Liège scrimmages with Dender in Challenger Pro League battle

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Competition: Belgium Challenger Pro League
Competition: Sat 12.Aug
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Rue de la Tonne (3468 seats)

Liège and Dender are keen to show off their new people and abilities: It's the first fixture of the Challenger Pro League season.

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Liège form and stats

It's the first season at a new level for Liège as they were promoted from First Amateur Division last season. Happy days that were secured through 25 wins, 11 draws and 2 losses from 38 games. The team scored 66 goals at home last season and conceded 15. It will be interesting to see how they perform at this level.

Liège have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and six practice matches played. These training games have ended with 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Liège scored {11 goals} and let in {5 goals} during these six games.

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Dender form and stats

Let's have a look at how Dender performed last season in the Challenger Pro League: They landed a 10th position in the league table after playing out 5 victories, 4 draws and 13 defeats. In total they scored 27 and conceded {40 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 4 and lost 4 with 14/16 goals scored/conceded.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 7 similar matches played by Dender in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Dender, 4 draws and 1 defeat.

Dender played three friendlies in their break from official games, resulting in 3 victories, 0 draws and 0 defeats. In these three matches Dender scored 6 and conceded {1 goals}.

Head 2 Head

Liège-Dender H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Liège four wins, Dender three wins, three draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Liège missing players

Dender missing players

Liège Dender
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
0 0 0 Played P 0 0 0
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored S 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 0
Liège Last season Dender
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
38 19   Played P   16 32
25 17   Won W   5 11
11 2   Drew D   5 6
2 0   Lost L   6 15
99 66   Scored S   22 41
29 15   Conceded C   21 47
89% 95%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 97%
84% 95%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   81% 69%
63% 79%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   31% 44%
42% 58%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   25% 28%
26% 37%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   19% 25%
58% 63%   BTTS BTTS   56% 53%
39% 37%   Clean Sheets C S   31% 25%
13% 5%   Failed to Score F T   12% 25%
 
6.5 6.8   Corners for (avg) C F   3.5 4.3
2.7 2.2   Corners against (avg) C A   4 4.3
1.3 1   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.8 2
3 1   Red cards R C   1 4
 
12.8 14.5   Shots (avg) S (   10.7 11.2
6.6 8.6   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.8 4.5
43% 42%   Goal Efficiency G E   29% 28%
 
7 6.8   Shots against (avg) S A   10.2 10.3
3.4 3.4   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.8 4.7

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Beerschot-Wilrijk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Club Brugge II 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Deinze 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Dender 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Francs Borains 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 KRC Genk II 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 KV Oostende 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Liège 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Lierse Kempenzonen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Lommel United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Patro Eisden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 RFC Seraing 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 RSC Anderlecht II 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Standard Liege II 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Waasland-Beveren 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Zulte-Waregem 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Liège 38 25 11 2 99 29 19 17 2 0 66 15 19 8 9 2 33 14 70 86
2 Patro Eisden 38 26 8 4 84 23 19 13 6 0 40 7 19 13 2 4 44 16 61 86
3 Francs Borains 38 23 8 7 79 46 19 14 3 2 43 20 19 9 5 5 36 26 33 77
4 La Louviere 38 22 7 9 72 39 19 13 4 2 40 15 19 9 3 7 32 24 33 73
5 KAA Gent II 38 19 10 9 59 43 19 11 3 5 32 21 19 8 7 4 27 22 16 67
6 Heist 38 16 13 9 69 59 19 9 6 4 40 28 19 7 7 5 29 31 10 61
7 Olympic Charleroi 38 18 6 14 71 52 19 11 2 6 33 20 19 7 4 8 38 32 19 60
8 Knokke 38 18 6 14 65 58 19 11 3 5 40 28 19 7 3 9 25 30 7 60
9 URSL Vise 38 15 11 12 66 52 19 8 6 5 30 24 19 7 5 7 36 28 14 56
10 Thes Sport 38 13 14 11 58 52 19 8 9 2 38 23 19 5 5 9 20 29 6 53
11 Oud-Heverlee Leuven II 38 15 6 17 61 68 19 8 5 6 35 29 19 7 1 11 26 39 -7 50
12 Tienen 38 12 10 16 50 60 19 7 5 7 24 32 19 5 5 9 26 28 -10 46
13 Sporting Charleroi II 38 12 8 18 41 58 19 7 3 9 21 28 19 5 5 9 20 30 -17 44
14 Dessel Sport 38 11 10 17 45 65 19 5 4 10 19 32 19 6 6 7 26 33 -20 43
15 Sint-Eloois-Winkel 38 11 9 18 44 58 19 7 5 7 26 28 19 4 4 11 18 30 -14 42
16 Hoogstraten 38 11 8 19 46 60 19 5 4 10 21 31 19 6 4 9 25 29 -14 41
17 Royal Antwerp II 38 11 6 21 33 58 19 5 4 10 14 22 19 6 2 11 19 36 -25 39
18 Ninove 38 10 5 23 39 75 19 6 1 12 21 32 19 4 4 11 18 43 -36 35
19 Rupel Boom 38 6 6 26 29 83 19 3 5 11 17 40 19 3 1 15 12 43 -54 24
20 Mandel United 38 4 2 32 16 88 19 1 2 16 8 43 19 3 0 16 8 45 -72 14
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Lommel United 32 16 3 13 53 46 16 8 1 7 27 22 16 8 2 6 26 24 7 51
2 Deinze 32 15 4 13 49 47 16 9 2 5 35 26 16 6 2 8 14 21 2 49
3 Dender 32 11 6 15 41 47 16 6 1 9 19 26 16 5 5 6 22 21 -6 39
4 Standard Liege II 32 5 12 15 31 60 16 2 8 6 18 28 16 3 4 9 13 32 -29 27
5 KRC Genk II 32 6 8 18 36 58 16 3 5 8 19 28 16 3 3 10 17 30 -22 26
6 Excelsior Virton 32 5 10 17 32 51 16 2 5 9 12 20 16 3 5 8 20 31 -19 25

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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.