Football preview: Home crowd has high expectations when Gent welcome AS Eupen

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 19.March
Match begins: 18:15 (UTC)
Venue: GHELAMCO-arena (20000 seats)

A home win is predicted from this fixture if the league table is to be believed. The Gent regulars are hoping that the mismatch between 5th and AS Eupen's 14th place in the table will be visible on the pitch.

Insights:
  • AS Eupen have the most conceded goals in the first half (34) in Pro League

These are hustling days for the host team, as they played only four days ago in the Europa Conference League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Istanbul Basaksehir.

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Gent form and stats

Gent have collected 27 points from their Pro League home games so far after 8-3-3. Gent has recorded two wins in a row here at GHELAMCO-arena, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

Gent are returning here after guesting Istanbul Basaksehir in a Europa Conference League match and winning with a 4-1 scoreline. Orban, a striker, was the best performer for the side in that fixture, earning a rating of 8.8 (out of 10). Orban scored three goals.

In the game before, an away victory in the Pro League match versus Zulte-Waregem (after extra-time) with a 6-2 scoreline.

Gent are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 10 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 8, drew 2 and lost 0.

Gent have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at GHELAMCO-arena with 23 goals in 14 league matches. Gent have only conceded 13 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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AS Eupen form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for AS Eupen so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 3-2-9 (win-draw-lose). Three consecutive losses in away matches means AS Eupen are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.

AS Eupen's last game was the home draw against KV Oostende (after extra-time) (4-4). An insane game with an abundance of goals last time out for AS Eupen, as mentioned above. 8 goals in that match, will this game be as refreshing? Gassama, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.14. Gassama scored one goal, served one assist, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 7 times.

A 1-2 defeat away at Union Saint-Gilloise (after extra-time) before that.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Eupen played away with similar odds. This revealed 7 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 1 were draw and the home team won as expected 6 times.

Betting fact: Both teams have scored at least one goal in 9 of this club's latest 11 league matches.

The visiting AS Eupen have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 18 goals from 14 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. For AS Eupen, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

The former head-to-head meeting ended AS Eupen - Gent 0-4, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's seven Gent victories, one draw and two AS Eupen wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less. The games between these clubs sometimes lean towards being "violent", having seen 6 red cards from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

GentH. Cuypers
H. Cuypers
15 goals
GentG. Orban
G. Orban
7 goals
AS EupenS. Peeters
S. Peeters
7 goals

Gent missing players

AS Eupen missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Gent AS Eupen
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
29 14 4 Played P 4 14 29
14 8 4 Won W 1 3 7
6 3 0 Drew D 0 2 6
9 3 0 Lost L 3 9 16
53 23 9 Scored S 4 18 39
34 13 2 Conceded C 8 32 59
93% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
83% 79% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 71% 79%
55% 50% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 57% 59%
31% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 43% 38%
17% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 29% 21%
48% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 64% 66%
38% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 25% 21% 14%
21% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 14% 21%
 
5.7 6.3 6.2 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 4.3 4.9
4 4 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 6.4 5.6
1.4 1.5 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.1 2.2
3 0 0 Red cards R C 2 2 6
 
13.4 15.1 15.8 Shots (avg) S ( 9.2 10 11.9
4.8 5.3 6.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.1 3.8
38% 31% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 42% 35%
 
