Possible nail-biting contest in Beerschot-Wilrijk - Kortrijk game

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Wed 27.January
Match begins: 17:45 (UTC)
Venue: Olympisch Stadion (12771 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Beerschot-Wilrijk are in the 9th position while the guesting Kortrijk worry at 13th.

Insights:
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk has the most conceded goals in the first half (25) in Pro League
  • Kortrijk has the fewest scored goals (8) away in Pro League

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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Beerschot-Wilrijk form and stats

6-2-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Pro League numbers at home for Beerschot-Wilrijk, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Pro League, so far this season.

Happy days for Beerschot-Wilrijk in their previous game, a Pro League match away at Zulte-Waregem (placed 12th) that ended with a 3-0 victory. Heartbreak before that as Beerschot-Wilrijk lost 1-3 at AS Eupen's place.

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 Beerschot-Wilrijk have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eight matches with the results: Won six, drawn one and lost one.

Beerschot-Wilrijk are traveling soon after this match as the Pro League match at OH Leuven awaits in three days.

Goals decide football matches and Beerschot-Wilrijk are scoring many of them at home; 25 on target from 11 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Beerschot-Wilrijk have conceded 20 from these games.

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Kortrijk form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the fewest scored goals (8) away in Pro League, on their Pro League travels is 3 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats. Three has not been a lucky number for Kortrijk as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Genk match. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Kortrijk are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

Kortrijk's previous game was their home loss versus Cercle Brugge (1-2). A loss against Sint-Truiden was the result prior to that, in a home game.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Kortrijk playing away and similar expectations, we found eight relevant matches. Results were six Kortrijk wins, two draws and zero defeats.

A new game in only three days for Kortrijk, the Pro League home match versus Sporting Charleroi. Busy days.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Kortrijk as they have only managed to score 8 times from 10 away games in the league. 10 goals have been conceded by Kortrijk in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Kortrijk - Beerschot-Wilrijk 5-5. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Beerschot-Wilrijk zero wins, three draws and Kortrijk zero victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Beerschot-WilrijkR. Holzhauser
R. Holzhauser
11 goals
Beerschot-WilrijkT. Tissoudali
T. Tissoudali
7 goals

Beerschot-Wilrijk missing players

Kortrijk missing players

Beerschot-Wilrijk Kortrijk
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 3 Played P 3 10 23
10 6 2 Won W 1 3 8
3 2 1 Drew D 2 3 5
10 3 0 Lost L 0 4 10
45 25 10 Scored S 3 8 28
48 20 6 Conceded C 2 10 34
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 80% 87%
87% 91% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 60% 74%
74% 73% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 40% 61%
52% 45% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 22%
35% 36% 67% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 4%
70% 73% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 50% 57%
9% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 30% 26%
22% 27% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 40% 30%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 2.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.8 1.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
7 8.6 4.7 Shots (avg) S ( 10 5.8 8.7
4 4.8 2.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.7 2.6 3.7
49% 47% 125% Goal Efficiency G E 21% 31% 33%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk has the most conceded goals in the first half (25) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk has the most matches over the total-line (14) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Kortrijk have scored away.
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Kortrijk has the fewest scored goals (8) 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 Club Brugge 23 16 3 4 48 16 12 8 1 3 21 10 11 8 2 1 27 6 32 51
2 Genk 23 11 6 6 46 31 11 6 4 1 25 12 12 5 2 5 21 19 15 39
3 Standard Liege 23 10 7 6 33 24 12 5 5 2 18 14 11 5 2 4 15 10 9 37
4 Antwerp 23 11 4 8 36 32 12 6 3 3 19 15 11 5 1 5 17 17 4 37
5 Anderlecht 23 9 9 5 33 25 12 7 5 0 18 6 11 2 4 5 15 19 8 36
6 KV Oostende 23 10 5 8 33 29 11 6 3 2 22 14 12 4 2 6 11 15 4 35
7 OH Leuven 23 10 5 8 39 39 12 6 2 4 16 16 11 4 3 4 23 23 0 35
8 Sporting Charleroi 23 10 3 10 34 32 10 5 1 4 11 7 13 5 2 6 23 25 2 33
9 Beerschot-Wilrijk 23 10 3 10 45 48 11 6 2 3 25 20 12 4 1 7 20 28 -3 33
10 AS Eupen 23 7 9 7 29 37 11 4 3 4 17 19 12 3 6 3 12 18 -8 30
11 Gent 23 9 3 11 33 30 10 4 1 5 16 14 13 5 2 6 17 16 3 30
12 Zulte-Waregem 23 9 3 11 34 41 13 3 2 8 14 27 10 6 1 3 20 14 -7 30
13 Kortrijk 23 8 5 10 28 34 13 5 2 6 20 24 10 3 3 4 8 10 -6 29
14 Mechelen 23 8 5 10 35 40 13 4 2 7 22 25 10 4 3 3 13 15 -5 29
15 Sint-Truiden 23 7 5 11 29 36 12 4 3 5 14 14 11 3 2 6 15 22 -7 26
16 Royal Excel Mouscron 23 6 6 11 21 32 11 3 4 4 12 12 12 3 2 7 9 20 -11 24
17 Cercle Brugge 23 7 1 15 29 39 11 3 0 8 17 22 12 4 1 7 12 17 -10 22
18 Waasland-Beveren 23 5 6 12 28 48 10 2 1 7 11 24 13 3 5 5 17 24 -20 21

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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.