Lommel United favourites for feisty fight facing KRC Genk II

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Competition: Belgium Challenger Pro League
Competition: Sun 12.March
Match begins: 18:15 (UTC)
Venue: Soevereinstadion (12500 seats)

Lommel United have accomplished 4 home victories this season, KRC Genk II have won 2 away. Which team improves their standings after this one?

Insights:
  • KRC Genk II have the fewest points from losing position (2) in Challenger Pro League

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

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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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.

A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Lommel United, who played 0-0 against KRC Genk II. That match was also played at this venue (Soevereinstadion).

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Dender in a game that was won 1-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Lommel United handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

Lommel has scored 13 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Lommel United defense is not exactly impregnable. 18 goals conceded from 11 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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KRC Genk II form and stats

There's been little loot from KRC Genk II's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 11 away games in the Challenger Pro League. KRC Genk II only have 2 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 2 draws.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Lommel United in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 0-0.

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Standard Liege II.

KRC Genk II are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 2 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

KRC Genk II find the net regularly in their away games. 13 goals from 11 away fixtures in the league. Genk have conceded 23 goals in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

This was the end result when the teams played each other earlier this season; Lommel United - KRC Genk II 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Lommel two wins, zero draws and KRC Genk II zero victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Lommel UnitedR. Belghali
R. Belghali
6 goals
KRC Genk IIV. Beniangba
V. Beniangba
6 goals

Lommel United missing players

KRC Genk II missing players

Lommel United KRC Genk II
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
25 13 4 Played P 4 13 25
11 5 2 Won W 1 3 6
3 2 1 Drew D 0 3 7
11 6 1 Lost L 3 7 12
34 14 5 Scored S 7 16 32
37 18 3 Conceded C 10 24 42
96% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 92%
76% 69% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 77% 80%
56% 38% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 62% 60%
32% 23% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 75% 46% 40%
16% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 23% 20%
44% 46% 50% BTTS BTTS 75% 62% 60%
28% 23% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 23% 20%
32% 38% 25% Failed to Score F T 25% 23% 28%
 
4.9 5.7 6.8 Corners for (avg) C F 6.8 5.9 5.9
5.3 5.5 5.2 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 5 4.8
2.2 2.1 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.8 1.3 1.5
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 2 7
 
10.9 12.2 12.8 Shots (avg) S ( 12.5 11.5 10.8
5 5.4 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.8 5.2 4.8
27% 20% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 24% 26%
 
10.6 9.7 6.8 Shots against (avg) S A 13.2 13.6 11.8
4.8 5.2 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.2 6.1 5.1
Key stats in Challenger Pro League this season:
  • KRC Genk II have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • KRC Genk II have the fewest points (8) away in Challenger Pro League
  • KRC Genk II have the fewest points from losing position (2) in Challenger Pro League
  • KRC Genk II have the the worst goal difference (-10) away in Challenger Pro League

  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

Read more about Challenger Pro League

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.