Early weight of the money insinuate Gent advantage versus Standard Liège

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 03.June
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: GHELAMCO-arena (20000 seats)

The Gent & Standard Liège managers Vanhaezebrouck and Valenne are both anxious about and feeling excited about this important fixture in the upper part of the Pro League table.

Insights:
  • Gent have the most scored goals in the second half (48) in Pro League

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Gent form and stats

Gent have played 17 Pro League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 9-4-4 (wins-draws-losses).

Gent enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Westerlo's place. The match ended 3-1 with Hjulsager, Cuypers and Tissoudali scoring. The host team have an in-form goalscorer in Cuypers, having scored in four consecutive matches. The attacker Cuypers was declared "man of the match" for Gent with the rating of 8.74/10. Cuypers scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that, Gent drew at home versus Cercle Brugge.

Goal party? Who knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 9 of the 11 most recent league matches with this club has seen three goals or more.

The Gent fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 28 goals in 17 league matches. Gent are not conceding a lot of goals here at GHELAMCO-arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 16 from 17 matches.

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Standard Liège form and stats

As the visiting team in Pro League matches, Standard Liège have produced an overall stat of 6-4-7 so far.

Emond  was the last player to score for the away team. Standard Liège haven't scored a league goal in the last 194 minutes.

Home advantage was not enough for Standard Liège in their previous game as they lost hosting Cercle Brugge, 0-4. Standard Liège lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. Standard goalkeeper Bodart had a wonderful day's work versus Cercle Brugge, but despite managing six saves the defeat could not be stopped. Melegoni got a match rating of 7.34 in that game, top player of the team. Melegoni hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 6 of 7 times.

Preceding that game, the 0-3 loss visiting Westerlo's place.

Goal hungry football fans should note that 8 of this team's 10 latest league rounds have ended with three goals or more.

Standard Liège find the net regularly in their away games. 24 goals from 17 away fixtures in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Standard have conceded 28 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Gent have pulled off a sequence of 7 consecutive games without losing (5-2-0) when facing Standard Liège.

The previous head to head meeting ended Standard Liège - Gent 1-2, played this season. The ref got to use his red card when these teams last played each other, and the recipient was Alzate (Standard Liège).

Top Goalscorers

GentH. Cuypers
H. Cuypers
24 goals
GentG. Orban
G. Orban
15 goals
Standard LiègeP. Zinckernagel
P. Zinckernagel
10 goals

Gent missing players

Standard Liège missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Gent Standard Liège
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
39 19 4 Played P 4 19 38
20 10 1 Won W 1 6 15
9 5 1 Drew D 0 5 9
10 4 2 Lost L 3 8 14
78 33 6 Scored S 6 24 56
43 19 6 Conceded C 11 31 56
95% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 95%
87% 84% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 79% 87%
62% 58% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 53% 55%
36% 21% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 75% 37% 39%
15% 11% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 21% 13%
54% 58% 75% BTTS BTTS 75% 53% 50%
36% 42% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 26% 32%
15% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 32% 24%
 
5.9 6.5 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.4 5.1
4.1 4 2.8 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 5.4 5.2
1.3 1.4 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.6 2.3
3 0 0 Red cards R C 1 5 11
 
13.9 15.8 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11.8 10.8 11.7
5.1 5.3 3.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.8 3.3 4
40% 33% 46% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 39% 37%
 
9.6 9.4 7.5 Shots against (avg) S A 13.8 13.2 12.6
3.4 3.2 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 4.7 4.3
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Gent have the most scored goals in the second half (48) in Pro League

