Home advantage could prove decisive in OH Leuven - RWDM battle

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 05.Aug
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: King Power at Den Dreef Stadion (12500 seats)

With the tense opening match finished it’s time for the second Pro League meeting of the season. OH Leuven are ready to confront RWDM in front of their stadium regulars.

This should be an interesting fixture with lots of action and bustle as both teams are well refreshed since they last played a game. Game on!

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OH Leuven form and stats

The previous season, OH Leuven's league statistics were 13 wins, 9 draws and 12 losses, leading to 9th spot in the Pro League. From these 34 matches they scored {56 goals} and conceded 48. Performing as the home side in the former season OH Leuven managed 7-5-5 (win-draw-lost) with {29 goals} and 24 conceded.

The home team returns to King Power at Den Dreef Stadion after drawing with Sporting Charleroi (placed 5th) on their last time out; the game ended 1-1. The attacker Opoku was announced as "man of the match" for OH Leuven with a rating of 8.11/10. Opoku scored one goal, hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Standard Liege in a game that was won 3-2.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does OH Leuven handle that role? We have found 5 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats.

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RWDM form and stats

Let's have a look at how RWDM performed last season in the First Division B: They landed a 1st position in the league table after playing out 14 victories, 4 draws and 4 defeats. In total they scored 41 and conceded {21 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 2 and lost 3 with 16/12 goals scored/conceded.

RWDM's previous game was their home loss versus Genk (0-4). RWDM 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. RWDM goalkeeper Defourny took pride in a terrific day vs Genk, but even with pulling off six saves the loss could not be helped. Ouahdi, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.81. Ouahdi hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times.

Before that, RWDM secured a home win against RSC Anderlecht II with the score 1-0.

We have checked recent matches where RWDM have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 5 games were 2 victories, 3 draws and 0 defeats.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

LeuvenN. Opoku
N. Opoku
1 goals

OH Leuven missing players

RWDM missing players

Total First Half Second Half
OH Leuven RWDM
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 0 1
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
1 0 0 Scored S 0 0 0
1 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 4
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
100% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 100%
 
6 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 2
2 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 6
1 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
19 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 10
5 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 5
20% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
4 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 28
2 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 10
OH Leuven Last season RWDM
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   16 32
13 7   Won W   9 21
9 5   Drew D   3 6
12 5   Lost L   4 5
56 29   Scored S   28 65
48 24   Conceded C   16 29
91% 94%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
82% 88%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   88% 88%
56% 53%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   62% 62%
35% 35%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   19% 34%
26% 35%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   6% 9%
59% 59%   BTTS BTTS   69% 62%
24% 18%   Clean Sheets C S   25% 31%
26% 29%   Failed to Score F T   6% 6%
 
5.1 5.2   Corners for (avg) C F   4.9 5.8
6.6 6   Corners against (avg) C A   4.8 4.8
1.8 1.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.9 2
2 0   Red cards R C   0 1
 
13.1 13.7   Shots (avg) S (   11.6 13.2
4.6 5.2   Shots on Target (avg) S O   5 5.5
35% 33%   Goal Efficiency G E   35% 37%
 
14.6 12   Shots against (avg) S A   8.6 9.4
4.2 3.7   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   3.8 3.9

  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 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 4 3
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
3 AS Eupen 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
4 Westerlo 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
5 Sporting Charleroi 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
6 OH Leuven 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
7 Cercle Brugge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Mechelen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Antwerp 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Club Brugge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Sint-Truiden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Standard Liege 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Kortrijk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Gent 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Anderlecht 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
16 RWDM 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -4 0
Last season 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 Liege 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
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 RWDM 32 21 6 5 65 29 16 12 3 1 37 13 16 9 3 4 28 16 36 69
2 Waasland-Beveren 32 20 8 4 76 34 16 13 2 1 44 14 16 7 6 3 32 20 42 68
3 Club Brugge II 32 14 7 11 51 48 16 9 4 3 28 17 16 5 3 8 23 31 3 49
4 Beerschot-Wilrijk 32 15 4 13 43 41 16 7 3 6 21 15 16 8 1 7 22 26 2 49
5 Lierse Kempenzonen 32 14 4 14 53 59 16 8 1 7 30 27 16 6 3 7 23 32 -6 46
6 RSC Anderlecht II 32 9 10 13 46 56 16 3 6 7 21 29 16 6 4 6 25 27 -10 37

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 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 4 3
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
3 AS Eupen 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
4 Westerlo 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
5 Sporting Charleroi 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
6 OH Leuven 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
7 Cercle Brugge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Mechelen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Antwerp 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Club Brugge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Sint-Truiden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Standard Liege 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Kortrijk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Gent 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Anderlecht 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
16 RWDM 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -4 0

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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.