Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Union Saint-Gilloise & KV Oostende face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Belgian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Union Saint-Gilloise form and stats
Union Saint-Gilloise participated in Belgian Cup the last season, where they reached the round of 32.17 points is a decent return from 8 Pro League games here at Stade Joseph Mariën for Union Saint-Gilloise. The data says 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.
It's back home for Saint-Gilloise, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Standard Liège away with the result 3-2. Burgess, Nieuwkoop and Vanzeir found the net in that victory. Burgess, defender, was given a rating of 7.85/10 in that game, top of the team. Burgess scored one goal and won 10 of 14 duels.
Before that one, a fine away victory at Cappellen. A Belgian Cup match. Union Saint-Gilloise are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 7 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 4, drew 2 and lost 1.
The Saint-Gilloise fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 13 goals in 8 league matches.
KV Oostende form and stats
Last season their Belgian Cup adventure ended in the round of 16.There's been little loot from KV Oostende's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 9 away games in the Pro League. KV Oostende only have 1 win to counter their 6 defeats and 2 draws.
Two away games in a row for KV Oostende, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-6 versus Westerlo. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Westerlo was particularly ugly (0-6). The humiliation is still top of mind. Attacker Atanga got a player rating of 6.55 in the game. "Man of the match" Atanga hit one key pass.
Ahead of that, the Belgian Cup victory away at Thes Sport. We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where KV Oostende played away with similar odds. This revealed 5 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 1 were draw and the home team won as expected 4 times.
Oostende have conceded 22 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Data for the previous ten meetings featuring these two sides are: four wins for Union Saint-Gilloise, three draws and three wins for KV Oostende. Over 2,5 goals: eight times; under 2,5 goals: two games.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Vanzeir 8 goals |  S. Adingra 5 goals |   F. Hornby 5 goals |
Union Saint-Gilloise missing players
KV Oostende missing players
| Union Saint-Gilloise | KV Oostende | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 11 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 7 | 11 | ||
| 56 | 23 | Scored | S | 25 | 47 | ||
| 34 | 16 | Conceded | C | 25 | 43 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 84% | ||
| 76% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 20% | ||
| 68% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 24% | ||
| 4.7 | 4.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.6 | ||
| 4.7 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 5.4 | ||
| 2.3 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 12.5 | 12.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.6 | 11.2 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 5 | ||
| 50% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 29% | ||
| 10.1 | 8.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.8 | 12.7 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 4.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Genk | 17 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 45 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 30 | 46 |
| 2 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 35 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 14 | 13 | 36 |
| 3 | Antwerp | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 30 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 35 |
| 4 | Club Brugge | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 34 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 33 |
| 5 | Gent | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 30 |
| 6 | Westerlo | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 34 | 30 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 4 | 26 |
| 7 | OH Leuven | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 25 |
| 8 | Standard Liège | 16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 25 |
| 9 | Cercle Brugge | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 25 |
| 10 | Sint-Truiden | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | -2 | 23 |
| 11 | Anderlecht | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 20 |
| 12 | Sporting Charleroi | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 22 | 29 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -7 | 19 |
| 13 | Mechelen | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 24 | 30 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -6 | 18 |
| 14 | KV Oostende | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 20 | 37 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 22 | -17 | 17 |
| 15 | AS Eupen | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 24 | 38 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 24 | -14 | 16 |
| 16 | Zulte-Waregem | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 40 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -17 | 13 |
| 17 | Kortrijk | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 33 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -19 | 12 |
| 18 | RFC Seraing | 17 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 33 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 19 | -17 | 11 |
