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Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Excelsior Virton form and stats
F. Kore was the last player to score a league goal for Excelsior Virton and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Excelsior Virton haven't scored in 180 minutes.
The fans are hoping that Excelsior Virton will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the First Division B game against Union Saint-Gilloise (placed 3rd). Ahead of that match, Excelsior Virton lost 0-1 at home to OH Leuven.
The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Excelsior Virton home games with this odds we find three games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 2 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Looking at the victories, 1 match were won by at least two goals.
Last season, Excelsior Virton's league statistics were 15 wins, 9 draws and 6 losses, resulting in a 3rd position in the First Amateur Division. Over these 30 matches they scored 42 goals and conceded 20. Playing at home last season Excelsior Virton managed 7-5-3 (win-draw-lost) with 21 goals and 9 conceded.
SV Roeselare form and stats
It's all red in the travel logs of SV Roeselare, having lost seven matches in a row as the visiting team.
SV Roeselare failed to get anything from their last game, a First Division B home match vs Westerlo (placed 2nd) that ended with defeat 3-5. A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Lokeren.
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for SV Roeselare, as mentioned above. 8 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where SV Roeselare played away with similar odds. This revealed five games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 5 times.
Let's have a look at how SV Roeselare performed last season in the First Division B: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 0 victories, 0 draws and 0 defeats. In total they scored 0 and conceded 0 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 0 - drew 0 and lost 0 with 0/0 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Excelsior Virton - SV Roeselare 3-2. As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's 5 Excelsior Virton victories, 1 draw and 2 SV Roeselare wins. 5 of these games ended with three goals or more, 3 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Couturier 5 goals |  Stélvio 5 goals |   S. Godwin 3 goals |
Excelsior Virton missing players
SV Roeselare missing players
| Excelsior Virton | SV Roeselare | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| 26 | 12 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 18 |
| 12 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 20 | 36 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 60% | 43% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 53% | 43% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 86% | 73% |
| 27% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 43% | 40% |
| 13% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 29% | 27% |
| 27% | 14% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 57% | 60% |
| 47% | 57% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 27% | 29% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 43% | 33% |
| 4.8 | 6.9 | 8 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
| 4.3 | 3.9 | 5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6.1 | 7.1 |
| 2.2 | 2 | 4 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
- All of SV Roeselare's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Excelsior Virton have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Excelsior Virton have scored at least twice as many goals at home as SV Roeselare have scored away.
- Excelsior Virton have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Excelsior Virton haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- SV Roeselare have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- SV Roeselare have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- SV Roeselare have lost all their away matches so far.
- SV Roeselare have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- SV Roeselare 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 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Westerlo | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Lommel United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Lokeren | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 6 | SV Roeselare | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 7 | Excelsior Virton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 8 | OH Leuven | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |