijmegen line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jasper Cillessen, Bart van Rooij, Philippe Sandler, Calvin Verdonk, Youri Baas, Mees Hoedemakers, Dirk Proper, Kodai Sano, Tjaronn Chery, Rober González, Koki Ogawa
Sparta Rotterdam line-up (4-2-3-1)
Nick Olij, Saïd Bakari, Bart Vriends, Mike Eerdhuijzen, Djevencio van der Kust, Joshua Kitolano, Metinho, Shunsuke Mito, Arno Verschueren, Koki Saito, Tobias Lauritsen