The hosts, on the other hand, are in favour of all three things to keep up speed with Ajax at the top of the Eredivisie table.
In their last game before the international break, PSV Eindhoven avoided the risk of Sparta Rotterdam with a 2-1 win on October 3.
After a quiet first 80 minutes, the game came alive in the closing stages thanks to goals from Ibrahim Sangaré and Ryan Thomas that propelled Roger Schmidt’s men to a two-goal lead, before Lennart Thy pulled one back for his side in the final. Minute of play. Normal time.
As a result, the Rood-witten have climbed to second place in the Eredivisie table and are just one point behind current leader Ajax at the top of the table.
Next up is a clash against an opposing team that has lost 16 of the last 19 games dating back to 2012.
Saturday’s hosts will face French side Monaco in the Europa League five days later and will want to set the tone with a convincing performance this weekend.
PEC Zwolle suffered their 7th league defeat in 8 games this season after narrowly losing 1-0 to Heerenveen two Sundays ago.
An own goal from Bram Van Polen 3 minutes after the hour was enough to end an otherwise nervous and cautious festival at the Mac3Park Stadion.
The Blauwvingers remain at the bottom of the table, five free points from defense after the first eight rounds of matches.
Having discovered the only two halves this season, Saturday’s visitors will want to regain their merits in front of goal to improve results.
Ritsu Doan, Mees Kreekels, Shurandy Sambo and Richard Ledezma are all ruled out with knee injuries and will be concerned this weekend.
The home side will also to have to make do with the absence of Fode Fofana who sustained an ankle injury while on duty with the Netherlands Under-21s.
After coming off the bench in the second half to good effect last time out, Ryan Thomas could be handed a spot in the starting lineup this time around.
Zwolle’s Mees de Wit will be unavailable due to a hand injury, while 25-year-old Pelle Clement is yet to fully recover from an ankle problem.
Sai Van Wermeskerken has not been available for the visitors since suffering a knee injury in February, and the Japanese defender remains on the bench.
Possible XI for PSV Eindhoven 😀 Rommel; Max, Boscagli, Ramalho, Mwene; Sangaré, Van Ginkel, Götze; Gakpo, Zahavi, Mist
PEC Zwolle possible starting lineup:Lamprou; Pabai, Van Polen, Kersten, Nakayama; Saymak, Strieder, Huiberts; Kastaneer, Tedic, Redan
The home team will have to prove its superiority over the away team and get the 3 points. The visitors have struggled at both ends of the pitch this season and we expect PSV to cause them even more distress.
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a PSV Eindhoven win with a probability of 73.52%. A draw had a probability of 16% and a win for PEC Zwolle had a probability of 10.49%.
The most likely scoreline for a PSV Eindhoven win was 2-0 with a probability of 11.17%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 2-1 (9.31%) and 3-0 (9.27%). The likeliest drawn scoreline was 1-1 (7.48%), while for a PEC Zwolle win it was 1-2 (3.12%). The actual scoreline of 3-1 was predicted with a 7.7% likelihood. Our data analysis correctly predicted that PSV Eindhoven would win this match.