10 9 7.5 Shots against (avg) S A 15.8 15.4 14.4
3.5 2.9 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.8 5.3 4.8
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • AS Eupen have the most conceded goals in the first half (34) in Pro League
  • AS Eupen 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 Genk 29 21 4 4 68 29 15 12 1 2 37 12 14 9 3 2 31 17 39 67
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 29 19 5 5 59 35 14 10 2 2 27 13 15 9 3 3 32 22 24 62
3 Antwerp 29 18 6 5 53 24 14 11 2 1 33 9 15 7 4 4 20 15 29 60
4 Club Brugge 29 13 10 6 49 35 15 8 6 1 31 15 14 5 4 5 18 20 14 49
5 Gent 29 14 6 9 53 34 14 8 3 3 23 13 15 6 3 6 30 21 19 48
6 Westerlo 29 13 6 10 56 48 15 8 3 4 38 23 14 5 3 6 18 25 8 45
7 Standard Liege 29 13 6 10 46 38 14 8 2 4 27 14 15 5 4 6 19 24 8 45
8 Cercle Brugge 29 10 10 9 40 40 14 6 6 2 25 16 15 4 4 7 15 24 0 40
9 Anderlecht 29 11 6 12 42 38 15 6 3 6 25 20 14 5 3 6 17 18 4 39
10 OH Leuven 29 10 9 10 44 41 14 5 5 4 22 19 15 5 4 6 22 22 3 39
11 Sporting Charleroi 28 11 5 12 35 38 14 6 1 7 18 18 14 5 4 5 17 20 -3 38
12 Sint-Truiden 29 9 9 11 28 33 14 4 4 6 13 17 15 5 5 5 15 16 -5 36
13 Mechelen 28 9 6 13 38 51 15 7 5 3 28 23 13 2 1 10 10 28 -13 33
14 AS Eupen 29 7 6 16 39 59 15 4 4 7 21 27 14 3 2 9 18 32 -20 27
15 Kortrijk 29 7 6 16 34 54 14 3 4 7 13 25 15 4 2 9 21 29 -20 27
16 KV Oostende 29 6 6 17 33 61 14 5 1 8 16 24 15 1 5 9 17 37 -28 24
17 Zulte-Waregem 29 5 8 16 39 67 15 3 4 8 25 41 14 2 4 8 14 26 -28 23
18 RFC Seraing 29 5 4 20 25 56 15 1 3 11 7 23 14 4 1 9 18 33 -31 19

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Genk 29 21 4 4 68 29 15 12 1 2 37 12 14 9 3 2 31 17 39 67
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 29 19 5 5 59 35 14 10 2 2 27 13 15 9 3 3 32 22 24 62
3 Antwerp 29 18 6 5 53 24 14 11 2 1 33 9 15 7 4 4 20 15 29 60
4 Club Brugge 29 13 10 6 49 35 15 8 6 1 31 15 14 5 4 5 18 20 14 49
5 Gent 29 14 6 9 53 34 14 8 3 3 23 13 15 6 3 6 30 21 19 48
6 Westerlo 29 13 6 10 56 48 15 8 3 4 38 23 14 5 3 6 18 25 8 45
7 Standard Liege 29 13 6 10 46 38 14 8 2 4 27 14 15 5 4 6 19 24 8 45
8 Cercle Brugge 29 10 10 9 40 40 14 6 6 2 25 16 15 4 4 7 15 24 0 40
9 Anderlecht 29 11 6 12 42 38 15 6 3 6 25 20 14 5 3 6 17 18 4 39
10 OH Leuven 29 10 9 10 44 41 14 5 5 4 22 19 15 5 4 6 22 22 3 39
11 Sporting Charleroi 28 11 5 12 35 38 14 6 1 7 18 18 14 5 4 5 17 20 -3 38
12 Sint-Truiden 29 9 9 11 28 33 14 4 4 6 13 17 15 5 5 5 15 16 -5 36
13 Mechelen 28 9 6 13 38 51 15 7 5 3 28 23 13 2 1 10 10 28 -13 33
14 AS Eupen 29 7 6 16 39 59 15 4 4 7 21 27 14 3 2 9 18 32 -20 27
15 Kortrijk 29 7 6 16 34 54 14 3 4 7 13 25 15 4 2 9 21 29 -20 27
16 KV Oostende 29 6 6 17 33 61 14 5 1 8 16 24 15 1 5 9 17 37 -28 24
17 Zulte-Waregem 29 5 8 16 39 67 15 3 4 8 25 41 14 2 4 8 14 26 -28 23
18 RFC Seraing 29 5 4 20 25 56 15 1 3 11 7 23 14 4 1 9 18 33 -31 19

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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.