Genk regulars hope for points in home game vs Beerschot-Wilrijk

Genk form and stats

The story so far in the Pro League for Genk at their home stadium (Luminus Arena) is 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

Genk enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at KV Oostende's place. The match ended 4-0 with Hrošovský, Ugbo, Muñoz and Ito scoring. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Genk played a great game against KV Oostende and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. Ito, who plays in attack, was the highest rated player for the side in that game, receiving a rating of 9.43 (out of 10). Ito scored one goal, served one assist, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 4 times.

Before that, Genk drew at home versus Antwerp.

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 Genk home games with this odds we find four games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in three wins, one draw and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, three matches were won by at least two goals.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Genk, as the Pro League home game vs Mechelen is only three days away.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (20 in 10 games), Genk's attacking play is working. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Genk defense is not exactly impregnable. 15 goals conceded from 10 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Beerschot-Wilrijk form and stats

There's been little loot from Beerschot-Wilrijk's travels as they have only collected 3 points from 9 away games in the Pro League. Beerschot-Wilrijk only have 0 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 3 draws. It's looking increasingly bleak for Beerschot-Wilrijk who now has to deal with a five game losing streak. Genk was the last time a defeat was avoided.

Caicedo was the last player to score for the away team. Beerschot-Wilrijk haven't scored a league goal in the last 450 minutes.

Home advantage was not enough for Beerschot-Wilrijk in their previous game, as they lost their Pro League-match, hosting Anderlecht, 0-7. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Anderlecht was particularly ugly (0-7). The humiliation is still top of mind. The attacker Shankland got a match rating of 6.8 in that game. Shankland dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against KV Oostende.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Beerschot-Wilrijk played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, one were draw and the home team won as expected zero times.

Beerschot-Wilrijk have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 9 league away games 10 goals have been scored. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. The Beerschot-Wilrijk manager Torrente has some worries about the defense as 21 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

Beerschot-Wilrijk - Genk 2-0 was the product when these teams last played each other, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Genk zero wins, zero draws and Beerschot-Wilrijk three victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

E. Onuachu 12 goals

T. Bongonda Mbul'Ofeko Batombo 6 goals

P. Hrošovský 4 goals

Genk missing players

Beerschot-Wilrijk missing players