Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Club Brugge welcomes Standard Liège

Competition: Belgium Pro League
Date: Mon 08.April
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Jan Breydelstadion (29062 seats)

Club Brugge and Standard Liège are both riding high in the Pro League with their 2nd and 3rd positions respectively. Expect a great game!

These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Pro League. That game was an away game at Anderlecht, so at least Club Brugge are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Club Brugge form and stats

Club Brugge, who have the most scored goals (64) in Pro League, are steadily winning games and points here at Jan Breydelstadion. 10 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats is the summary from 15 games.

A good away victory last time out for Club Brugge, who won 3-2 against Anderlecht. Before that game, the 3-0 home victory against Gent.

The Club Brugge manager I. Leko has got the team scoring with 36 from 15 home games. Club Brugge are not conceding a lot of goals here at Jan Breydelstadion, averaging less than one per game. The total is 14 from 15 matches.

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Standard Liège form and stats

5-4-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Standard Liège in their matches away. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Standard Liège hope to make it five in this match. Standard Liège has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Standard Liège play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Gent. Prior to that match, a home win 3-1 against Antwerp.

A quick return to home after this game, as Standard Liège are hosting Anderlecht in the Pro League only four days away.

Standard Liège are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 17 away goals from 15 games. As opposed to that, Standard Liège have seen the ball go into their own net 18 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Club Brugge - Standard Liège 3-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 5 Club Brugge victories, 3 draws and 2 Standard Liège wins.

Top Goalscorers

R. Emond
13 goals
H. Vanaken
12 goals / 14 assists
Wesley
11 goals / 6 assists

Club Brugge missing players

Standard Liège missing players

Club Brugge Standard Liège
Total Home Statistic Away Total
32 16 Played 16 32
70 39 Scored 19 54
34 14 Conceded 19 37
97% 100% Over 0.5 88% 88%
84% 88% Over 1.5 81% 84%
72% 75% Over 2.5 56% 62%
44% 38% Over 3.5 12% 31%
12% 12% Over 4.5 0% 12%
62% 56% Both teams to score 56% 66%
34% 38% Clean Sheet 31% 25%
6% 6% Failed To Score 25% 22%
Key stats this season:
  • Club Brugge hasn't played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Club Brugge is involved in more matches over 2.5 home, than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Genk 30 18 9 3 63 31 15 9 4 2 26 12 15 9 5 1 37 19 32 63
2 Club Brugge 30 16 8 6 64 32 15 10 2 3 36 14 15 6 6 3 28 18 32 56
3 Standard Liège 30 15 8 7 49 35 15 10 4 1 32 17 15 5 4 6 17 18 14 53
4 Anderlecht 30 15 6 9 49 34 15 8 6 1 27 12 15 7 0 8 22 22 15 51
5 Gent 30 15 5 10 53 45 15 9 2 4 26 21 15 6 3 6 27 24 8 50
6 Antwerp 30 14 7 9 39 34 15 6 4 5 22 20 15 8 3 4 17 14 5 49
7 Sint-Truiden 30 12 11 7 47 36 15 8 5 2 27 16 15 4 6 5 20 20 11 47
8 Kortrijk 30 12 7 11 44 42 15 6 3 6 24 25 15 6 4 5 20 17 2 43
9 Sporting Charleroi 30 12 6 12 43 43 15 7 3 5 22 18 15 5 3 7 21 25 0 42
10 Royal Excel Mouscron 30 11 7 12 33 33 15 7 4 4 17 10 15 4 3 8 16 23 0 40
11 Zulte-Waregem 30 8 9 13 49 60 15 5 5 5 29 27 15 3 4 8 20 33 -11 33
12 AS Eupen 30 10 2 18 34 57 15 6 0 9 20 28 15 4 2 9 14 29 -23 32
13 Cercle Brugge 30 7 7 16 35 59 15 6 3 6 23 27 15 1 4 10 12 32 -24 28
14 Waasland-Beveren 30 5 12 13 37 50 15 3 7 5 17 22 15 2 5 8 20 28 -13 27
15 KV Oostende 30 6 9 15 29 52 15 4 4 7 15 24 15 2 5 8 14 28 -23 27
16 Lokeren 30 5 5 20 28 53 15 5 3 7 16 24 15 0 2 13 12 29 -25 20