Preview: FC Twente vs Go Ahead Eagles – prediction, team news, lineups.

In Round 16 of the 2025-26 Eredivisie season, FC Twente and Go Ahead Eagles will clash at De Grolsch Veste on Sunday afternoon.

After stalemates in their last league games, both teams will look to get back to winning ways and rekindle their European dreams.

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Match preview

Despite being difficult to beat recently, Twente has struggled for wins, with last Sunday’s draw against Utrecht being their fifth draw in seven matches across all competitions.

John van den Brom would have been happy with his side’s relentlessness, with Mats Rots’ leveller last time out being the seventh goal Twente have scored in the final 15 minutes of matches, accounting for nearly 30% of their 23 scores.

Twente is now seventh in the Eredivisie league, securing the final European slot. However, they will need to improve their results to clinch continental football.

Off the back of winning three straight meetings against Go Ahead Eagles, the Tukkers are without a victory in two editions of this fixture since the turn of the year, having been dumped out of the KNVB Beker in January’s affair, three weeks before a thrilling 3-3 draw.

With clean sheets in each of their last three home matches, Sunday’s hosts have been defensively solid in front of their fans lately, and another solid showing at the back would put them in pole position to secure maximum points.

For the first time in 40 years, the Go Ahead Eagles are in the group stages of a UEFA competition, but their European commitment has taken its toll, as Thursday’s 2-1 setback to Ligue 1 team Lyon extended their winless record to five matches.

 

Despite impressive wins over Aston Villa and Feyenoord, Melvin Boel’s team has struggled with consistency.

With the same amount of points as this time last season (18), the pride of the IJssel Kowet is once again vying for a spot in Europe, trailing only Twente by three points.

Given their record of just one win in eight Eredivisie away games, Go Ahead Eagles have been underperforming on their travels leading up to their trip to Enschede, where they will be looking for their first league victory since 2018.

Sunday’s visitors, like their hosts, have a KNVB Beker match against a lower-league opponent on the horizon, but their immediate goal will be to take maximum points from this weekend’s game and potentially move into the top eight.

Team News

Taylor Booth, Max Bruns, and Naci Unuvar will miss Sunday’s game due to muscle concerns.

Daouda Weidmann has been sidelined since September owing to a thigh ailment, while Mees Hilgers is still recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament injury.

With six yellow cards in 14 appearances, Robin Propper has already served a one-game suspension and must maintain discipline to avoid further punishment.

Soren Tengstedt has not played for the Go Ahead Eagles this season due to a foot injury sustained during the preseason, but the Dane is expected to return early next year.

The visitors are without Pim Saathof and Robbin Weijenberg due to knee injuries, while Gerrit Nauber has a broken leg.

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