Pro League preview with statistics: Kortrijk welcomes Anderlecht to Guldensporenstadion

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 17.Sep
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Guldensporenstadion (9399 seats)

Scrambling Kortrijk will hope to pull off a surprise win when they host high-flying Anderlecht in the upcoming league round. It’s 16th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have so-so confidence.

Insights:
  • Kortrijk have the most conceded goals (17) in Pro League
  • Anderlecht haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Kortrijk form and stats

Three Pro League home games done for Kortrijk, who are not happy collecting 1 point from these matches.

In their previous game, the manager Still led his Kortrijk to a defeat away at OH Leuven. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Guldensporenstadion. Midfielder Kadri was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.94 (out of ten) in that game. Kadri hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 5 of 5 times and had 59 successful passes (of 68 total).

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

Kortrijk aren't scoring a lot here at Guldensporenstadion in the league, with only {2 goals} from 3 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Kortrijk defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Anderlecht form and stats

Anderlecht are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Pro League, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Genk (placed 9th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 1-1. The draw against Genk came from a losing position. The Anderlecht manager Riemer brought on Amuzu as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level. Defender Debast was the best team player with a rating of 7.42. Debast won 3 of 6 duels.

That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Sporting Charleroi.

The attacking power of Anderlecht when travelling is not overwhelming with 2 goals scored from 3 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Anderlecht have put together a streak of 5 consecutive matches without losing (3-2-0) when playing Kortrijk.

Top Goalscorers

KortrijkA. Kadri
A. Kadri
2 goals
AnderlechtF. Amuzu
F. Amuzu
2 goals
AnderlechtK. Dolberg
K. Dolberg
2 goals

Kortrijk missing players

Anderlecht missing players

Kortrijk Anderlecht
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
6 3 0 Played P 0 3 6
0 0 0 Won W 0 1 4
1 1 0 Drew D 0 1 1
5 2 0 Lost L 0 1 1
4 2 0 Scored S 0 2 7
17 5 0 Conceded C 0 3 5
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
83% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 67%
67% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 33%
50% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 50%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 33%
50% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 17%
 
3.2 4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.7 4
7.8 11 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5.3 5.2
2.5 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 4.7 2.7
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.2 13.3 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 8.3 12.3
3.7 3.7 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3 4.5
18% 18% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 22% 26%
 
18.7 17.3 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 12.7 13
6.7 6 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 3.8
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Anderlecht haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Kortrijk have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Kortrijk have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Kortrijk have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Kortrijk have the most conceded goals (17) in Pro League
  • Kortrijk have the most conceded goals in the second half (10) in Pro League
  • Kortrijk have the the worst goal difference (-13) in Pro League
  • Kortrijk have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Kortrijk have yet to win a game.
  • Kortrijk 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 Gent 5 4 1 0 11 6 3 2 1 0 7 5 2 2 0 0 4 1 5 13
2 Anderlecht 6 4 1 1 7 5 3 3 0 0 5 2 3 1 1 1 2 3 2 13
3 Cercle Brugge 6 4 0 2 7 3 3 2 0 1 4 2 3 2 0 1 3 1 4 12
4 Club Brugge 5 3 1 1 15 4 2 1 1 0 8 2 3 2 0 1 7 2 11 10
5 Mechelen 6 3 1 2 9 5 3 2 0 1 5 1 3 1 1 1 4 4 4 10
6 Union Saint-Gilloise 5 3 1 1 10 7 3 2 1 0 9 3 2 1 0 1 1 4 3 10
7 AS Eupen 6 3 1 2 9 10 3 1 1 1 5 8 3 2 0 1 4 2 -1 10
8 Antwerp 5 2 2 1 10 4 2 2 0 0 7 0 3 0 2 1 3 4 6 8
9 Genk 5 2 2 1 6 2 3 0 2 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 5 0 4 8
10 Sint-Truiden 6 2 2 2 5 6 3 1 0 2 1 3 3 1 2 0 4 3 -1 8
11 RWDM 5 2 1 2 5 13 2 1 0 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 4 9 -8 7
12 OH Leuven 6 1 2 3 8 12 3 1 1 1 5 3 3 0 1 2 3 9 -4 5
13 Sporting Charleroi 6 0 4 2 4 7 3 0 3 0 3 3 3 0 1 2 1 4 -3 4
14 Standard Liège 6 0 3 3 3 6 3 0 1 2 1 3 3 0 2 1 2 3 -3 3
15 Westerlo 6 0 1 5 7 13 3 0 0 3 3 7 3 0 1 2 4 6 -6 1
16 Kortrijk 6 0 1 5 4 17 3 0 1 2 2 5 3 0 0 3 2 12 -13 1

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The First Division A is the top league of the football pyramid in Belgium, founded in 1895. It was earlier known as the Belgian Pro League. The season runs from July to May with 16 teams each playing 30 fixtures. The top six in the league table then play a championship playoff, the bottom team is relegated and places #7 to #15 have a Europa League playoff.