Sports betting insights: Antwerp vs Club Brugge - predictions and stats

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 14.May
Match begins: 11:30 (UTC)
Venue: Bosuilstadion (16649 seats)

Antwerp and Club Brugge are both high-flying in the Pro League with their 3rd and 4th spots respectively. Let's hope for a wonderful game!

Insights:
  • Antwerp have the fewest conceded goals (26) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Antwerp is in the 3rd league table position and will remain there regardless of what happens for the rest of the season. Club Brugge have already sealed their fate; they will finish in 4th place no matter what happens.

Both contenders have had time to rest since their previous effort on the pitch. Let's agree to expect an enthusiastic game!

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Antwerp form and stats

Antwerp are steadily winning Pro League games and points here at Bosuilstadion. 13 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats is the summary from 17 games. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of six straight victories regardless of arena.

Antwerp's last game was hosting Genk and winning 2-1. Alderweireld, defender, was given a rating of 7.82/10 in that game, top of the team. Alderweireld scored one goal and won 1 of 2 duels.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Union Saint-Gilloise and winning 2-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Antwerp handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

It should be taken into account that a glance at the 14 most recent league games shows that 11 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored).

Antwerp can score goals in their home matches. After 17 league matches they have found the net 36 times. From these home matches, Antwerp have conceded only 11 goals.

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Club Brugge form and stats

The visitors are W6-D5-L6 on the road this term. That's in the Pro League.

Brugge's previous game was their home loss versus Union Saint-Gilloise (1-2). Which player has beaten the opponent goalie three matches in a row for the away team? The correct answer is Vanaken and that is quite the feat! Vanaken got a match rating of 7.93 in that game, top player of the team. Vanaken scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 64 successful passes (of 78 total).

Prior to that match, the Club Brugge manager Demil faced defeat when travelling to Genk and losing 1-3.

Look out: 8 of the latest 10 league matches featuring this club have had only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting).

Club Brugge have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 17 league away games 21 goals have been scored. Club Brugge have conceded 21 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Club Brugge have put together a streak of 8 consecutive matches without defeat (4-4-0) when facing Antwerp.

The former H2H match ended Antwerp - Club Brugge 0-0, earlier this season. The games between these sides have had a tendency to be "violent", having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

AntwerpV. Janssen
V. Janssen
16 goals
Club BruggeF. Jutlgà Blanc
F. Jutlgà Blanc
13 goals
Club BruggeH. Vanaken
H. Vanaken
12 goals

Antwerp missing players

Club Brugge missing players

Antwerp Club Brugge
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
36 18 5 Played P 5 18 36
24 14 4 Won W 0 6 16
6 2 0 Drew D 1 5 11
6 2 1 Lost L 4 7 9
63 38 13 Scored S 4 22 63
27 12 7 Conceded C 13 24 41
92% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
72% 72% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 78% 89%
44% 56% 80% Over 2.5 O 2.5 80% 61% 58%
19% 28% 60% Over 3.5 O 3.5 60% 28% 31%
14% 22% 40% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
33% 39% 80% BTTS BTTS 60% 44% 50%
56% 56% 20% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 36%
19% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 40% 33% 19%
 
4.9 5.3 3.8 Corners for (avg) C F 4.8 5.9 6.5
4.1 3.6 4 Corners against (avg) C A 3.4 3.8 3.4
1.6 1.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 2.5 2.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
13.4 14.8 13.4 Shots (avg) S ( 11.4 12.2 15.3
4.8 5.1 6.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.8 3.8 4.5
36% 42% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 32% 39%
 
9.6 7.7 8.8 Shots against (avg) S A 9.8 11.3 10.6
2.9 2.7 2.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.8 4.5 3.7
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.
  • Antwerp have the fewest conceded goals (11) at home in Pro League
  • Antwerp have the fewest conceded goals (26) in Pro League
  • Antwerp have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Pro League
  • Antwerp have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Pro League
  • Antwerp have the most clean sheets (10) at home in Pro League
  • Antwerp have the most clean sheets (20) in Pro League
  • Antwerp have the most matches under the total-line (20) in Pro League
  • Antwerp is in the best form (6-0-0) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  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 34 23 6 5 78 37 17 14 1 2 44 15 17 9 5 3 34 22 41 75
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 34 23 6 5 70 41 17 13 2 2 33 16 17 10 4 3 37 25 29 75
3 Antwerp 34 22 6 6 59 26 17 13 2 2 36 11 17 9 4 4 23 15 33 72
4 Club Brugge 34 16 11 7 61 36 17 10 6 1 40 15 17 6 5 6 21 21 25 59
5 Gent 34 16 8 10 64 38 17 9 4 4 28 16 17 7 4 6 36 22 26 56
6 Standard Liège 34 16 7 11 58 45 17 10 3 4 34 17 17 6 4 7 24 28 13 55
7 Westerlo 34 14 9 11 61 53 17 8 4 5 40 26 17 6 5 6 21 27 8 51
8 Cercle Brugge 34 13 11 10 50 46 17 8 7 2 31 18 17 5 4 8 19 28 4 50
9 OH Leuven 34 13 9 12 56 48 17 7 5 5 29 24 17 6 4 7 27 24 8 48
10 Sporting Charleroi 34 14 6 14 45 52 17 7 2 8 23 27 17 7 4 6 22 25 -7 48
11 Anderlecht 34 13 7 14 49 46 17 6 4 7 27 23 17 7 3 7 22 23 3 46
12 Sint-Truiden 34 11 9 14 37 40 17 6 4 7 20 19 17 5 5 7 17 21 -3 42
13 Mechelen 34 11 7 16 49 63 17 7 6 4 29 27 17 4 1 12 20 36 -14 40
14 Kortrijk 34 8 7 19 37 61 17 4 5 8 16 29 17 4 2 11 21 32 -24 31
15 AS Eupen 34 7 7 20 40 75 17 4 4 9 22 33 17 3 3 11 18 42 -35 28
16 Zulte-Waregem 34 6 9 19 50 78 17 3 4 10 27 46 17 3 5 9 23 32 -28 27
17 KV Oostende 34 7 6 21 37 76 17 5 1 11 18 33 17 2 5 10 19 43 -39 27
18 RFC Seraing 34 5 5 24 28 68 17 1 4 12 8 29 17 4 1 12 20 39 -40 20

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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.