Kortrijk are all set for a new challenge after their 1-0 versus AS Eupen last time. Mechelen are coming to visit!
- Kortrijk have yet to win a game at home.
- Mechelen have yet to win a game away.
Kortrijk and Mechelen should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Kortrijk form and stats
Three Pro League home games done for Kortrijk, who are not happy collecting 1 point from these matches.
A good away victory last time out for Kortrijk, who won 1-0 against AS Eupen (placed 15th). At last, a league victory after four games without. The victory against AS Eupen came after Mbayo's winning goal. The Kortrijk manager Belhocine was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 74th minute. The goalie Ilić was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 8.0 out of ten. Ilić topped it up with a clean sheet.
Ahead of that match, Kortrijk lost 0-1 at home to Standard Liège.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Kortrijk have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 12 matches with the results: Won 1, drawn 5 and lost 6.
At Guldensporenstadion, Kortrijk has the goal stats of 0-3 (for/against) from 3 league fixtures.
Mechelen form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Pro League for Mechelen with 1 draw and 2 losses from their first 3 attempts.
Mechelen have lots to rectify after their out-of-character defeat (2-3) to RFC Seraing in their previous game, played at home. Hairemans got a match rating of 8.34 in that game, top player of the team. Hairemans served one assist, hit three key passes and had 47 successful passes (of 52 total).
Prior to that match, the Mechelen manager Buijs faced defeat when travelling to Sint-Truiden and losing 1-3.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Mechelen in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Mechelen, 3 draws and 4 defeats.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Mechelen as they have only managed to score 2 times from 3 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Mechelen have conceded 5 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Kortrijk victories, two draws and five Mechelen wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  G. Hairemans 3 goals |  T. Peyre 2 goals |  R. Schoofs 2 goals |
Kortrijk missing players
Mechelen missing players
| Kortrijk | Mechelen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 14 |
| 86% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 67% | 86% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 86% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 71% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 57% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 43% | 100% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 3.6 | 4.7 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 6.7 | 6.1 |
| 7.1 | 6.3 | 9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 4.7 |
| 2.6 | 2.3 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3 | 2.1 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.3 | 11.3 | 6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2.7 | 3.3 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 21% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 13% | 34% |
| 20.3 | 17.7 | 16 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 11.7 | 9.4 |
| 4.3 | 4.3 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.7 | 3.7 |
- Kortrijk have failed to score a single goal at home.
- Kortrijk have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Kortrijk have yet to win a game at home.
- Mechelen have scored more than double the goals of Kortrijk.
- Mechelen have yet to win a game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Antwerp | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 18 |
| 2 | Genk | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 16 |
| 3 | Club Brugge | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 16 |
| 4 | OH Leuven | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| 5 | Gent | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | Sint-Truiden | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 7 | Standard Liège | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 10 |
| 8 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -2 | 10 |
| 9 | Anderlecht | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 10 | Sporting Charleroi | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 11 | Mechelen | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 12 | Kortrijk | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 7 |
| 13 | Westerlo | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -1 | 6 |
| 14 | KV Oostende | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 6 |
| 15 | AS Eupen | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -6 | 6 |
| 16 | RFC Seraing | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | -7 | 6 |
| 17 | Zulte-Waregem | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 5 |
| 18 | Cercle Brugge | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -8 | 5 |
