The home team stadium regulars bank on a victory in this match, and the home advantage might do the trick versus a stumbling visitor. Excelsior Virton are in 8th spot while the guesting Club Brugge II worry at 9th.
- Excelsior Virton have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in First Division B
- Club Brugge II have yet to win a game away.
Both teams have had a decent time to rest since their previous effort on the pitch. Let's aim for an enthusiastic fixture!
Excelsior Virton form and stats
Three First Division B home games done for Excelsior Virton, who are not happy collecting 2 points from these matches.
The followers hope that Excelsior will fight back in this game, putting things right after the 1-2 away defeat in the Belgian Cup fixture against Dessel Sport. Up until that game this team had gone six consecutive league matches without being beaten.
Ahead of that match, Excelsior Virton lost 1-2 at home to Beerschot-Wilrijk.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Excelsior Virton have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 6 matches with the results: Won 2, drawn 4 and lost 0.
Excelsior have conceded 4 in these home matches.
Club Brugge II form and stats
Still no away game victory in the First Division B for Club Brugge II with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts. Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in 16 away games in a row.
There were no winners in Club Brugge II's previous match, the home game that ended 2-2 vs Waasland-Beveren (placed 5th). As mentioned above, Brugge drew the match against Waasland-Beveren. Manager Hayen brought on Talbi to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to RSC Anderlecht II.Both teams to score at least one goal each? This team's most recent statistics suggest that, having played 6 league matches in a row with one or more goals from each team.
It's early days yet, but Club Brugge II has scored 2 and conceded 4 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  S. Anne 3 goals |  C. Talbi 3 goals | A. Engels 2 goals |
Excelsior Virton missing players
Club Brugge II missing players
| Excelsior Virton | Club Brugge II | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 11 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 83% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3 | 3.7 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4 | 4.4 |
| 4.2 | 3.7 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6.5 | 5.8 |
| 3.3 | 2.7 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.5 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 6 | 3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 8 | 7 |
| 3 | 2.7 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 39% | 38% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 47% |
| 10.8 | 11.3 | 14 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 18.5 | 16.2 |
| 4.7 | 4.3 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 8.5 | 7.2 |
- All of Club Brugge II's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Excelsior Virton's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Club Brugge II have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Club Brugge II have scored in all their matches so far.
- Club Brugge II have yet to win a game away.
- Club Brugge II haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Excelsior Virton have scored in all their matches so far.
- Excelsior Virton have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in First Division B
- Excelsior Virton have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Excelsior Virton have yet to win a game at home.
- Excelsior Virton 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 | Lierse Kempenzonen | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 12 |
| 2 | RSC Anderlecht II | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 3 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 4 | Lommel United | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Waasland-Beveren | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 9 |
| 6 | Standard Liege II | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 7 | RWDM | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | Excelsior Virton | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 9 | Club Brugge II | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 10 | KRC Genk II | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -2 | 5 |
| 11 | Deinze | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -5 | 5 |
| 12 | Dender | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -4 | 4 |
