Dender and Liège supporters eagerly anticipate First Amateur Division meet at Van Roystadion

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Competition: Belgium First Amateur Division
Competition: Wed 11.May
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Van Roystadion (6429 seats)

The Dender & Liège head coaches Acker and Brnčić are both fearful of and looking forward to this highly important game in the higher area of the First Amateur Division positions.

Insights:
  • Dender have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Liège have the most scored goals (57) in First Amateur Division

Happy, happy days for Liège who are already winners of the First Amateur Division. This could affect their motivation. Liège play their home fixtures on artifical turf, while this match will take place on grass. Recent stats for Liège when featuring on grass are 7 wins, 5 draws and 5 defeats from 17 matches. They have scored 30 goals and conceded 16 times on these occasions.

It's no vacation for neither Dender nor Liège as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Dender form and stats

Dender have performed here at Van Roystadion this season with 9 wins from 14 First Amateur Division matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 5 games and lost 0. The Dender fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Van Roystadion and will expect new points from this game. Dender has played 15 games in a row here without a defeat.

A good away victory last time out for Dender, who won 3-1 against Dessel Sport.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Mandel United.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Knokke are coming to town in three days.

Dender have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Van Roystadion with 25 goals in 14 league matches. Dender are not conceding a lot of goals here at Van Roystadion in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 14 matches.

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Liège form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their First Amateur Division travels is 5 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats.

Liège go into this game after a win, the home game against Knokke that ended 2-1.

A home win before that, celebrating 3-1 vs Olympic Charleroi.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The First Amateur Division trip to Dessel Sport.

Liège has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 22 goals from 14 games. As opposed to that, Liège have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these parties get together this season, as the records show this recent fixture: Liège - Dender 3-0. As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's two Dender victories, three draws and three Liège wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

LiègeJ. Perbet
J. Perbet
22 goals
LiègeM. Lallemand
M. Lallemand
10 goals
DenderE. Casagolda Collazo
E. Casagolda Collazo
9 goals

Dender missing players

Liège missing players

Dender Liège
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
29 14 3 Played P 3 14 29
13 9 2 Won W 0 5 15
10 5 1 Drew D 2 4 8
6 0 0 Lost L 1 5 6
44 25 6 Scored S 5 22 59
31 7 2 Conceded C 6 15 24
86% 79% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 86%
76% 71% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 79% 79%
55% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 57% 59%
38% 29% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 29% 34%
3% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 10%
55% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 48%
31% 50% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 43% 48%
28% 21% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 17%
 
5.5 5.6 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 8 5.2 5.6
4 3.9 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6 4.9 3.6
2 2.3 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.1 1.4
5 3 1 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
11.2 13.8 16 Shots (avg) S ( 13 11.5 12.1
4.7 5.5 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 5.2 6
27% 26% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 36% 39%
 
8.1 7.1 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 14 7.8 7.1
3.7 3 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 3.1 3
Key stats in First Amateur Division this season:
  • Dender have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Dender have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Liège have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Liège have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in First Amateur Division
  • Liège have the most clean sheets (13) in First Amateur Division
  • Liège have the most clean sheets (5) away in First Amateur Division
  • Liège have the most scored goals (57) in First Amateur Division
  • Liège have the most scored goals in the first half (27) in First Amateur Division
  • Liège have the the best goal difference (+34) in First Amateur Division

  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 28 14 8 6 57 23 14 9 4 1 35 8 14 5 4 5 22 15 34 50
2 Knokke 28 14 6 8 48 33 14 9 2 3 30 18 14 5 4 5 18 15 15 48
3 Dessel Sport 28 13 9 6 47 35 14 9 4 1 29 18 14 4 5 5 18 17 12 48
4 Dender 28 12 10 6 41 30 14 9 5 0 25 7 14 3 5 6 16 23 11 46
5 Olympic Charleroi 28 12 10 6 41 31 14 6 6 2 16 13 14 6 4 4 25 18 10 46
6 Patro Eisden 28 12 10 6 28 21 14 9 5 0 18 5 14 3 5 6 10 16 7 46
7 Sint-Eloois-Winkel 28 12 8 8 40 36 14 8 3 3 23 16 14 4 5 5 17 20 4 44
8 URSL Vise 28 11 6 11 45 34 14 7 4 3 27 13 14 4 2 8 18 21 11 39
9 Heist 28 10 9 9 41 34 14 7 4 3 24 15 14 3 5 6 17 19 7 39
10 Thes Sport 28 10 9 9 35 35 14 5 5 4 17 21 14 5 4 5 18 14 0 39
11 Tienen 28 9 8 11 28 34 14 7 4 3 21 17 14 2 4 8 7 17 -6 35
12 Rupel Boom 28 10 3 15 26 39 14 6 2 6 10 15 14 4 1 9 16 24 -13 33
13 Francs Borains 28 8 8 12 26 29 14 7 4 3 16 8 14 1 4 9 10 21 -3 32
14 Mandel United 28 4 7 17 26 50 14 2 3 9 13 25 14 2 4 8 13 25 -24 19
15 La Louviere Centre 28 2 3 23 13 78 14 1 2 11 6 33 14 1 1 12 7 45 -65 9

Read more about First Amateur Division

The Belgian First Amateur Division is the third highest football league in Belgium. It was created in 2016 following a revolution in the Belgian football league system. It has 16 teams playing a regular season of 30 game weeks. The top four then enter a promotion play-off while three or four teams are relegated.