Delightful dogfight as daring Sint-Truiden duel with determined Kortrijk

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 04.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Stayen (14600 seats)

Sint-Truiden have won 32 points performing as the hosts. Kortrijk have brought back 22 points using the away locker rooms. Could we look at anything else than a home win?

Insights:
  • Sint-Truiden have the fewest matches over the total-line (9) in Pro League
  • Kortrijk have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Sint-Truiden form and stats

3-3-5 (win-draw-lost) are the Pro League numbers at home for Sint-Truiden so far this season.

The Sint-Truiden coach Hollerbach and his pawns return home after a 1-1 draw away versus OH Leuven (placed 9th). Janssens, defender, was given a rating of 7.65/10 in that game, top of the team. Janssens won 4 of 5 duels.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Gent (0-3).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Sint-Truiden have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 12 games) they have won 4 times, drawn 2 and lost 6.

Sint-Truiden aren't scoring a lot here at Stadion Stayen in the league, with only {10 goals} from 11 games. Sint-Truiden have conceded 14 in these home matches.

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Kortrijk form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Kortrijk so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 3-1-7 (win-draw-lose). Kortrijk has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Kortrijk's last game was the home draw against KV Oostende (2-2). As mentioned above, Kortrijk drew the match against KV Oostende. Manager Storck brought on Gueye to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. The attacker Avenatti got a match rating of 7.63 in that game. Avenatti served one assist and hit four key passes.

Preceding that game, the 2-3 loss visiting Mechelen's place.

Kortrijk are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 13 of this club's 16 latest league games have ended with three goals or more.

The visiting Kortrijk have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 15 goals from 11 games.

Head 2 Head

Kortrijk - Sint-Truiden 0-0 was the end result in these participants' latest h2h fixture, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sint-Truiden three wins, three draws and Kortrijk four victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Sint-TruidenG. Bruno
G. Bruno
10 goals
Sint-TruidenD. Hayashi
D. Hayashi
7 goals
KortrijkF. Selemani
F. Selemani
6 goals

Sint-Truiden missing players

Kortrijk missing players

Sint-Truiden Kortrijk
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 3 Played P 3 11 23
8 3 2 Won W 1 3 6
8 3 0 Drew D 1 1 4
7 5 1 Lost L 1 7 13
24 10 5 Scored S 6 15 26
25 14 2 Conceded C 8 22 44
87% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
74% 73% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 82% 78%
39% 45% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 82% 65%
9% 9% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 45% 43%
4% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 27% 22%
43% 45% 33% BTTS BTTS 100% 82% 65%
30% 18% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 18% 17%
39% 45% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 22%
 
4.3 4.7 6.7 Corners for (avg) C F 7.3 4.3 4.5
4.4 3.7 2.3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.7 7.5 6.7
1.8 1.2 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.3 2.4
5 3 0 Red cards R C 0 3 6
 
12 13.2 15.7 Shots (avg) S ( 11.3 9.5 11
2.3 2.3 2.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.3 3.7
44% 40% 71% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 42% 31%
 
10.5 10 5.7 Shots against (avg) S A 12.3 19.1 17.8
3 2.8 1.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.7 5.4
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Kortrijk have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Kortrijk have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Kortrijk haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Sint-Truiden have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sint-Truiden have the fewest matches over the total-line (9) in Pro League
  • Sint-Truiden have the most matches under the total-line (14) in Pro League

  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 21 18 1 2 52 19 11 10 1 0 29 9 10 8 0 2 23 10 33 55
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 23 16 4 3 46 24 11 8 2 1 19 8 12 8 2 2 27 16 22 52
3 Antwerp 22 14 3 5 42 23 11 9 1 1 26 9 11 5 2 4 16 14 19 45
4 Gent 22 11 5 6 37 21 11 6 3 2 18 10 11 5 2 4 19 11 16 38
5 Club Brugge 22 10 7 5 40 28 12 6 5 1 26 14 10 4 2 4 14 14 12 37
6 Standard Liege 23 11 4 8 37 29 12 7 2 3 25 12 11 4 2 5 12 17 8 37
7 Westerlo 23 10 4 9 44 39 12 6 2 4 28 17 11 4 2 5 16 22 5 34
8 Sint-Truiden 23 8 8 7 24 25 11 3 3 5 10 14 12 5 5 2 14 11 -1 32
9 OH Leuven 23 8 7 8 37 34 11 4 3 4 17 16 12 4 4 4 20 18 3 31
10 Cercle Brugge 22 8 6 8 29 30 10 4 4 2 16 10 12 4 2 6 13 20 -1 30
11 Anderlecht 22 8 3 11 31 32 11 4 1 6 18 17 11 4 2 5 13 15 -1 27
12 Sporting Charleroi 22 8 3 11 28 35 11 4 1 6 14 17 11 4 2 5 14 18 -7 27
13 Mechelen 22 7 4 11 30 40 12 6 3 3 23 19 10 1 1 8 7 21 -10 25
14 Kortrijk 23 6 4 13 26 44 12 3 3 6 11 22 11 3 1 7 15 22 -18 22
15 Zulte-Waregem 22 5 5 12 29 46 11 3 2 6 18 29 11 2 3 6 11 17 -17 20
16 AS Eupen 22 6 2 14 28 46 10 3 0 7 11 18 12 3 2 7 17 28 -18 20
17 KV Oostende 23 5 3 15 25 51 11 4 0 7 13 22 12 1 3 8 12 29 -26 18
18 RFC Seraing 22 4 3 15 21 40 11 0 2 9 4 17 11 4 1 6 17 23 -19 15

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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.