Antwerp vs Club Brugge: Soccer betting preview

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 13.December
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Bosuilstadion (16649 seats)

A key match in Pro League as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Antwerp in 4th position and Club Brugge placed 2nd, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!

Insights:
  • Antwerp have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals (11) in Pro League

The hosts Antwerp saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Europa League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Tottenham Hotspur.

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Antwerp form and stats

15 points is a decent return from 7 Pro League games here at Bosuilstadion for Antwerp. The data says 4 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses.

Antwerp faced defeat in their previous match, away at Tottenham Hotspur (0-2). A Pro League defeat was the result before that one, 2-4 away at Genk.

Alireza Beiranvand had a busy but productive day in the Tottenham Hotspur match. Despite making eight saves the loss could not be prevented.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Antwerp as they have a new game in only three days, a Pro League match thankfully also at home. Zulte-Waregem are visiting.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (15 in 7 games), Antwerp's attacking play is working. Antwerp have conceded 9 in these home matches.

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Club Brugge form and stats

The away team, who have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Pro League, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 4 wins, 2 draws and only 1 loss in the Pro League.

The Club Brugge goalkeeper Simon Mignolet is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 322 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Club Brugge are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 2-2 draw at Lazio. That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Sint-Truiden in the Pro League.

Simon Mignolet had red hot gloves after the game against Lazio, shaping the outcome of the game with six saves made.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Brugge manager P. Clement as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Mechelen.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Club Brugge are regular goalscorers on their travels. Brugge are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 5 times in 7 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Antwerp two wins, three draws and Club Brugge four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

AntwerpD. Mbokani Bezua
D. Mbokani Bezua
6 goals
Club BruggeK. Diatta
K. Diatta
6 goals
AntwerpL. Refaelov
L. Refaelov
5 goals

Antwerp missing players

Club Brugge missing players

Antwerp Club Brugge
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
15 7 3 Played P 3 7 15
7 4 2 Won W 1 4 9
4 3 1 Drew D 1 2 3
4 0 0 Lost L 1 1 3
28 15 7 Scored S 4 17 30
23 9 5 Conceded C 4 5 11
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 86% 93%
87% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 67%
60% 57% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 71% 60%
53% 57% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 43% 33%
33% 43% 67% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 13%
80% 86% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 57% 47%
7% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 43% 40%
13% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 20%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 2 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.9 1.3
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.4 10.9 15.7 Shots (avg) S ( 9.3 11.6 8.9
5.1 5.4 6.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.3 5.6 3.8
37% 39% 37% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 44% 53%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Antwerp have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Antwerp have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Antwerp haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals (11) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals (5) away in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the most scored goals (17) away in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the the best goal difference (+12) away in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the the best goal difference (+19) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Club Brugge have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

  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 15 9 4 2 35 20 8 5 2 1 21 10 7 4 2 1 14 10 15 31
2 Club Brugge 15 9 3 3 30 11 8 5 1 2 13 6 7 4 2 1 17 5 19 30
3 Beerschot-Wilrijk 15 9 1 5 38 34 8 6 0 2 23 15 7 3 1 3 15 19 4 28
4 Antwerp 15 7 4 4 28 23 7 4 3 0 15 9 8 3 1 4 13 14 5 25
5 Standard Liège 15 6 7 2 19 14 8 3 5 0 11 8 7 3 2 2 8 6 5 25
6 OH Leuven 15 7 4 4 27 25 8 5 2 1 13 9 7 2 2 3 14 16 2 25
7 Sporting Charleroi 15 7 3 5 22 16 8 4 1 3 10 6 7 3 2 2 12 10 6 24
8 Anderlecht 15 5 8 2 25 20 7 3 4 0 10 5 8 2 4 2 15 15 5 23
9 Kortrijk 15 5 5 5 21 21 7 2 2 3 14 15 8 3 3 2 7 6 0 20
10 AS Eupen 15 4 8 3 18 21 7 2 3 2 9 11 8 2 5 1 9 10 -3 20
11 KV Oostende 15 5 4 6 20 19 8 4 2 2 16 10 7 1 2 4 4 9 1 19
12 Cercle Brugge 15 6 0 9 22 27 7 3 0 4 13 14 8 3 0 5 9 13 -5 18
13 Gent 15 5 1 9 22 25 7 2 1 4 11 12 8 3 0 5 11 13 -3 16
14 Zulte-Waregem 15 4 3 8 21 30 8 1 2 5 10 19 7 3 1 3 11 11 -9 15
15 Waasland-Beveren 15 4 3 8 21 30 8 2 1 5 10 16 7 2 2 3 11 14 -9 15
16 Mechelen 15 3 5 7 22 28 7 1 2 4 12 14 8 2 3 3 10 14 -6 14
17 Sint-Truiden 15 2 5 8 17 28 7 2 3 2 8 7 8 0 2 6 9 21 -11 11
18 Royal Excel Mouscron 15 2 4 9 9 25 7 1 2 4 4 8 8 1 2 5 5 17 -16 10

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.