This match features two teams living in the basement of the Pro League, KV Oostende holding 14th place and Kortrijk lying 12th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
The visiting Kortrijk played their last game only three days ago, a Pro League match. That game was also an away game, at Waasland-Beveren. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Kortrijk are still fighting for top positions and their benefits.
KV Oostende form and stats
When playing at home in the Pro League, KV Oostende have managed 5 wins, 2 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 12 games.
In their previous game, the manager D. van Wijk led his KV Oostende to a defeat in the Pro League match away at Royal Excel Mouscron. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Versluys Arena. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Sint-Truiden.
This is expected to be a close game, with KV Oostende perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with KV Oostende as a small favourite), we find six games. KV Oostende has won two of these, drawn two and lost two.
KV Oostende has scored 17 league goals at home this season, in 12 matches. KV Oostende have conceded 19 from these games.
Kortrijk form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Kortrijk so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 3-2-7 (win-draw-lose).
It's the second away game in a row for Kortrijk, but there's smiles all around after the 2-1 victory versus Waasland-Beveren (placed 15th) in the Pro League last time out. A 0-1 loss hosting Antwerp before that.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Kortrijk in our archives, and the results are: eight wins for Kortrijk, zero draws and zero defeats.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Kortrijk as they have only managed to score 11 times from 12 away games in the league. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Kortrijk have conceded 20 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Kortrijk - KV Oostende 2-2, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five KV Oostende victories, two draws and three Kortrijk wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  I. Mboyo 8 goals |   J. Sakala 7 goals |  J. De Sart 4 goals |
KV Oostende missing players
Kortrijk missing players
| KV Oostende | Kortrijk | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 25 |
| 6 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 16 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| 25 | 17 | 7 | Scored | S | 7 | 11 | 35 |
| 47 | 19 | 7 | Conceded | C | 5 | 20 | 40 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 96% |
| 76% | 75% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 92% |
| 56% | 58% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 58% | 64% |
| 40% | 42% | 75% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 17% | 36% |
| 16% | 25% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 56% | 67% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 58% | 64% |
| 4% | 8% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 8% | 16% |
| 40% | 25% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 42% | 24% |
| 4.2 | 4.8 | 6.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | 5.7 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.2 | 5 | 4.2 |
| 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 136 | 55 | 15 | Total Shots | T S | 18 | 55 | 123 |
| 70 | 27 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 7 | 27 | 65 |
| 36% | 63% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 41% | 54% |
- KV Oostende has the fewest clean sheets (1)
- KV Oostende has the most conceded goals in the second half (35)
- KV Oostende have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- KV Oostende haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Kortrijk have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Club Brugge | 25 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 51 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 8 | 40 | 58 |
| 2 | Gent | 25 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 51 | 26 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 25 | 49 |
| 3 | Sporting Charleroi | 25 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 42 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 22 | 47 |
| 4 | Antwerp | 24 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 43 | 28 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 15 | 45 |
| 5 | Standard Liege | 25 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 43 | 29 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 20 | 14 | 42 |
| 6 | Genk | 24 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 37 | 34 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 3 | 37 |
| 7 | Zulte-Waregem | 25 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 37 | 37 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 0 | 34 |
| 8 | Mechelen | 25 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 36 | 42 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 23 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 19 | -6 | 34 |
| 9 | Anderlecht | 25 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 29 | 26 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 34 |
| 10 | Sint-Truiden | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 32 | 42 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 15 | 28 | -10 | 32 |
| 11 | Royal Excel Mouscron | 25 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 34 | 36 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 20 | -2 | 30 |
| 12 | Kortrijk | 25 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 35 | 40 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 20 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 20 | -5 | 29 |
| 13 | AS Eupen | 25 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 40 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 25 | -18 | 26 |
| 14 | KV Oostende | 25 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 25 | 47 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 28 | -22 | 21 |
| 15 | Waasland-Beveren | 25 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 50 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 27 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 23 | -30 | 20 |
| 16 | Cercle Brugge | 25 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 23 | 52 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 29 | -29 | 14 |