Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Zulte-Waregem & Sint-Truiden face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Belgian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It should be mentioned that Sint-Truiden play their home matches on artifical turf, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on grass. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Sint-Truiden on grass are 16 victories, 10 draws and 12 defeats from 38 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 43-42. You can compare this with overall results below.
Zulte-Waregem have less rest than Sint-Truiden in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Pro League game only three days ago. This match was also played here at Elindus Arena. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Sint-Truiden have had more rest.
Zulte-Waregem form and stats
Zulte-Waregem participated in Belgian Cup the last season, where they reached the round of 16.Zulte-Waregem's struggle is real here at Elindus Arena with only 10 points collected from 10 Pro League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-1-6.
Zulte-Waregem's last game was hosting Mechelen and winning 2-0. The goalie Bossut was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.61 out of ten. Bossut topped it up with a clean sheet.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Sint-Truiden (0-2).There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Zulte-Waregem as they are travelling to their away game against Genk in the Pro League. That match is three days after this one.
Zulte-Waregem have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Elindus Arena with 17 goals in 10 league matches. Neutralizing the opposition is a challenge, Zulte-Waregem having conceded 28 goals here at Elindus Arena so far.
Sint-Truiden form and stats
Sint-Truiden was sent out of Belgian Cup in the round of 32 last season.4 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Sint-Truiden playing as the away team in the Pro League this season.
Sint-Truiden are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Standard Liege. Which player has scored three matches in a row for the away team? The correct answer is Hayashi and that is solid stuff! Hashioka got a match rating of 7.82 in that game, top player of the team. Hashioka hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that, Sint-Truiden secured a home win against Zulte-Waregem with the score 2-0.Sint-Truiden have another fixture that requires travelling in just three sleeps, a Pro League match versus AS Eupen. A rough calendar for the visiting team!
The visiting Sint-Truiden have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 11 goals from 10 games.
Head 2 Head
Zulte-Waregem-Sint-Truiden H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Zulte-Waregem four wins, Sint-Truiden five wins, one draw. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). The matches between these sides sometimes lean towards being hot-tempered, having seen 5 red cards from the last ten encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  G. Bruno 8 goals |  D. Hayashi 6 goals |   J. Vossen 5 goals |
Zulte-Waregem missing players
Sint-Truiden missing players
| Zulte-Waregem | Sint-Truiden | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Won | W | 7 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | ||
| 37 | 18 | Scored | S | 24 | 37 | ||
| 47 | 29 | Conceded | C | 12 | 24 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 88% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 72% | ||
| 60% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 48% | ||
| 40% | 55% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 36% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 38% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 36% | ||
| 4.8 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 4.8 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 4.3 | ||
| 2.8 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.6 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 10 | 11.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 11.9 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.4 | ||
| 38% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 50% | ||
| 13 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.6 | 9.2 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 2.8 | ||
| 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 | 19 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 48 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 31 | 49 |
| 2 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 19 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 41 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 15 | 18 | 42 |
| 3 | Antwerp | 19 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 35 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 39 |
| 4 | Club Brugge | 19 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 24 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 34 |
| 5 | Gent | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 31 |
| 6 | Standard Liege | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 30 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 30 |
| 7 | Westerlo | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 38 | 33 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 5 | 30 |
| 8 | Sint-Truiden | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 27 |
| 9 | OH Leuven | 19 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 33 | 30 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 3 | 26 |
| 10 | Cercle Brugge | 19 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 25 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | -1 | 26 |
| 11 | Anderlecht | 19 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 27 | 28 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 14 | -1 | 23 |
| 12 | Sporting Charleroi | 18 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 24 | 31 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 16 | -7 | 22 |
| 13 | Mechelen | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 25 | 33 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 17 | -8 | 19 |
| 14 | AS Eupen | 19 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 26 | 40 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 24 | -14 | 19 |
| 15 | Kortrijk | 19 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 35 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 17 | -17 | 18 |
| 16 | KV Oostende | 19 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 21 | 42 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 25 | -21 | 17 |
| 17 | Zulte-Waregem | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 25 | 42 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -17 | 16 |
| 18 | RFC Seraing | 19 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 18 | 35 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 20 | -17 | 14 |
