Excelsior 3-3 SC Heerenveen: result and report

Eredivisie · Saturday 22 September 2018

Result

Excelsior 3-3 SC Heerenveen

Eredivisie · Saturday 22 September 2018, 17:45 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Excelsior 3-3 SC Heerenveen: match report

Excelsior drew with SC Heerenveen 3-3 in Eredivisie on Saturday 22 September 2018. The half-time score was 2-0.

Ali Messaoud opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Excelsior's goals came from Ali Messaoud (12'), Luigi Bruins (42') and Ali Messaoud (51'). SC Heerenveen scored through D. Bulthuis (49'), Morten Thorsby (59') and Jizz Hornkamp (90+2').

Discipline: Excelsior received no yellow cards; SC Heerenveen received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Excelsior were 13th on 5 points from 5 and SC Heerenveen 12th on 5 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Eredivisie season and is kept for reference.

Excelsior lined up in a 4-3-3 and SC Heerenveen in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Nemanja Mihajlović of SC Heerenveen (8.4), ahead of Ali Messaoud (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Excelsior wins, 2 draws and 5 for SC Heerenveen.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Goal · Ali MessaoudExcelsior · 1-0
  • 27'Yellow card · Morten ThorsbySC Heerenveen
  • 42'Goal · Luigi BruinsExcelsior · 2-0
  • 49'Goal · D. BulthuisSC Heerenveen · 2-1
  • 51'Goal · Ali MessaoudExcelsior · 3-1
  • 59'Goal · Morten ThorsbySC Heerenveen · 3-2
  • 90+2'Goal · Jizz HornkampSC Heerenveen · 3-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Excelsior 3, draws 2, SC Heerenveen 5.

Team news

Excelsior line-up (4-3-3)

Sonny Stevens, Jeffry Fortes, Jurgen Matheij, Hervé Matthys, Lorenzo Burnet, Jerdy Schouten, Ryan Koolwijk, Ali Messaoud, Marcus Edwards, Elías Már Ómarsson, Luigi Bruins

SC Heerenveen line-up (4-3-3)

Warner Hahn, Sherel Floranus, Daniel Høegh, Dave Bulthuis, Kik Pierie, Morten Thorsby, Yuki Kobayashi, Ben Rienstra, Mitchell van Bergen, Sam Lammers, Arbër Zeneli