Soccer fixture guide: Home fans with high hopes before Dender - Standard Liège II

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Competition: Belgium Challenger Pro League
Competition: Fri 21.April
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Van Roystadion (6429 seats)

Dender are longing to add to their goals scored at their own ground in this fixture versus Standard Liège II.

Insights:
  • Dender have the fewest matches over the total-line (12) in Challenger Pro League
  • Standard Liège II have the most conceded goals (43) in Challenger Pro League

For Dender relegation is already certain this season. Only divine intervention and/or time travel can save them and neither look likely. Standard Liège II are nearing the end of this stay in this division as relegation is now unavoidable.

Dender and Standard Liège II should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Dender form and stats

Dender's results here at Van Roystadion in the Challenger Pro League have been very modest with 2 victories, 0 draws and 9 defeats. When Dender hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Dender, KRC Genk II and Excelsior Virton), they have won 2 of 4 matches! It’s been three wins in a row for Dender here at Van Roystadion, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Dender are confident in defense, having played 270 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

A good away victory last time out for Dender, who won 1-0 against Excelsior Virton. The victory against Excelsior Virton came after Rajsel's winning goal. The Dender manager Simons was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 59th minute.

A strong away win before that one, visiting KRC Genk II and winning 4-0.

The Dender fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 13 in 11 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Dender with 24 goals conceded in these matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Standard Liège II form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Standard Liège II so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 3-2-6 (win-draw-lose). With two straight losses from their last two away games, Standard Liège II are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

There were no winners in Standard's previous match, the home game that ended 0-0 vs KRC Genk II.

Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Deinze.

Standard Liège II struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 19 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Standard Liège II - Dender 1-1 was the scoreline in these contenders' previous head-to-head game, played this season. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's zero Dender victories, two draws and one Standard Liège II win. Over/under statistics; zero of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

DenderN. Rajsel
N. Rajsel
5 goals
DenderT. Cukur
T. Cukur
5 goals
DenderS. Marzo
S. Marzo
5 goals

Dender missing players

Standard Liège II missing players

Dender Standard Liège II
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 14 4 Played P 4 14 29
10 5 2 Won W 1 3 5
5 0 0 Drew D 2 3 10
14 9 2 Lost L 1 8 14
37 17 6 Scored S 5 12 29
43 25 6 Conceded C 4 26 53
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
69% 57% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 71% 76%
41% 57% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 50% 59%
28% 36% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 36% 38%
24% 36% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 14%
52% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 43% 59%
24% 14% 25% Clean Sheets C S 25% 21% 21%
24% 36% 25% Failed to Score F T 25% 36% 28%
 
4 4.7 3.8 Corners for (avg) C F 5.2 5.7 5.3
4.3 4.8 6.2 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.4 5.6
2 2.1 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.6 2.1
4 3 1 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
10.9 11.7 8 Shots (avg) S ( 13 10.7 9.8
4.4 4.5 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 4 4.2
29% 27% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 28% 19% 23%
 
10.5 11.3 10.2 Shots against (avg) S A 9 13.2 11.4
4.7 5 5.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.2 5 5.1
Key stats in Challenger Pro League this season:
  • Dender have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Dender have the fewest matches over the total-line (12) in Challenger Pro League
  • Dender have the most matches under the total-line (17) in Challenger Pro League
  • Dender have the the worst goal difference (-11) at home in Challenger Pro League
  • Dender haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Standard Liège II have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Standard Liège II have the fewest scored goals in the first half (13) in Challenger Pro League
  • Standard Liège II have the most conceded goals (43) in Challenger Pro League
  • Standard Liège II have the most conceded goals in the first half (26) in Challenger Pro League
  • Standard Liège II have the the worst goal difference (-18) in Challenger Pro League
  • Standard Liège II haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 RWDM 22 14 4 4 41 21 11 8 2 1 25 9 11 6 2 3 16 12 20 46
2 Waasland-Beveren 22 12 7 3 52 25 11 8 2 1 29 11 11 4 5 2 23 14 27 43
3 Beerschot-Wilrijk 22 12 2 8 33 28 11 6 1 4 15 11 11 6 1 4 18 17 5 38
4 Club Brugge II 22 10 6 6 38 30 11 7 3 1 22 12 11 3 3 5 16 18 8 36
5 Lierse Kempenzonen 22 11 3 8 42 42 11 7 1 3 25 18 11 4 2 5 17 24 0 36
6 RSC Anderlecht II 22 9 7 6 42 35 11 3 5 3 18 15 11 6 2 3 24 20 7 34
7 Lommel United 22 10 2 10 33 36 11 4 1 6 13 18 11 6 1 4 20 18 -3 32
8 Deinze 22 9 3 10 29 33 11 6 1 4 22 19 11 3 2 6 7 14 -4 30
9 KRC Genk II 22 5 5 12 28 40 11 3 3 5 15 17 11 2 2 7 13 23 -12 20
10 Dender 22 5 4 13 27 40 11 2 0 9 13 24 11 3 4 4 14 16 -13 19
11 Standard Liège II 22 4 7 11 25 43 11 1 5 5 14 24 11 3 2 6 11 19 -18 19
12 Excelsior Virton 22 2 8 12 21 38 11 0 5 6 7 15 11 2 3 6 14 23 -17 14

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The First Division B is the second highest league in Belgian football. It replaced the Belgian Second Division in 2016. It has eight teams playing a league in two stages, “opening” and “closing”. Each stage has each team playing 14 fixtures and the winner of each qualify for promotion play-offs.