Balanced ball game between OH Leuven and Sporting Charleroi expected

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 10.September
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: King Power at Den Dreef Stadion (12500 seats)

The OH Leuven & Sporting Charleroi head coaches Brys and Still are both afraid of and looking forward to this important game in the top part of the Pro League positions.

Insights:
  • All of OH Leuven's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Sporting Charleroi haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

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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OH Leuven form and stats

OH Leuven have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the Pro League. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.

OH Leuven drew their last game, 2-2 away at Anderlecht (placed 8th). Al-Taamari (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.32/10. Al-Taamari scored one goal, served one assist and hit three key passes.

Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against KV Oostende.

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 Leuven have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 9 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 3 and lost 2.

Goals keep coming in this club's league fixtures, with 5 in a row featuring three or more goals (over 2.5).

OH Leuven has scored 4 league goals at home this season, in 3 matches. On the other hand, Leuven have conceded 4 goals.

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Sporting Charleroi form and stats

It's gone fairly well in the Pro League away games so far for Sporting Charleroi with six points collected from three matches. Sporting Charleroi has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Morioka and Zorgane scored in Sporting Charleroi's previous match, the home game against Gent that ended 2-1. Morioka got a match rating of 8.44 in that game, top player of the team. Morioka scored one goal, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 54 successful passes (of 63 total).

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-3 defeat against Club Brugge.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Charleroi playing away and similar expectations, we found 10 relevant matches. Results were 5 Sporting Charleroi wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

The visiting Sporting Charleroi have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 4 goals from 3 games. Sporting Charleroi are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 2 times in 3 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Leuven victories, four draws and three Sporting Charleroi wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

OH LeuvenM. Al Tamari
M. Al Tamari
3 goals
OH LeuvenJ. Thorsteinsson
J. Thorsteinsson
3 goals
OH LeuvenM. Maertens
M. Maertens
2 goals

OH Leuven missing players

Sporting Charleroi missing players

OH Leuven Sporting Charleroi
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
7 3 1 Played P 1 3 7
4 2 0 Won W 0 2 4
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 1 1 Lost L 1 1 3
13 4 0 Scored S 0 4 11
11 4 3 Conceded C 1 2 10
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 33% 71%
71% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 71%
43% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 57%
14% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
57% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 71%
29% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 14%
14% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 100% 33% 14%
 
4.3 4.7 7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 5 4.6
7.7 6 5 Corners against (avg) C A 8 4.3 4
1.7 2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.3 1.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.1 13 14 Shots (avg) S ( 6 11.7 13.6
4.4 4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 5 5.6
42% 33% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 27% 28%
 
17.6 14.3 13 Shots against (avg) S A 17 12.7 11.1
4.6 3.7 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 4.3 4.9
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • All of OH Leuven's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • OH Leuven haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sporting Charleroi haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 7 7 0 0 17 5 4 4 0 0 12 4 3 3 0 0 5 1 12 21
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 7 4 1 2 13 11 3 2 0 1 4 4 4 2 1 1 9 7 2 13
5 Union Saint-Gilloise 7 4 1 2 11 11 3 3 0 0 5 2 4 1 1 2 6 9 0 13
6 Sporting Charleroi 7 4 0 3 11 10 4 2 0 2 7 8 3 2 0 1 4 2 1 12
7 Gent 7 3 2 2 11 9 3 1 1 1 4 4 4 2 1 1 7 5 2 11
8 Anderlecht 7 3 1 3 11 7 4 2 1 1 7 4 3 1 0 2 4 3 4 10
9 Sint-Truiden 7 2 4 1 6 6 3 1 1 1 4 5 4 1 3 0 2 1 0 10
10 Standard Liege 7 3 1 3 10 12 4 2 1 1 6 5 3 1 0 2 4 7 -2 10
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 7 2 0 5 11 15 3 2 0 1 6 3 4 0 0 4 5 12 -4 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 7 1 2 4 7 13 4 1 0 3 5 10 3 0 2 1 2 3 -6 5
18 Cercle Brugge 7 1 2 4 3 11 3 1 2 0 2 1 4 0 0 4 1 10 -8 5

Read more about Pro League

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.