Pro League: Beerschot-Wilrijk are 14 points behind Mechelen, but fully intend to go full throttle. Let's go!
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest scored goals (7) in Pro League
- Mechelen have the most scored goals in the first half (11) in Pro League
Both sides have had plenty of rest since their previous match. Let's hope for an in-your-face match!
Beerschot-Wilrijk form and stats
There have been more unhappy faces than points at this arena so far this season, with Beerschot-Wilrijk yet to win or draw a Pro League game here. The sad story at Olympisch Stadion is: Beerschot-Wilrijk played 5 games, lost 5 games. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in ten attempts.
I. Soumare was the last player to score a league goal for Beerschot-Wilrijk and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Beerschot-Wilrijk haven't scored in 188 minutes.
The home team returns to Olympisch Stadion after being equal after 90 minutes with OH Leuven (placed 16th) on their last time out; the Pro League game ended 0-0. The Beerschot-Wilrijk goalkeeper Mike Vanhamel was crucial in the match against OH Leuven last time out, making seven saves. The goalie Mike Vanhamel was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 8.73 out of ten. Vanhamel stopped the opponent with seven saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.
Preceding that match was a defeat to AS Eupen (0-3).Beerschot-Wilrijk has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 0 goals from 5 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Beerschot-Wilrijk defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Mechelen form and stats
1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Mechelen playing as the away team in the Pro League this season.
Sandy Walsh, Hugo Cuypers and Kerim Mrabti scored in Mechelen's previous match, the home game against Standard Liege that ended 3-1. Midfielder Rob Schoofs was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.65. Schoofs served one assist, hit three key passes and had 33 successful passes (of 39 total).
Preceding that game was the away victory against Sporting Charleroi with the score of 2-0.Mechelen have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 5 league away games 6 goals have been scored. The Mechelen manager W. Vrancken has some worries about the defense as 12 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's two Beerschot-Wilrijk victories, three draws and four Mechelen wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  N. Storm 6 goals |  F. Druijf 2 goals |  K. Mrabti 2 goals |
Beerschot-Wilrijk missing players
Mechelen missing players
| Beerschot-Wilrijk | Mechelen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 6 | 18 |
| 22 | 9 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 12 | 19 |
| 90% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 60% | 40% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 80% | 90% |
| 60% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 60% |
| 40% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 60% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 20% |
| 40% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 60% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 20% |
| 60% | 100% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 5.2 | 5.8 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.4 | 5.5 |
| 5.3 | 3.4 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9.5 | 7.8 | 6.1 |
| 2.9 | 2.8 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 7.6 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.5 | 8.8 | 11.2 |
| 2.1 | 1 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3.4 | 4.5 |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 35% | 40% |
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have failed to score a single goal at home.
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have lost all their home matches so far.
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Pro League
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest points (0) at home in Pro League
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest scored goals (0) at home in Pro League
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest scored goals (7) in Pro League
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Pro League
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have the most conceded goals in the first half (10) in Pro League
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have the the worst goal difference (-15) in Pro League
- Beerschot-Wilrijk have the the worst goal difference (-9) at home in Pro League
- Beerschot-Wilrijk haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Beerschot-Wilrijk is in the worst form (0-1-5)
- Mechelen have scored more than double the goals of Beerschot-Wilrijk.
- Mechelen have the most scored goals in the first half (11) in Pro League
- Mechelen have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Mechelen 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 | AS Eupen | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 20 |
| 2 | Antwerp | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 20 |
| 3 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 19 |
| 4 | Club Brugge | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 19 |
| 5 | Genk | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 17 |
| 6 | Anderlecht | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| 7 | Mechelen | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -1 | 16 |
| 8 | Kortrijk | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| 9 | Sporting Charleroi | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 14 |
| 10 | Sint-Truiden | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | -2 | 14 |
| 11 | KV Oostende | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -4 | 14 |
| 12 | Standard Liege | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -7 | 13 |
| 13 | RFC Seraing | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -4 | 12 |
| 14 | Gent | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 |
| 15 | Zulte-Waregem | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -8 | 9 |
| 16 | OH Leuven | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -8 | 9 |
| 17 | Cercle Brugge | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 18 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -15 | 2 |