FC Groningen 2-1 NEC Nijmegen: result and report

Eredivisie · Saturday 8 February 2025

Result

FC Groningen 2-1 NEC Nijmegen

Eredivisie · Saturday 8 February 2025, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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FC Groningen 2-1 NEC Nijmegen: match report

FC Groningen won against NEC Nijmegen 2-1 in Eredivisie on Saturday 8 February 2025. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Wouter Prins opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. FC Groningen's goals came from Wouter Prins (2') and Thom van Bergen (31'). NEC Nijmegen scored through Vito van Crooij (66').

Discipline: FC Groningen received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; NEC Nijmegen received no yellow cards.

Going into the game FC Groningen were 15th on 21 points from 21 and NEC Nijmegen 11th on 24 points from 20. FC Groningen went on to finish that season 13th with 39 points, and NEC Nijmegen 8th with 44.

FC Groningen lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and NEC Nijmegen in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Calvin Verdonk of NEC Nijmegen (8.0), level with Wouter Prins (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 FC Groningen wins, 4 draws and 3 for NEC Nijmegen.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Wouter PrinsFC Groningen · 1-0
  • 31'Goal · Thom van BergenFC Groningen · 2-0
  • 53'Yellow card · Tika de JongeFC Groningen
  • 58'Red card · Thijmen BlokzijlFC Groningen
  • 66'Goal · Vito van CrooijNEC Nijmegen · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: FC Groningen 3, draws 4, NEC Nijmegen 3.

Team news

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FC Groningen line-up (4-2-3-1)

Etienne Vaessen, Marco Rente, Hjalmar Ekdal, Thijmen Blokzijl, Wouter Prins, Tika de Jonge, Stije Resink, Mats Seuntjens, Luciano Valente, Dave Kwakman, Thom van Bergen

NEC Nijmegen line-up (4-2-3-1)

Robin Roefs, Brayann Pereira, Philippe Sandler, Iván Márquez, Calvin Verdonk, Dirk Proper, Mees Hoedemakers, Sami Ouaissa, Vito van Crooij, Sontje Hansen, Koki Ogawa