Standard Liège vs Antwerp: Full pre-match guide and statistics

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 16.October
Match begins: 11:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Maurice Dufrasne (27670 seats)

A total of eleven sets of games are played and both Standard Liège and Antwerp are doing great. Bring it on!

Insights:
  • Standard Liège haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Antwerp have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Pro League

Standard Liège and Antwerp should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Standard Liège form and stats

When playing at home in the Pro League, Standard Liège have managed 3 wins, 1 draw and suffered 2 defeats from 6 games.

Standard are returning here after visiting Sporting Charleroi and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Defender Cimirot got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.62/10. Cimirot won 3 of 4 duels.

Before that game, the home loss against RFC Seraing with the scoreline 0-2.

Standard Liège are traveling soon after this match as the Pro League match at Mechelen awaits in three days.

A decent goal production from Standard Liège in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 6 league matches. Standard have conceded 7 in these home matches.

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Antwerp form and stats

As the visiting team matches, Antwerp, who have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Pro League, have produced an overall stat of 4-0-1 so far.

Antwerp are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the game against Sint-Truiden (placed 11th). Bataille was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.95. The defender Bataille hit three key passes and won 7 of 10 duels.

Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Kortrijk's place.

After this away game Antwerp return home for a Pro League game against KV Oostende. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The travelling fans enjoy Antwerp's attacking play in away games, having scored 8 goals in 5 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Antwerp as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Standard Liège-Antwerp H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Standard Liège three wins, Antwerp three wins, four draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). The matches between these clubs have had a tendency to be a bit wild, having seen 7 sending-offs from the last ten duels.

Top Goalscorers

AntwerpV. Janssen
V. Janssen
7 goals
StandardS. Amallah
S. Amallah
4 goals
AntwerpM. Frey
M. Frey
4 goals

Standard Liège missing players

Antwerp missing players

Standard Liège Antwerp
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
11 6 2 Played P 0 5 11
6 3 1 Won W 0 4 10
1 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
4 2 1 Lost L 0 1 1
16 9 4 Scored S 0 8 24
15 7 3 Conceded C 0 3 8
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
73% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 80% 82%
55% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 55%
36% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 18%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 18%
45% 33% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 45%
45% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 60% 55%
9% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4.7 5.3 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.4 4.2
5.6 6.2 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4.2 4.4
3.2 2.5 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.4 1.5
5 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.5 13.7 16.5 Shots (avg) S ( 0 11 12.9
4.5 5.3 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4.2 4.3
33% 28% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 38% 51%
 
13.1 12.3 9 Shots against (avg) S A 0 14.4 11.5
3.9 4 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 3.5
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Antwerp have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Antwerp have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Antwerp have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Pro League
  • Antwerp have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Pro League
  • Antwerp have the most clean sheets (6) in Pro League
  • Antwerp have the the best goal difference (+16) in Pro League
  • Antwerp have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Antwerp haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Standard Liège 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 Antwerp 11 10 0 1 24 8 6 6 0 0 16 5 5 4 0 1 8 3 16 30
2 Genk 11 9 1 1 26 11 6 5 1 0 12 5 5 4 0 1 14 6 15 28
3 Club Brugge 11 7 1 3 22 12 6 4 1 1 13 6 5 3 0 2 9 6 10 22
4 Union Saint-Gilloise 11 7 1 3 19 15 5 4 0 1 8 5 6 3 1 2 11 10 4 22
5 OH Leuven 11 6 2 3 21 18 5 3 0 2 7 9 6 3 2 1 14 9 3 20
6 Standard Liège 11 6 1 4 16 15 6 3 1 2 9 7 5 3 0 2 7 8 1 19
7 Westerlo 11 6 0 5 20 18 5 4 0 1 10 4 6 2 0 4 10 14 2 18
8 Gent 11 5 2 4 20 14 5 2 1 2 9 8 6 3 1 2 11 6 6 17
9 Anderlecht 11 5 1 5 19 12 6 3 1 2 11 6 5 2 0 3 8 6 7 16
10 Sporting Charleroi 11 5 0 6 16 17 6 2 0 4 9 12 5 3 0 2 7 5 -1 15
11 Sint-Truiden 11 3 4 4 10 11 5 1 1 3 5 8 6 2 3 1 5 3 -1 13
12 Mechelen 11 3 2 6 17 21 6 2 1 3 11 12 5 1 1 3 6 9 -4 11
13 KV Oostende 11 3 2 6 12 16 5 2 0 3 5 7 6 1 2 3 7 9 -4 11
14 RFC Seraing 11 3 1 7 11 19 5 0 1 4 1 9 6 3 0 3 10 10 -8 10
15 Kortrijk 11 3 1 7 9 18 5 1 1 3 3 8 6 2 0 4 6 10 -9 10
16 Cercle Brugge 11 2 3 6 10 20 5 1 3 1 4 5 6 1 0 5 6 15 -10 9
17 AS Eupen 11 3 0 8 9 20 6 1 0 5 4 12 5 2 0 3 5 8 -11 9
18 Zulte-Waregem 11 1 2 8 9 25 6 1 0 5 7 18 5 0 2 3 2 7 -16 5

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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.