Home advantage could prove decisive in RFC Seraing - Lommel United battle

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Competition: Belgium First Division B
Competition: Sun 25.October
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade du Pairay (14326 seats)

RFC Seraing have performed better than Lommel United so far this season, but every game starts at 0-0. Here's all you need to know about the upcoming game:

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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RFC Seraing form and stats

RFC Seraing, who have the most scored goals (25) in First Division B, must be fairly happy with 6 points from their first three First Division B games here at Stade du Pairay.

It's back home for RFC Seraing, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating RWDM away with the result 4-3. A. Al Badaoui, G. Mikautadze (2) and A. Bernier found the net in that victory.

An impressive turnaround for Seraing in the match against RWDM as a 0-2 deficit was completely turned around to a 4-3 win. A. Bernier scored the final goal. A goal frenzy last time out for RFC Seraing, with a total of 7 goals in the match against RWDM. Fun stuff to watch!

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from RFC Seraing's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played one game, won zero matches, drawn one and lost zero.

Seraing are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Stade du Pairay in their league games, having scored an impressive 9 goals in 3 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the RFC Seraing defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Lommel United form and stats

Lommel United are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the First Division B, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).

There were no winners in Lommel's previous match, a First Division B home game that ended 1-1 vs Westerlo (placed 5th). That result followed a home victory 3-2 versus Zelzate in the Belgian Cup.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Lommel United playing away, we found three games. Results were one away win, one draw and one home win.

Lommel has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 5 goals from 3 games. Lommel have conceded 6 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Lommel United - Seraing 3-5. Last seven meetings between the teams: RFC Seraing won two, Lommel United won two and three draws. three games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

SeraingG. Mikautadze
G. Mikautadze
14 goals
RFC SeraingA. Al Badaoui Sabri
A. Al Badaoui Sabri
3 goals
Lommel UnitedA. Zaroury
A. Zaroury
3 goals

RFC Seraing missing players

Lommel United missing players

RFC Seraing Lommel United
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
7 3 2 Played P 1 3 7
5 2 1 Won W 0 1 2
0 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
2 1 1 Lost L 1 1 3
25 9 3 Scored S 2 5 13
16 5 4 Conceded C 4 6 16
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 86%
86% 67% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 71%
86% 67% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 67% 57%
86% 67% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 33% 43%
86% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 86%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 14%
14% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.7 2.3 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2.3 3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
80 36 20 Total Shots T S 11 32 86
43 16 8 Shots on Target S O 5 14 38
58% 56% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 36% 34%
Key stats in First Division B this season:
  • All of RFC Seraing's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Lommel United has the most conceded goals in the second half (10) in First Division B
  • Lommel United has the most dropped points from leading position (8) in First Division B
  • Lommel United have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Lommel United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • RFC Seraing has the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in First Division B
  • RFC Seraing has the most matches over the total-line (6) in First Division B
  • RFC Seraing has the most points from losing position (9) in First Division B
  • RFC Seraing has the most scored goals (25) in First Division B
  • RFC Seraing has the most scored goals (9) at home in First Division B
  • RFC Seraing has the most scored goals in the first half (10) in First Division B
  • RFC Seraing has the most scored goals in the second half (15) in First Division B
  • RFC Seraing has the the best goal difference (+4) at home in First Division B
  • RFC Seraing has the the best goal difference (+9) in First Division B
  • RFC Seraing have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • RFC Seraing haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • RFC Seraing is in the best form (4-0-2)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 RFC Seraing 7 5 0 2 25 16 3 2 0 1 9 5 4 3 0 1 16 11 9 15
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 7 4 2 1 13 8 3 2 1 0 7 4 4 2 1 1 6 4 5 14
3 Deinze 7 3 2 2 10 10 4 2 1 1 5 5 3 1 1 1 5 5 0 11
4 Lommel United 7 2 2 3 13 16 4 1 1 2 8 10 3 1 1 1 5 6 -3 8
5 Westerlo 5 1 4 0 5 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 1 3 0 5 3 2 7
6 Lierse Kempenzonen 7 2 1 4 11 15 4 2 0 2 8 10 3 0 1 2 3 5 -4 7
7 RWDM 6 2 0 4 10 11 4 2 0 2 8 6 2 0 0 2 2 5 -1 6
8 Club Brugge II 6 0 3 3 6 14 3 0 3 0 4 4 3 0 0 3 2 10 -8 3

Read more about First Division B

The First Division B is the second highest league in Belgian football. It replaced the Belgian Second Division in 2016. It has eight teams playing a league in two stages, “opening” and “closing”. Each stage has each team playing 14 fixtures and the winner of each qualify for promotion play-offs.