Preview:Heracles vs. Heerenveen - prediction, team news, lineups

Unbeaten in their last five home matches in the Eredivisie, Heracles welcome Heerenveen to the Erve Asito on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the visitors are looking to pick up where they left off following an impressive performance against one of the league's hotshots last time out.

Match preview

Heracles suffered a second consecutive league defeat on Wednesday when they were beaten 2-1 by Feyenoord at De Kuip.

Despite taking the lead through Sinan Bakis, Frank Wormuth's men failed to hold on to their advantage and came up empty-handed thanks to goals in either half from Luis Sinisterra.

The Heraclieden have lost three of their last four outings and dropped down to 14th place in the Eredivisie table as a result.

An opportunity to get back on track awaits against an opposing side who they beat in both of last season's league meetings.

Only the current top four teams have a better record on home turf than Saturday's hosts, and the Almelo-based club will be confident of picking up another positive result in front of their fans this weekend.

Heerenveen became just the fourth team to deny PSV Eindhoven all three points this term following a 1-1 draw at the Abe Lenstra Stadion on Sunday.

Johnny Jansen's men fell behind to Carlos Vinicius's 13th-minute strike before hitting back through Rami Hajal 17 minutes from time.

Having amassed five of the last nine points available, De Superfriezen are 10th on the log as things stand, just a point off the top half.

Saturday's visitors, who are yet to keep a clean sheet in any of their last eight games across all competitions, will need to tighten up at the back to avoid a third straight loss in this fixture.

Team News

Rai Vloet has missed his side's last three games due to personal reasons and the 26-year-old is unavailable for the home side.

Heracles will also be without the services of Danish midfielder Kasper Jakobsen, who is currently sidelined with a knee problem.

Heerenveen's Erwin Mulder is yet to feature since September due to a finger injury, while Pawel Bochniewicz continues to nurse a knee injury.

Siem de Jong and Arjen van der Heide remain ruled out with muscle injuries and will play no part in this weekend's clash.

Heracles possible starting lineup:

Blaswich; Quagliata, Knoester, Rente, Bakboord; De La Torre, Kioumourtzoglou, Sierhuis; Fadiga, Burgzorg, Bakis

Heerenveen possible starting lineup:

Mous; Van Beek, Bakker, Kaib, Van Ewijk; J.Veerman, Madsen, Kongolo; Halilovic, H.Veerman, Stevanovic

We say: Heracles 2-1 Heerenveen

Heracles have been imperious on home turf and will back themselves to claim all three points in this one. We fancy them to come out on top at the end of the 90 minutes, albeit by a narrow margin.