Soccer game preview: Home supporters with big optimism before Anderlecht - OH Leuven

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 31.October
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Lotto Park (22500 seats)

A victory to the home team is anticipated from this match if the league table is a way to look into the future. The Anderlecht club members are positive that the gap between 6th and OH Leuven's 15th place in the table will be visible on the grass.

Insights:
  • Anderlecht have the most scored goals (17) at home in Pro League
  • OH Leuven have yet to win a game away.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Anderlecht form and stats

Anderlecht have played 6 Pro League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).

A strong away win for Anderlecht against La Louviere the last match, as W. Hoedt (2), B. Raman, J. Zirkzee (2) and L. Refaelov (2) were on target. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Anderlecht played a great game against La Louviere and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

Before that game, the 4-2 home victory against Beerschot-Wilrijk.

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 Anderlecht home games with this odds we find seven games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in four wins, three draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, three matches were won by at least two goals.

Goals are plentiful at Lotto Park in the league this season as Anderlecht has scored 17 goals here in 6 home games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Anderlecht defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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OH Leuven form and stats

OH Leuven have only collected 4 points from their away games in the Pro League, after 0-4-2 (6 played). Two points from the last two away games for Leuven, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

Two travels in a row for Leuven, whose manager M. Brys could celebrate last time after the Belgian Cup win against Lierse Kempenzonen. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager M. Brys when S. Kaba scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 46th minute.

Before that, Leuven secured a home win against Sint-Truiden with the score 4-1.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where OH Leuven played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.

Leuven have scored 6 goals on their travels this season, from 6 away games in the league. For OH Leuven, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Anderlecht six wins, two draws and OH Leuven two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

AnderlechtB. Raman
B. Raman
4 goals
AnderlechtJ. Zirkzee
J. Zirkzee
4 goals
AnderlechtS. Gómez Martín
S. Gómez Martín
3 goals

Anderlecht missing players

OH Leuven missing players

Anderlecht OH Leuven
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
12 6 2 Played P 3 6 12
5 3 2 Won W 0 0 2
5 2 0 Drew D 2 4 7
2 1 0 Lost L 1 2 3
25 17 7 Scored S 3 6 15
16 9 2 Conceded C 5 12 20
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
83% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 92%
58% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 50%
42% 50% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 50% 42%
17% 33% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
75% 83% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 67% 75%
17% 17% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 8%
8% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 33% 25%
 
5.3 6.3 7 Corners for (avg) C F 6.3 5.2 4.7
3.9 3.3 3 Corners against (avg) C A 7.7 6.2 5.8
2 2.2 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.5 2.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 2 2 3
 
15.2 16.3 22 Shots (avg) S ( 13.7 12.7 13.8
5.1 6.2 8.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.7 5.2
41% 46% 41% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 21% 24%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • All of Anderlecht's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of OH Leuven's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Anderlecht have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Anderlecht have scored at least twice as many goals at home as OH Leuven have scored away.
  • Anderlecht have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Anderlecht have the most scored goals (17) at home in Pro League
  • Anderlecht haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • OH Leuven have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • OH Leuven have yet to win a game away.
  • OH Leuven haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Union Saint-Gilloise 12 8 1 3 27 13 6 4 0 2 13 6 6 4 1 1 14 7 14 25
2 Club Brugge 12 6 5 1 21 14 6 3 3 0 12 6 6 3 2 1 9 8 7 23
3 Antwerp 12 6 3 3 22 16 6 3 2 1 10 7 6 3 1 2 12 9 6 21
4 AS Eupen 12 6 2 4 23 17 6 2 1 3 9 10 6 4 1 1 14 7 6 20
5 Mechelen 12 6 2 4 21 21 6 4 1 1 14 9 6 2 1 3 7 12 0 20
6 Anderlecht 12 5 5 2 25 16 6 3 2 1 17 9 6 2 3 1 8 7 9 20
7 Sporting Charleroi 12 5 5 2 22 14 6 2 2 2 8 6 6 3 3 0 14 8 8 20
8 Kortrijk 12 5 3 4 15 14 6 3 2 1 9 6 6 2 1 3 6 8 1 18
9 Gent 12 5 2 5 21 13 6 4 1 1 16 7 6 1 1 4 5 6 8 17
10 Genk 12 5 2 5 21 20 6 3 1 2 12 8 6 2 1 3 9 12 1 17
11 KV Oostende 12 5 2 5 16 20 6 3 1 2 8 9 6 2 1 3 8 11 -4 17
12 Sint-Truiden 12 4 3 5 13 18 6 1 2 3 7 11 6 3 1 2 6 7 -5 15
13 Standard Liege 12 4 3 5 13 20 6 1 2 3 7 11 6 3 1 2 6 9 -7 15
14 Zulte-Waregem 12 3 4 5 19 26 6 1 2 3 9 15 6 2 2 2 10 11 -7 13
15 OH Leuven 12 2 7 3 15 20 6 2 3 1 9 8 6 0 4 2 6 12 -5 13
16 RFC Seraing 12 4 0 8 16 24 6 3 0 3 11 9 6 1 0 5 5 15 -8 12
17 Cercle Brugge 12 2 3 7 13 19 6 0 2 4 4 10 6 2 1 3 9 9 -6 9
18 Beerschot-Wilrijk 12 0 2 10 9 27 6 0 0 6 0 10 6 0 2 4 9 17 -18 2

Read more about Pro League

The First Division A is the top league of the football pyramid in Belgium, founded in 1895. It was earlier known as the Belgian Pro League. The season runs from July to May with 16 teams each playing 30 fixtures. The top six in the league table then play a championship playoff, the bottom team is relegated and places #7 to #15 have a Europa League playoff.