Open game expected at Bosuilstadion: Antwerp vs Club Brugge preview

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 05.February
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Bosuilstadion (16649 seats)

Antwerp and Club Brugge are both successful in the Pro League with their 3rd and 4th spots respectively. This could be a great match!

Insights:
  • Antwerp have the most clean sheets (11) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge have the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Pro League

The hosts Antwerp saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Belgian Cup. That game was an away game at Union Saint-Gilloise, so at least Antwerp are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Antwerp form and stats

9-1-1 is the performance here at Bosuilstadion so far in the Pro League, giving Antwerp a total of 28 from their 11 games here. Outstanding results! The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Bosuilstadion.

The followers hope that Antwerp will fight back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Belgian Cup fixture against Union Saint-Gilloise.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Anderlecht that finished 0-0.

Goals decide football matches and Antwerp are scoring many of them at home; 26 on target from 11 league matches. Antwerp are not conceding a lot of goals here at Bosuilstadion in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 11 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Club Brugge form and stats

5-2-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Club Brugge in their Pro League matches away.

Two travels in a row for Club Brugge, whose coach Parker could celebrate last time after the win against Zulte-Waregem. Hooray; their first win in the league after seven matches not winning. Midfielder Vanaken was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.32. Vanaken scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 38 successful passes (of 46 total).

A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting Sporting Charleroi.

Sports betting fact: Both teams have scored at least one goal in 9 of this club's latest 10 league games.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Club Brugge have scored 16 goals in 11 league games away. 15 goals have been conceded by Brugge in these games.

Head 2 Head

Club Brugge have avoided a loss in the last 7 matches (4-3-0) against Antwerp.

The most up to date archived result between these teams is the Club Brugge - Antwerp 2-2 played earlier this season. The games between these sides have sometimes been hostile, having seen 6 red cards from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

AntwerpV. Janssen
V. Janssen
14 goals
Club BruggeH. Vanaken
H. Vanaken
7 goals

Antwerp missing players

Club Brugge missing players

Antwerp Club Brugge
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
23 11 4 Played P 4 11 23
14 9 3 Won W 0 5 11
4 1 0 Drew D 1 2 7
5 1 1 Lost L 3 4 5
42 26 11 Scored S 3 16 42
23 9 6 Conceded C 10 15 29
91% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
78% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 96%
57% 64% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 64% 65%
26% 36% 75% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 27% 35%
17% 27% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 9%
39% 45% 75% BTTS BTTS 50% 55% 61%
48% 55% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 27% 26%
22% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 18% 13%
 
4.8 4.8 4.2 Corners for (avg) C F 4.8 5.5 5.7
4.2 4 3.8 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 3.7 3.3
1.8 1.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 2.5 2.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
13 14.6 13.8 Shots (avg) S ( 9.8 11.4 15.1
4.8 4.8 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.8 2.9 3.8
38% 49% 42% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 50% 48%
 
10.4 8.5 9 Shots against (avg) S A 10.2 11.5 10.6
3.5 3 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.6 4
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Antwerp have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Antwerp have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Antwerp have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Pro League
  • Antwerp have the most clean sheets (11) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge have the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge 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 Genk 23 19 2 2 57 20 12 11 1 0 33 9 11 8 1 2 24 11 37 59
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 23 16 4 3 46 24 11 8 2 1 19 8 12 8 2 2 27 16 22 52
3 Antwerp 23 14 4 5 42 23 11 9 1 1 26 9 12 5 3 4 16 14 19 46
4 Club Brugge 23 11 7 5 42 29 12 6 5 1 26 14 11 5 2 4 16 15 13 40
5 Gent 23 11 5 7 39 24 11 6 3 2 18 10 12 5 2 5 21 14 15 38
6 Standard Liege 23 11 4 8 37 29 12 7 2 3 25 12 11 4 2 5 12 17 8 37
7 Westerlo 23 10 4 9 44 39 12 6 2 4 28 17 11 4 2 5 16 22 5 34
8 Cercle Brugge 23 9 6 8 32 32 11 5 4 2 19 12 12 4 2 6 13 20 0 33
9 Sint-Truiden 23 8 8 7 24 25 11 3 3 5 10 14 12 5 5 2 14 11 -1 32
10 OH Leuven 23 8 7 8 37 34 11 4 3 4 17 16 12 4 4 4 20 18 3 31
11 Anderlecht 23 8 4 11 31 32 12 4 2 6 18 17 11 4 2 5 13 15 -1 28
12 Sporting Charleroi 22 8 3 11 28 35 11 4 1 6 14 17 11 4 2 5 14 18 -7 27
13 Mechelen 22 7 4 11 30 40 12 6 3 3 23 19 10 1 1 8 7 21 -10 25
14 Kortrijk 23 6 4 13 26 44 12 3 3 6 11 22 11 3 1 7 15 22 -18 22
15 AS Eupen 23 6 3 14 29 47 11 3 1 7 12 19 12 3 2 7 17 28 -18 21
16 Zulte-Waregem 23 5 5 13 30 48 12 3 2 7 19 31 11 2 3 6 11 17 -18 20
17 KV Oostende 23 5 3 15 25 51 11 4 0 7 13 22 12 1 3 8 12 29 -26 18
18 RFC Seraing 23 4 3 16 21 44 11 0 2 9 4 17 12 4 1 7 17 27 -23 15

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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.