Royal Excel Mouscron vs Standard Liège match preview

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 07.March
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Le Canonnier

Season ticket holders at Stade Le Canonnier haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Royal Excel Mouscron languishing in the 17th position so far. The guesting Standard Liège will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Insights:
  • Royal Excel Mouscron have the fewest scored goals (26) in Pro League
  • Standard Liège have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Standard Liège could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Belgian Cup game only three sleeps ago.

Standard are still fighting for top positions and their benefits.

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Royal Excel Mouscron form and stats

With 3 Pro League wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats from their home games, Royal Excel Mouscron, who have the fewest scored goals (26) in Pro League, are certainly not brimming with confidence. The Mouscron manager A. Rocha Simão might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.

Royal Excel Mouscron travelled for their previous game, a trip to Beerschot-Wilrijk that ended 2-2. Ahead of that match, Mouscron lost 1-2 at home to Cercle Brugge.

Opportunity lost for Royal Excel Mouscron in the Beerschot-Wilrijk match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw.

Mouscron are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 14 goals in 14 games. Mouscron's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 18 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Standard Liège form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Pro League travels is 5 wins, 3 draws and 6 defeats. Standard seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Standard won their last game, 1-0 versus Club Brugge played at home. Preceding that, the 1-3 home loss versus Anderlecht.

The visiting Standard have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 20 goals from 14 games. 18 goals have been conceded by Standard in these games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Standard Liège - Royal Excel Mouscron 0-1. Royal Excel Mouscron-Standard Liège H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Mouscron two wins, Standard Liège five wins, three draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Standard LiègeS. Amallah
S. Amallah
6 goals
Standard LiègeM. Balikwisha
M. Balikwisha
6 goals
Royal Excel MouscronN. da Costa Jóia
N. da Costa Jóia
5 goals

Royal Excel Mouscron missing players

Standard Liège missing players

Royal Excel Mouscron Standard Liège
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 14 5 Played P 4 14 29
6 3 1 Won W 2 5 10
9 5 2 Drew D 0 3 10
14 6 2 Lost L 2 6 9
26 14 6 Scored S 4 20 41
45 18 6 Conceded C 5 18 37
97% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 93%
79% 71% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 79% 76%
41% 36% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 64% 59%
21% 21% 40% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 34%
7% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 7%
48% 50% 60% BTTS BTTS 50% 57% 66%
14% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 29% 24%
41% 43% 40% Failed to Score F T 25% 21% 17%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.3 2.6 2.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.8 1.9
4 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
6.2 5.1 6.2 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 7.8 8.3
2.7 2.1 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.5 3.6
33% 47% 60% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 41% 39%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Royal Excel Mouscron have the fewest scored goals (26) in Pro League
  • Royal Excel Mouscron have the most conceded goals in the second half (33) in Pro League
  • Standard Liège have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 27 20 3 4 58 18 14 10 1 3 27 11 13 10 2 1 31 7 40 63
2 Antwerp 29 14 6 9 44 38 14 7 4 3 22 17 15 7 2 6 22 21 6 48
3 Genk 29 13 7 9 54 41 14 7 4 3 30 18 15 6 3 6 24 23 13 46
4 KV Oostende 29 13 7 9 45 36 15 9 4 2 32 18 14 4 3 7 13 18 9 46
5 Anderlecht 29 11 12 6 39 30 14 7 6 1 18 8 15 4 6 5 21 22 9 45
6 Zulte-Waregem 29 13 4 12 46 50 15 5 2 8 19 30 14 8 2 4 27 20 -4 43
7 OH Leuven 29 12 7 10 46 46 15 8 2 5 21 18 14 4 5 5 25 28 0 43
8 Beerschot-Wilrijk 29 12 5 12 52 55 15 6 4 5 29 26 14 6 1 7 23 29 -3 41
9 Mechelen 29 11 7 11 42 46 15 4 4 7 23 26 14 7 3 4 19 20 -4 40
10 Standard Liège 29 10 10 9 41 37 15 5 7 3 21 19 14 5 3 6 20 18 4 40
11 Sporting Charleroi 28 11 6 11 41 38 13 5 3 5 14 11 15 6 3 6 27 27 3 39
12 Gent 28 10 7 11 41 34 13 5 3 5 23 17 15 5 4 6 18 17 7 37
13 Kortrijk 29 10 6 13 36 42 15 5 2 8 22 29 14 5 4 5 14 13 -6 36
14 AS Eupen 29 8 12 9 35 44 14 4 5 5 19 23 15 4 7 4 16 21 -9 36
15 Sint-Truiden 29 8 7 14 35 44 15 5 3 7 18 18 14 3 4 7 17 26 -9 31
16 Cercle Brugge 29 9 2 18 34 46 15 4 1 10 20 25 14 5 1 8 14 21 -12 29
17 Royal Excel Mouscron 29 6 9 14 26 45 14 3 5 6 14 18 15 3 4 8 12 27 -19 27
18 Waasland-Beveren 29 6 7 16 34 59 14 3 2 9 15 30 15 3 5 7 19 29 -25 25

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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.