Sint-Truiden vs Beerschot-Wilrijk match preview: Even contest expected at Stayen

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Wed 30.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stayen (14600 seats)

Season ticket holders at Stayen haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Sint-Truiden languishing in the 18th position so far. The guesting Beerschot-Wilrijk will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Insights:
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk has the most scored goals (39) in Pro League

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Sint-Truiden form and stats

2 victories, 3 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what Sint-Truiden have to build on here at Stayen in the Pro League.

Sint-Truiden are returning here after visiting Standard Liege in a Pro League game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Duckens Nazon and Yuma Suzuki scored the goal(s). A strong away win before that one, visiting Zulte-Waregem and winning 2-0.

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 Sint-Truiden have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won two, drawn two and lost one.

Sint-Truiden has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. Sint-Truiden's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 9 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Beerschot-Wilrijk form and stats

The visitors, who have the most scored goals (39) in Pro League, are W3-D1-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Pro League. Recent form does not give Beerschot-Wilrijk much hope, as the visitors have lost three games in a row. Sint-Truiden will be a tough nut to crack. Beerschot-Wilrijk seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Beerschot-Wilrijk are travelling again after losing away to Anderlecht in their previous match (0-2). Prior to that match, the Beerschot-Wilrijk manager H. Losada faced defeat when travelling to Royal Excel Mouscron and losing 1-3.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Beerschot-Wilrijk in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Beerschot-Wilrijk, two draws and three defeats.

The travelling fans enjoy Beerschot-Wilrijk's attacking play in away games, having scored 16 goals in 9 league matches away. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Beerschot-Wilrijk's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 24 goals in 9 travels.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Beerschot-Wilrijk - Sint-Truiden 6-3. As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's four Sint-Truiden victories, two draws and one Beerschot-Wilrijk win. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Beerschot-WilrijkR. Holzhauser
R. Holzhauser
11 goals
Sint-TruidenY. Suzuki
Y. Suzuki
7 goals
Beerschot-WilrijkT. Tissoudali
T. Tissoudali
7 goals

Sint-Truiden missing players

Beerschot-Wilrijk missing players

Sint-Truiden Beerschot-Wilrijk
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 8 4 Played P 2 9 17
4 2 2 Won W 1 3 9
5 3 2 Drew D 0 1 1
9 3 0 Lost L 1 5 7
22 9 4 Scored S 4 16 39
31 9 1 Conceded C 5 24 39
89% 75% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
83% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 88%
56% 50% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 78% 82%
28% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 67% 65%
17% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 44% 47%
61% 62% 25% BTTS BTTS 100% 78% 76%
22% 38% 75% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 6%
28% 25% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 11% 18%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.6 2.1 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.8 1.9
6 4 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.2 9.5 7 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 6.2 8.4
3.6 3.9 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.4 4.7
34% 29% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 57% 52% 49%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk has the fewest clean sheets (1) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk has the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk has the most conceded goals (24) away in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk has the most matches over the total-line (13) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk has the most scored goals (39) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk 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 Club Brugge 19 12 3 4 38 12 10 6 1 3 16 7 9 6 2 1 22 5 26 39
2 Genk 18 10 5 3 38 22 10 6 3 1 24 11 8 4 2 2 14 11 16 35
3 Sporting Charleroi 19 10 3 6 30 22 9 5 1 3 11 6 10 5 2 3 19 16 8 33
4 Anderlecht 19 8 8 3 30 22 10 6 4 0 15 6 9 2 4 3 15 16 8 32
5 Antwerp 19 9 4 6 33 27 10 5 3 2 17 13 9 4 1 4 16 14 6 31
6 OH Leuven 19 8 5 6 34 31 10 5 2 3 15 13 9 3 3 3 19 18 3 29
7 Beerschot-Wilrijk 17 9 1 7 39 39 8 6 0 2 23 15 9 3 1 5 16 24 0 28
8 Kortrijk 19 7 5 7 24 27 10 4 2 4 17 19 9 3 3 3 7 8 -3 26
9 KV Oostende 18 7 4 7 24 22 8 4 2 2 16 10 10 3 2 5 8 12 2 25
10 Gent 19 8 1 10 28 27 9 4 1 4 16 13 10 4 0 6 12 14 1 25
11 Standard Liege 19 6 7 6 22 21 10 3 5 2 12 11 9 3 2 4 10 10 1 25
12 Zulte-Waregem 18 6 3 9 23 32 10 2 2 6 11 21 8 4 1 3 12 11 -9 21
13 AS Eupen 16 4 8 4 18 24 7 2 3 2 9 11 9 2 5 2 9 13 -6 20
14 Mechelen 19 5 5 9 28 36 10 2 2 6 16 21 9 3 3 3 12 15 -8 20
15 Waasland-Beveren 19 5 4 10 25 39 9 2 1 6 10 19 10 3 3 4 15 20 -14 19
16 Cercle Brugge 18 6 0 12 25 33 9 3 0 6 16 19 9 3 0 6 9 14 -8 18
17 Royal Excel Mouscron 19 4 5 10 16 30 9 2 3 4 9 11 10 2 2 6 7 19 -14 17
18 Sint-Truiden 18 4 5 9 22 31 8 2 3 3 9 9 10 2 2 6 13 22 -9 17

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.