Soccer match preview: Liège confident before travelling to Knokke

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Competition: Belgium First Amateur Division
Competition: Wed 25.May
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Olivier (29975 seats)

Lots to play for in this match, with Knokke placed 2nd and Liège at 1st. Here's news and statistics!

Insights:
  • Knokke have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Liège have the most scored goals (57) in First Amateur Division

Knokke can neither be promoted or relegated from First Amateur Division. Happy, happy days for Liège who are already winners of the First Amateur Division. This could affect their motivation. One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Liège have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 8-5-6 (win-draw-loss) from 19 matches.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Knokke and Liège.

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Knokke form and stats

29 points is a decent return from 14 First Amateur Division games here at Stadion Olivier for Knokke. The data says 9 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses.

Knokke drew their last game, 3-3 away at Dessel Sport. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

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

The Knokke manager Borm has got the team scoring with 30 from 14 home games in the league. 18 goals have been conceded.

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Liège form and stats

As the visiting team in First Amateur Division matches, Liège have produced an overall stat of 5-4-5 so far.

Liège have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper. It's been 213 minutes since they last conceded in First Amateur Division.

Liège are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the game against Dender.

That result followed a home victory 4-0 versus Dessel Sport.

Liège are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 22 times in 14 away games so far. Liège have conceded 15 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Knokke and Liège have faced off earlier this season: Liège - Knokke 2-1. Numbers for the former five meetings involving these two squads are: one win for Knokke, zero draws and four wins for Liège. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: zero games.

Top Goalscorers

LiègeJ. Perbet
J. Perbet
24 goals
LiègeM. Lallemand
M. Lallemand
13 goals
KnokkeZ. Lambo
Z. Lambo
10 goals

Knokke missing players

Liège missing players

Knokke Liège
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
33 16 5 Played P 5 16 33
14 9 2 Won W 1 6 18
8 3 1 Drew D 3 4 8
11 4 2 Lost L 1 6 7
56 33 8 Scored S 8 26 68
47 23 8 Conceded C 8 19 28
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 80% 94% 88%
76% 88% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 81% 79%
64% 69% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 56% 58%
39% 44% 40% Over 3.5 O 3.5 60% 31% 36%
21% 25% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 12% 12%
58% 69% 40% BTTS BTTS 60% 50% 45%
27% 25% 40% Clean Sheets C S 20% 38% 48%
24% 6% 20% Failed to Score F T 40% 19% 18%
 
6 6 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 9 6 6.2
5.5 4.9 5.8 Corners against (avg) C A 3.8 4.7 3.4
1.2 1.2 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.8 1 1.3
3 2 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
11.6 13.7 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 13.5 12.1 12.7
5.7 6.7 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 5.7 6.5
26% 24% 19% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 33% 36%
 
12.3 13.3 11.5 Shots against (avg) S A 7.5 7.5 6.6
5.2 5.8 5.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.5 2.9 2.8
Key stats in First Amateur Division this season:
  • Knokke have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Knokke haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Liège have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Liège have the most clean sheets (15) in First Amateur Division
  • Liège have the most clean sheets (5) away in First Amateur Division
  • Liège have the most scored goals (57) in First Amateur Division
  • Liège have the most scored goals in the first half (31) in First Amateur Division
  • Liège have the the best goal difference (+34) in First Amateur Division
  • Liège is in the best form (5-0-1) in First Amateur Division

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Liège 28 14 8 6 57 23 14 9 4 1 35 8 14 5 4 5 22 15 34 50
2 Knokke 28 14 6 8 48 33 14 9 2 3 30 18 14 5 4 5 18 15 15 48
3 Dessel Sport 28 13 9 6 47 35 14 9 4 1 29 18 14 4 5 5 18 17 12 48
4 Dender 28 12 10 6 41 30 14 9 5 0 25 7 14 3 5 6 16 23 11 46
5 Olympic Charleroi 28 12 10 6 41 31 14 6 6 2 16 13 14 6 4 4 25 18 10 46
6 Patro Eisden 28 12 10 6 28 21 14 9 5 0 18 5 14 3 5 6 10 16 7 46
7 Sint-Eloois-Winkel 28 12 8 8 40 36 14 8 3 3 23 16 14 4 5 5 17 20 4 44
8 URSL Vise 28 11 6 11 45 34 14 7 4 3 27 13 14 4 2 8 18 21 11 39
9 Heist 28 10 9 9 41 34 14 7 4 3 24 15 14 3 5 6 17 19 7 39
10 Thes Sport 28 10 9 9 35 35 14 5 5 4 17 21 14 5 4 5 18 14 0 39
11 Tienen 28 9 8 11 28 34 14 7 4 3 21 17 14 2 4 8 7 17 -6 35
12 Rupel Boom 28 10 3 15 26 39 14 6 2 6 10 15 14 4 1 9 16 24 -13 33
13 Francs Borains 28 8 8 12 26 29 14 7 4 3 16 8 14 1 4 9 10 21 -3 32
14 Mandel United 28 4 7 17 26 50 14 2 3 9 13 25 14 2 4 8 13 25 -24 19
15 La Louviere Centre 28 2 3 23 13 78 14 1 2 11 6 33 14 1 1 12 7 45 -65 9

Read more about First Amateur Division

The Belgian First Amateur Division is the third highest football league in Belgium. It was created in 2016 following a revolution in the Belgian football league system. It has 16 teams playing a regular season of 30 game weeks. The top four then enter a promotion play-off while three or four teams are relegated.