Emmen should not be favorite here.

They are in the relegation zone, sitting 16th with just 3 victories so far (20 games played). They have also the second worst attack of the league with just 17 goals scored.

We must remember that it’s a team made to avoid relegation: they were promoted this season, while in 2020-21 were relegated from Eredivisie. They are a difficult team to beat because they are competitive, but also are struggling a lot to achieve victories.

They have been dealing with problems in the recent weeks with training, because many players had injuries - A total of 10. As the coach said: “Every new day of training is exciting, to see which new players we have available”. In the midweek game of Cup against PSV they were without Mart Lieder, Jeff Hardeveld, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Metehan Güçlü, Rui Mendes, Richairo Zivkovic, Oussama Darfalou, Jeroen Veldmate, Lorenzo Burnet, Ole Romeny en Ahmed El Messaoudi.

Zivkovic, Veldmate, Mendes are solid starters, as well as Darfalou and Romeny who are also the topscorers of the team with 4 goals each one. Others like Ahmed El Messaoudi or Burnet have also been starters in several games so far.

It’s still uncertain which players will be definitely out for today, but at least Veldmate, Mendes, Zivkovic and Darfalou are confirmed out. The rest are still doubtful but as said, they missed the game played in the midweek against PSV and could’t train during the week.

On the other hand, Fortuna Sittard is a mid table team, sitting 11th in the Eredivisie. Are a solid traveler, with 11 points in 9 games (while at home reached just 12 in 11 fixtures). Made a terrible performance in their previous game against Emmen, where they lost 0:1 at home and surely want revenge here. They have a much better squad than Emmen, more experience and don't have to deal with the amount of injuries that Emmen has.

For me this should be a total 50-50 game. Hosts aren’t in the best situation to be competitive due to the amount of injuries they had, while guests are a pretty competitive team and have more quality, so should be able to at least avoid the defeat against the team with less victories in the whole league so far (along with the other two relegation teams Cambuur and Groningen).

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埃门在这里不受欢迎。

他们目前在降级区，目前仅取得3场胜利(20场比赛)排在第16位。他们的进攻也在联赛中排名第二，只有17个进球。

我们必须记住，这是一支为保级而生的球队:他们本赛季升级，而在2020-21赛季从荷甲降级。他们是一支很难击败的球队，因为他们很有竞争力，但也在努力取得胜利。

他们在最近几周的训练中一直在处理问题，因为很多球员都受伤了——总共10人。正如教练所说:“每一天的训练都是令人兴奋的，看看我们有哪些新球员可以上场。”在周中对阵埃因霍温的比赛中，他们没有马尔特·利德尔，杰夫·哈代德，麦克尔·基夫滕伯德，梅特汉Güçlü，鲁伊·门德斯，里奇罗·兹夫科维奇，乌萨马·达尔法卢，耶罗恩·维尔德马特，洛伦佐·伯内特，奥勒·罗梅尼恩·艾哈迈德·埃尔梅索迪。

日夫科维奇、维尔德马特、门德斯都是稳定的首发球员，此外，达法卢和罗梅尼也是队内射手王，两人各进4球。到目前为止，其他像艾哈迈德·埃尔·梅萨迪和伯内特这样的球员也在几场比赛中担任首发。

目前还不确定哪些球员将缺席今天的比赛，但至少维尔德马特、门德斯、日夫科维奇和达法卢已经确定缺席。其余的人仍然有疑问，但正如前面所说，他们错过了周中对阵埃因霍温的比赛，也不能在本周进行训练。

另一方面，福尔图纳·西塔尔是一支中游球队，在欧洲联赛中排名第11位。在9场比赛中得到11分(而在主场的11场比赛中只得到12分)。在上一场对阵埃门的比赛中表现糟糕，他们在主场0:1失利，肯定想在这里复仇。他们拥有比埃曼更好的阵容，更有经验，而且不需要像埃曼那样处理大量的伤病。

对我来说，这应该是五五开的比赛。主队由于伤病人数众多，处于不太有竞争力的状态，而客队是一支相当有竞争力的球队，实力更强，所以至少应该能够避免输给迄今为止在整个联赛中获胜较少的球队(还有另外两支降级球队康布尔和格罗宁根)。