Life has been a bit difficult for Standard Liège so far, and that also applies to Westerlo. These hardened teams eye some important points here.
- Standard Liège have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Pro League
- Westerlo have the most matches over the total-line (6) in Pro League
Both participants have had plentiful rest since their last competitive action. Let's aim for an energetic game!
Standard Liège form and stats
Standard Liège have played three Pro League home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 1 point from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
A good away victory last time out for Standard Liège, who won 3-1 against AS Eupen (placed 10th). A big relief, as that was the first league win after going winless in six fixtures in a row. Midfielder Kawabe was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.24 (out of ten) in that game. Kawabe scored one goal, served one assist and hit three key passes.
Before that, Standard Liège drew at home versus RWDM.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Standard have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 2 and lost 4.
The lack of attacking qualities in Standard Liège means that they have only scored {1 goals} in 3 league home games, less than half a goal per match.
Westerlo form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Pro League for Westerlo with 1 draw and 2 losses from their first 3 attempts.
This match can not go any worse than the last one, the home defeat versus Antwerp with 0-3 on the scoreboard. Eenoo got a match rating of 7.1 in that game, top player of the team. Eenoo hit three key passes and had 26 successful passes (of 32 total).
Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Cercle Brugge's place.Goal alert! This club have played 5 consecutive league fixtures all featuring three or more than three goals (over 2.5 goals).
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Westerlo have scored 4 goals in 3 league games away.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Standard Liège victories, four draws and four Westerlo wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less. The games between these clubs sometimes lean towards being aggressive, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten duels.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Kawabe 2 goals |  A. Kanga 2 goals |   N. Hautorp Madsen 2 goals |
Standard Liège missing players
Westerlo missing players
| Standard Liège | Westerlo | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 33% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 86% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 86% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 57% | 33% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 71% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 43% | 67% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 4.1 | 3 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2.3 | 3.4 |
| 6.3 | 5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 7 | 6.4 |
| 2.1 | 2.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.3 | 8.7 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 15.3 | 13.1 |
| 3.9 | 3.3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 3.3 |
| 22% | 10% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 44% | 30% |
| 15.6 | 16 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 19.3 | 18.4 |
| 4.6 | 5 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 6.7 | 6.6 |
- All of Westerlo's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Standard Liège have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Standard Liège have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Pro League
- Standard Liège have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Standard Liège have yet to win a game at home.
- Standard Liège haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Westerlo have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Westerlo have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Westerlo have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Westerlo have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Westerlo have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Pro League
- Westerlo have the most matches over the total-line (6) in Pro League
- Westerlo have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Westerlo have yet to win a game.
- Westerlo haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Westerlo is in the worst form (0-0-6)
| 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 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| 2 | Anderlecht | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| 3 | Club Brugge | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 13 | 13 |
| 4 | Cercle Brugge | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | Antwerp | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | Genk | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 11 |
| 7 | Sint-Truiden | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 8 | Mechelen | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| 9 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 10 | AS Eupen | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | -3 | 10 |
| 11 | RWDM | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | -7 | 10 |
| 12 | Standard Liège | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 13 | OH Leuven | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -4 | 6 |
| 14 | Sporting Charleroi | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 4 |
| 15 | Kortrijk | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 | -13 | 2 |
| 16 | Westerlo | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -9 | 1 |
