Pro League: AS Eupen - KV Oostende pre-match guide and facts

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 10.April
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion am Kehrweg (8363 seats)

AS Eupen are impatient to get the points at their own arena in this fixture vs KV Oostende.

Insights:
  • AS Eupen have the fewest clean sheets (1) at home in Pro League
  • KV Oostende have the fewest scored goals (13) away in Pro League

AS Eupen are staying put; they can neither be promoted or relegated this season and are fighting only for positions. For Oostende most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

This should be an interesting fixture with lots of action and bustle as both sides are well refreshed since they last played a game. Get this show on the road!

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AS Eupen form and stats

With 4 Pro League wins, 4 draws and 8 defeats from their home games, AS Eupen are certainly not brimming with confidence.

AS Eupen are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-5 away versus Genk. Agbadou, defender, was given a rating of 6.81/10 in that game, top of the team. Agbadou won 4 of 5 duels.

In the match before that, Eupen hosted Mechelen and drew the game 1-1.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how AS Eupen have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won two, drawn one and lost one.

Eupen has scored 18 league goals at home this season, in 16 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 27 goals have been conceded. AS Eupen has at home met teams with this table position (low), four times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 3 of 4 times.

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KV Oostende form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for KV Oostende so far with only 16 points returning home. The records show 4-4-8 (win-draw-lose).

Oostende's last game was the home draw against RFC Seraing (2-2). Ambrose, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.3. Ambrose hit two key passes.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Union Saint-Gilloise that ended 1-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found five similar matches played by KV Oostende in our archives, and the results are: one win for KV Oostende, two draws and two defeats.

The attacking power of KV Oostende when travelling is not overwhelming with 13 goals scored from 16 league matches away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As for defending, Oostende rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 24 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

KV Oostende - AS Eupen 2-1 was the score in these contenders' last head to head game, earlier this season. Stats for the previous ten meetings between these two participants are: four wins for AS Eupen, three draws and three wins for KV Oostende. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games. The matches between these clubs have had a tendency to be aggressive, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

KV OostendeM. Gueye
M. Gueye
12 goals
AS EupenS. Prevljak
S. Prevljak
9 goals
AS EupenE. Agbadou
E. Agbadou
5 goals

AS Eupen missing players

KV Oostende missing players

AS Eupen KV Oostende
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
33 16 4 Played P 4 16 33
8 4 1 Won W 2 4 9
8 4 1 Drew D 1 4 7
17 8 2 Lost L 1 8 17
37 18 3 Scored S 5 13 32
59 27 5 Conceded C 3 24 61
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 94% 94%
82% 81% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 62% 73%
58% 50% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 38% 55%
36% 38% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 12% 30%
18% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 12% 12%
55% 62% 50% BTTS BTTS 25% 31% 45%
12% 6% 25% Clean Sheets C S 50% 19% 18%
39% 31% 25% Failed to Score F T 50% 56% 42%
 
4.8 5.9 6.8 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 4.9 5.5
5.3 4.8 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5.8 6.1 5
2.3 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.8 2.7 2.4
2 2 0 Red cards R C 3 4 5
 
12.2 13.2 13.8 Shots (avg) S ( 13 10.8 11.7
4.2 4.5 2.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.2 2.9 3.4
27% 25% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 28% 29%
 
14.5 13.6 13.2 Shots against (avg) S A 13 15.2 13.1
5.4 4.8 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 5.6 4.9
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • AS Eupen have the fewest clean sheets (1) at home in Pro League
  • AS Eupen have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • AS Eupen haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • KV Oostende have the fewest scored goals (13) away in Pro League

  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 33 23 5 5 73 27 16 9 3 4 27 14 17 14 2 1 46 13 46 74
2 Club Brugge 33 20 9 4 70 37 16 9 6 1 34 16 17 11 3 3 36 21 33 69
3 Antwerp 33 19 5 9 54 37 16 9 3 4 29 18 17 10 2 5 25 19 17 62
4 Anderlecht 33 17 10 6 69 34 17 10 5 2 41 19 16 7 5 4 28 15 35 61
5 Gent 33 17 8 8 51 30 16 10 3 3 32 16 17 7 5 5 19 14 21 59
6 Mechelen 33 15 7 11 57 59 17 10 4 3 36 24 16 5 3 8 21 35 -2 52
7 Sporting Charleroi 33 14 9 10 52 46 16 6 5 5 21 16 17 8 4 5 31 30 6 51
8 Genk 33 14 6 13 64 47 17 10 3 4 39 18 16 4 3 9 25 29 17 48
9 Sint-Truiden 33 14 6 13 39 40 16 6 3 7 23 23 17 8 3 6 16 17 -1 48
10 Cercle Brugge 33 12 8 13 48 45 17 6 4 7 23 20 16 6 4 6 25 25 3 44
11 OH Leuven 33 10 11 12 47 53 17 7 4 6 25 25 16 3 7 6 22 28 -6 41
12 Kortrijk 33 9 10 14 41 45 16 5 4 7 21 21 17 4 6 7 20 24 -4 37
13 Standard Liège 33 9 9 15 32 48 17 3 5 9 15 26 16 6 4 6 17 22 -16 36
14 KV Oostende 33 9 7 17 32 61 17 5 3 9 19 37 16 4 4 8 13 24 -29 34
15 AS Eupen 33 8 8 17 37 59 16 4 4 8 18 27 17 4 4 9 19 32 -22 32
16 Zulte-Waregem 33 8 8 17 42 66 17 5 4 8 23 32 16 3 4 9 19 34 -24 32
17 RFC Seraing 33 8 4 21 30 66 16 5 3 8 16 28 17 3 1 13 14 38 -36 28
18 Beerschot-Wilrijk 33 4 4 25 33 71 17 4 1 12 16 33 16 0 3 13 17 38 -38 16

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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.