Football betting preview: Lommel United vs Dender

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Competition: Belgium Challenger Pro League
Competition: Fri 03.March
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Soevereinstadion (12500 seats)

Get ready for Challenger Pro League and Lommel United - Dender. In this pre-match guide you'll find numbers, results, numbercrunching, tendencies and stories!

Insights:
  • Lommel United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Dender have the most conceded goals in the first half (24) in Challenger Pro League

Lommel United have had a bad season and will be relegated from Challenger Pro League. For Dender it's their last days at this level as relegation is a fact.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Lommel United form and stats

4-1-6 (win-draw-lost) are the Challenger Pro League numbers at home for Lommel United so far this season.

Martínez was the last player to score a league goal for Lommel United and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Lommel United haven't scored in 246 minutes.

The regulars are hoping that Lommel will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the match against Standard Liege II.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Lierse Kempenzonen (0-2).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Lommel United have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 7 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 1 and lost 1.

Lommel United are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 11 games. Lommel have conceded 18 from these games.

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Dender form and stats

Playing away, Dender have won 3 games, drawn 4 and suffered 4 defeats in the Challenger Pro League this season.

Dender are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the fixture against Excelsior Virton. Hooray; their first victory in the league after eight matches not winning.

A 2-5 defeat away at Waasland-Beveren before that.

We have checked recent matches where Dender have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 10 games were 3 victories, 2 draws and 5 defeats.

Sports betting statistic: Both sides have scored goal(s) in 9 of this club's last 11 league matches.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Dender have scored 14 goals in 11 league games away. Dender have conceded 16 goals in these away matches. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Lommel have avoided defeat in the last 6 games (4-2-0) facing Dender.

The teams involved met each other earlier this season: Lommel United - Dender 1-1. The referee had use for red card when these teams last played each other, and the culprit was Vancsa (Lommel United).

Top Goalscorers

Lommel UnitedR. Belghali
R. Belghali
6 goals
DenderS. Marzo
S. Marzo
5 goals

Lommel United missing players

Dender missing players

Lommel United Dender
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 3 Played P 3 11 23
10 4 2 Won W 2 3 6
2 1 0 Drew D 0 4 4
11 6 1 Lost L 1 4 13
33 13 5 Scored S 5 14 29
37 18 3 Conceded C 2 16 41
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
83% 82% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 78%
61% 45% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 27% 48%
35% 27% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 30%
17% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 30%
48% 55% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 64% 61%
22% 9% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 27% 13%
30% 36% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 9% 26%
 
4.9 5.8 5.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.4 4.2
5.5 6 7.7 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 4.2 4.5
2.3 2.1 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 1.7 1.9
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
11.1 12.9 15.7 Shots (avg) S ( 12.3 10.4 11.2
5.3 6 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.7 4.7 4.6
27% 20% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 27% 28%
 
10.8 10.1 9.3 Shots against (avg) S A 8.3 9.8 11
5 5.6 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.7 4.9 5.2
Key stats in Challenger Pro League this season:
  • Dender have the fewest matches over the total-line (11) in Challenger Pro League
  • Dender have the most conceded goals in the first half (24) in Challenger Pro League
  • Dender have the most matches under the total-line (12) in Challenger Pro League
  • Dender have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Dender haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Lommel United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 Liege 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.