Club Brugge welcomes Sint-Truiden as clear favourites: Big betting preview

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 05.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Jan Breydelstadion (29975 seats)

There should be a significant difference in quality between these teams based on table positions so far, with Club Brugge leading Sint-Truiden by 16 points.

Insights:
  • Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals (11) in Pro League
  • Sint-Truiden has the fewest points (2) away in Pro League

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Club Brugge and Sint-Truiden.

This stadium uses grass, unlike Sint-Truiden's home stadium. The visitors last 39 games on grass have ended in 9 wins, 10 draws and 20 losses.

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Club Brugge form and stats

4-1-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Pro League numbers at home for Club Brugge, who have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Pro League, so far this season.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Simon Mignolet not having conceded a league goal in 232 minutes.

The Brugge supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Zenit in Champions League and win 3-0. Preceding that game was the away draw at Royal Excel Mouscron that finished 0-0.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Brugge as they are travelling to their away game against Lazio in the Champions League. That match is three days after this one.

A decent goal production from Club Brugge in their home games so far, with 12 goals from 7 league matches. Brugge are not conceding a lot of goals here at Jan Breydelstadion in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 7 matches.

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Sint-Truiden form and stats

There's been little loot from Sint-Truiden's travels as they have only collected 2 points from 7 away games in the Pro League. Sint-Truiden, who have the fewest points (2) away in Pro League, only have 0 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Sint-Truiden, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 2-3 versus Royal Excel Mouscron (placed 18th). Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Waasland-Beveren.

Sint-Truiden have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 7 league away games 9 goals have been scored. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Sint-Truiden's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 20 goals in 7 travels.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Brugge seven wins, two draws and Sint-Truiden one victory. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

BruggeK. Diatta
K. Diatta
6 goals
Club BruggeH. Vanaken
H. Vanaken
5 goals
Sint-TruidenY. Suzuki
Y. Suzuki
5 goals

Club Brugge missing players

Sint-Truiden missing players

Club Brugge Sint-Truiden
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
14 7 2 Played P 1 7 14
8 4 1 Won W 0 0 2
3 1 1 Drew D 0 2 5
3 2 0 Lost L 1 5 7
29 12 6 Scored S 3 9 17
11 6 3 Conceded C 6 20 27
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 86%
71% 57% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 86%
64% 57% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 71% 57%
36% 29% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 57% 36%
14% 14% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 29% 21%
50% 43% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 71% 64%
36% 29% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 21%
21% 29% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 29%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.4 1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 3.4 2.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
8.6 5.6 7 Shots (avg) S ( 9 8.1 8.4
3.7 1.9 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 3.4 3.6
56% 92% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 38% 33%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • All of Sint-Truiden's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals (11) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the the best goal difference (+18) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Club Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Sint-Truiden has the fewest points (2) away in Pro League
  • Sint-Truiden has the most conceded goals (20) away in Pro League
  • Sint-Truiden has the the worst goal difference (-11) away in Pro League
  • Sint-Truiden have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Sint-Truiden have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Sint-Truiden have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sint-Truiden have yet to win a game away.
  • Sint-Truiden haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Beerschot-Wilrijk 14 9 1 4 38 33 7 6 0 1 23 14 7 3 1 3 15 19 5 28
2 Genk 14 8 4 2 31 18 7 4 2 1 17 8 7 4 2 1 14 10 13 28
3 Club Brugge 14 8 3 3 29 11 7 4 1 2 12 6 7 4 2 1 17 5 18 27
4 Antwerp 14 7 4 3 26 19 7 4 3 0 15 9 7 3 1 3 11 10 7 25
5 Standard Liege 14 6 6 2 17 12 7 3 4 0 9 6 7 3 2 2 8 6 5 24
6 Sporting Charleroi 14 7 2 5 22 16 7 4 0 3 10 6 7 3 2 2 12 10 6 23
7 Anderlecht 14 5 7 2 23 18 7 3 4 0 10 5 7 2 3 2 13 13 5 22
8 Kortrijk 14 5 4 5 21 21 7 2 2 3 14 15 7 3 2 2 7 6 0 19
9 OH Leuven 13 5 4 4 23 24 6 3 2 1 9 8 7 2 2 3 14 16 -1 19
10 Cercle Brugge 14 6 0 8 21 25 7 3 0 4 13 14 7 3 0 4 8 11 -4 18
11 Gent 14 5 1 8 21 23 7 2 1 4 11 12 7 3 0 4 10 11 -2 16
12 AS Eupen 13 3 7 3 16 20 6 2 2 2 8 10 7 1 5 1 8 10 -4 16
13 KV Oostende 14 4 4 6 18 18 7 3 2 2 14 9 7 1 2 4 4 9 0 16
14 Zulte-Waregem 14 4 2 8 19 28 7 1 1 5 8 17 7 3 1 3 11 11 -9 14
15 Mechelen 13 3 3 7 19 25 7 1 2 4 12 14 6 2 1 3 7 11 -6 12
16 Waasland-Beveren 14 3 3 8 19 30 7 1 1 5 8 16 7 2 2 3 11 14 -11 12
17 Sint-Truiden 14 2 5 7 17 27 7 2 3 2 8 7 7 0 2 5 9 20 -10 11
18 Royal Excel Mouscron 13 2 4 7 9 21 7 1 2 4 4 8 6 1 2 3 5 13 -12 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.