  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 34 23 6 5 78 37 17 14 1 2 44 15 17 9 5 3 34 22 41 75
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 34 23 6 5 70 41 17 13 2 2 33 16 17 10 4 3 37 25 29 75
3 Antwerp 34 22 6 6 59 26 17 13 2 2 36 11 17 9 4 4 23 15 33 72
4 Club Brugge 34 16 11 7 61 36 17 10 6 1 40 15 17 6 5 6 21 21 25 59
5 Gent 34 16 8 10 64 38 17 9 4 4 28 16 17 7 4 6 36 22 26 56
6 Standard Liège 34 16 7 11 58 45 17 10 3 4 34 17 17 6 4 7 24 28 13 55
7 Westerlo 34 14 9 11 61 53 17 8 4 5 40 26 17 6 5 6 21 27 8 51
8 Cercle Brugge 34 13 11 10 50 46 17 8 7 2 31 18 17 5 4 8 19 28 4 50
9 OH Leuven 34 13 9 12 56 48 17 7 5 5 29 24 17 6 4 7 27 24 8 48
10 Sporting Charleroi 34 14 6 14 45 52 17 7 2 8 23 27 17 7 4 6 22 25 -7 48
11 Anderlecht 34 13 7 14 49 46 17 6 4 7 27 23 17 7 3 7 22 23 3 46
12 Sint-Truiden 34 11 9 14 37 40 17 6 4 7 20 19 17 5 5 7 17 21 -3 42
13 Mechelen 34 11 7 16 49 63 17 7 6 4 29 27 17 4 1 12 20 36 -14 40
14 Kortrijk 34 8 7 19 37 61 17 4 5 8 16 29 17 4 2 11 21 32 -24 31
15 AS Eupen 34 7 7 20 40 75 17 4 4 9 22 33 17 3 3 11 18 42 -35 28
16 Zulte-Waregem 34 6 9 19 50 78 17 3 4 10 27 46 17 3 5 9 23 32 -28 27
17 KV Oostende 34 7 6 21 37 76 17 5 1 11 18 33 17 2 5 10 19 43 -39 27
18 RFC Seraing 34 5 5 24 28 68 17 1 4 12 8 29 17 4 1 12 20 39 -40 20

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 34 23 6 5 78 37 17 14 1 2 44 15 17 9 5 3 34 22 41 75
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 34 23 6 5 70 41 17 13 2 2 33 16 17 10 4 3 37 25 29 75
3 Antwerp 34 22 6 6 59 26 17 13 2 2 36 11 17 9 4 4 23 15 33 72
4 Club Brugge 34 16 11 7 61 36 17 10 6 1 40 15 17 6 5 6 21 21 25 59
5 Gent 34 16 8 10 64 38 17 9 4 4 28 16 17 7 4 6 36 22 26 56
6 Standard Liège 34 16 7 11 58 45 17 10 3 4 34 17 17 6 4 7 24 28 13 55
7 Westerlo 34 14 9 11 61 53 17 8 4 5 40 26 17 6 5 6 21 27 8 51
8 Cercle Brugge 34 13 11 10 50 46 17 8 7 2 31 18 17 5 4 8 19 28 4 50
9 OH Leuven 34 13 9 12 56 48 17 7 5 5 29 24 17 6 4 7 27 24 8 48
10 Sporting Charleroi 34 14 6 14 45 52 17 7 2 8 23 27 17 7 4 6 22 25 -7 48
11 Anderlecht 34 13 7 14 49 46 17 6 4 7 27 23 17 7 3 7 22 23 3 46
12 Sint-Truiden 34 11 9 14 37 40 17 6 4 7 20 19 17 5 5 7 17 21 -3 42
13 Mechelen 34 11 7 16 49 63 17 7 6 4 29 27 17 4 1 12 20 36 -14 40
14 Kortrijk 34 8 7 19 37 61 17 4 5 8 16 29 17 4 2 11 21 32 -24 31
15 AS Eupen 34 7 7 20 40 75 17 4 4 9 22 33 17 3 3 11 18 42 -35 28
16 Zulte-Waregem 34 6 9 19 50 78 17 3 4 10 27 46 17 3 5 9 23 32 -28 27
17 KV Oostende 34 7 6 21 37 76 17 5 1 11 18 33 17 2 5 10 19 43 -39 27
18 RFC Seraing 34 5 5 24 28 68 17 1 4 12 8 29 17 4 1 12 20 39 -40 20

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