Match-goers at King Power at Den Dreef Stadion haven’t celebrated many wins this season, with OH Leuven withering away in the 16th position. The guesting Sint-Truiden will attempt to protect their higher league position in this match.
- Sint-Truiden have the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Pro League
Both teams have had plenty of rest since their last work day in an official game. Let's look for an enthusiastic match!
OH Leuven's stadium, King Power at Den Dreef Stadion, has a grass surface. Sint-Truiden have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Sint-Truiden when playing on grass; 13 wins, 8 draws and 21 losses from 42 matches. They have scored 45 goals in these games and conceded 74.
OH Leuven form and stats
The Pro League statistics playing at home this season for OH Leuven are 1-3-1 (wins-draws-losses). With three draws from their last three games overall it has been a case of neither great nor terrible for Leuven.
Leuven shared the glory with Standard Liege in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Standard Liege as Sory Kaba's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes. Sory Kaba was able to secure the draw 2-2 in the game against Standard Liege after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? Attacking player Xavier Mercier outdid all the other footballers in that game and got a match rating of 7.8 out of 10. Mercier scored one goal, hit five key passes and had 42 successful passes (of 52 total).
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Beerschot-Wilrijk that ended 0-0.This is expected to be a close game, with OH Leuven perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with OH Leuven as a small favourite), we find ten games. OH Leuven has won three of these, drawn three and lost four.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Leuven as they are travelling to their away game against Lierse Kempenzonen in the Belgian Cup. That match is three days after this one.
OH Leuven has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 5 matches. Leuven have conceded 7 in these home matches.
Sint-Truiden form and stats
The visitors, who have the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Pro League, are W3-D1-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Pro League. Having won their last three away games Sint-Truiden has no reason to fear anyone.
There were no winners in Sint-Truiden's previous match, a Pro League home game that ended 2-2 vs Anderlecht (placed 6th). Midfield player Christian Brüls was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.05/10. Brüls served one assist, hit five key passes and had 38 successful passes (of 45 total).
A draw for Sint-Truiden before that, at their own venue hosting KV Oostende (1-1).As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Sint-Truiden in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Sint-Truiden, two draws and two defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Sint-Truiden manager B. Hollerbach as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against RFC Seraing.
Sint-Truiden find the net regularly in their away games. 5 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. It's not easy to score on Sint-Truiden as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): OH Leuven two wins, two draws and Sint-Truiden six victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Özkacar 2 goals |  L. Shengelia 2 goals |  M. Konate 2 goals |
OH Leuven missing players
Sint-Truiden missing players
| OH Leuven | Sint-Truiden | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 11 | 5 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 5 | 12 |
| 19 | 7 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 14 |
| 91% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 91% |
| 91% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 40% | 73% |
| 45% | 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 40% | 55% |
| 36% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 9% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 73% | 80% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 40% | 64% |
| 9% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 60% | 27% |
| 27% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 18% |
| 4.8 | 4.4 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 3.2 | 4.3 |
| 5.8 | 5.4 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 5.4 | 4.9 |
| 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3 | 2.6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 13.9 | 15.4 | 18 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.7 | 8.4 | 11.8 |
| 4.9 | 5.2 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 20% | 19% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 28% | 28% |
- Sint-Truiden have the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Pro League
- Sint-Truiden 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 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 22 |
| 2 | Club Brugge | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 22 |
| 3 | AS Eupen | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 20 |
| 4 | Antwerp | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 20 |
| 5 | Mechelen | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 19 |
| 6 | Anderlecht | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 17 |
| 7 | Sporting Charleroi | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 17 |
| 8 | Genk | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 17 |
| 9 | KV Oostende | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -3 | 17 |
| 10 | Kortrijk | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 15 |
| 11 | Sint-Truiden | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | -2 | 15 |
| 12 | Gent | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 14 |
| 13 | Standard Liege | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -7 | 14 |
| 14 | RFC Seraing | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 15 | -6 | 12 |
| 15 | Zulte-Waregem | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -7 | 12 |
| 16 | OH Leuven | 11 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | -8 | 10 |
| 17 | Cercle Brugge | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -6 | 8 |
| 18 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -16 | 2 |