The league table shows that 10 points split the pair of rivals in this Pro League game. Club Brugge carry both the points- and home stadium advantage.
- Club Brugge have not yet lost a game at home.
- Standard Liège have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Not much time to rest for the hosts, as they performed in a Champions League match only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Manchester City.
Club Brugge form and stats
12 points is a decent return from 6 Pro League games here at Jan Breydelstadion for Club Brugge. The data says 3 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses.
Brugge faced defeat in their previous match, away at Manchester City (1-4). Clinton Mata was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.14 out of 10. The defender Mata hit one key pass and won 7 of 9 duels.
Before that match, a Pro League win away at Sint-Truiden.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Brugge home games with this odds we find nine games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in six wins, two draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, two matches were won by at least two goals.
Goals decide football matches and Brugge are scoring many of them at home; 12 on target from 6 league matches. 6 goals have been conceded.
Standard Liège form and stats
As the visiting team in Pro League matches, Standard Liège have produced an overall stat of 3-1-2 so far. The last three matches for Standard have all ended in a draw.
There were no winners in Standard's previous match, a Pro League home game that ended 1-1 vs Kortrijk (placed 9th). The draw against Kortrijk came from a losing position. The Standard manager L. Elsner brought on Merveille Bokadi as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level. Hugo Siquet was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.9. The defender Siquet hit four key passes and won 3 of 3 duels.
Prior to that result Standard won their away game at Royal Excel Mouscron in the Belgian Cup. The scoreline was 1-0.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Standard played away with similar odds. This revealed three games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected three times.
The visiting Standard Liège have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 6 goals from 6 games. In the opposite end, Standard Liège have conceded 9 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
Head to head numbers (for the prior ten meetings): Brugge won four games, three matches ended with a draw and Standard Liège managed three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  H. Vanaken 4 goals |  R. Vormer 4 goals |  C. De Ketelaere 4 goals |
Club Brugge missing players
Standard Liège missing players
| Club Brugge | Standard Liège | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 23 | 12 | 7 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 15 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 7 | 9 | 21 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 85% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 69% |
| 46% | 50% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 46% |
| 31% | 33% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 31% |
| 15% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 62% | 67% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 62% |
| 38% | 33% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 23% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 17% | 15% |
| 7.5 | 8.8 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.9 |
| 3.7 | 1.7 | 2.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4.8 | 3.5 |
| 2.3 | 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 16.4 | 21.3 | 24.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 8.7 | 10.9 |
| 5.5 | 6.7 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.5 | 2 | 3.3 |
| 32% | 30% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 50% | 33% |
| 9.8 | 7.8 | 9.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 13 | 11.5 |
| 3.2 | 2.5 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.3 | 4 |
- All of Club Brugge's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Club Brugge have not yet lost a game at home.
- Club Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Club Brugge have scored in all their matches so far.
- Club Brugge have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Club Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Standard Liège have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Standard Liège have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Standard Liège 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 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 16 | 28 |
| 2 | Club Brugge | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 23 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 26 |
| 3 | Antwerp | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 24 |
| 4 | Mechelen | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 23 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 23 |
| 5 | Sporting Charleroi | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 23 |
| 6 | Anderlecht | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 27 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 21 |
| 7 | Genk | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 20 |
| 8 | AS Eupen | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 20 |
| 9 | Kortrijk | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 19 |
| 10 | Gent | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 17 |
| 11 | KV Oostende | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -6 | 17 |
| 12 | Standard Liège | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -7 | 16 |
| 13 | Sint-Truiden | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -6 | 15 |
| 14 | OH Leuven | 13 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 14 | -5 | 14 |
| 15 | Zulte-Waregem | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | -11 | 13 |
| 16 | RFC Seraing | 13 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 27 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 18 | -11 | 12 |
| 17 | Cercle Brugge | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -7 | 9 |
| 18 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 17 | -15 | 5 |