Pro League prediction and preview: Sint-Truiden modest favorites to beat OH Leuven

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 17.January
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stayen (14600 seats)

Struggling Sint-Truiden will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying OH Leuven in the upcoming league round. It’s 15th vs 4th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • OH Leuven have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

OH Leuven play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artifical turf. Recent stats for OH Leuven when playing on artifical turf are 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat from one match. They have scored 0 goals and conceded 2 times in these games.

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Sint-Truiden form and stats

Sint-Truiden have collected 12 points from their Pro League home games so far after 3-3-4.

Sint-Truiden's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Club Brugge (placed 1st). Previous to that game, a home match hosting Beerschot-Wilrijk in a game that was won 1-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sint-Truiden handle that role? We have found five games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, zero draws and one defeat.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Sint-Truiden as they are travelling to their away game against Kortrijk in the Pro League. That match is three days after this one.

Sint-Truiden are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 11 goals in 10 games. Sint-Truiden's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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OH Leuven form and stats

The visitors are W3-D3-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Pro League.

Leuven had fun at their own home (Stayen) last time out, beating Anderlecht 1-0. Thomas Henry scored. A 1-2 loss hosting KV Oostende before that.

We have checked recent matches where Leuven have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those seven games were four victories, zero draws and three defeats.

The schedule is very tough for OH Leuven now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Pro League game at Zulte-Waregem is waiting in only four days.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Leuven are regular goalscorers on their travels. OH Leuven have conceded 18 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: OH Leuven - Sint-Truiden 2-2. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Sint-Truiden won six games, two matches ended with a draw and OH Leuven has two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: eight / two

Top Goalscorers

OH LeuvenT. Henry
T. Henry
14 goals
Sint-TruidenY. Suzuki
Y. Suzuki
8 goals
Sint-TruidenD. Nazon
D. Nazon
6 goals

Sint-Truiden missing players

OH Leuven missing players

Sint-Truiden OH Leuven
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 10 4 Played P 2 9 20
5 3 0 Won W 1 3 9
5 3 0 Drew D 1 3 5
10 4 4 Lost L 0 3 6
24 11 5 Scored S 5 19 35
33 11 9 Conceded C 3 18 31
90% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
80% 70% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 90%
55% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 89% 75%
25% 10% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 78% 45%
15% 10% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 15%
60% 60% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 89% 80%
25% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 20%
25% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.5 2.1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2 1.6
7 5 4 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
7.4 7.6 10.2 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 9.3 9.4
3.2 3.1 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4.3 4.2
38% 35% 42% Goal Efficiency G E 71% 49% 42%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • All of OH Leuven's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • OH Leuven have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • OH Leuven have scored in all their matches so far.
  • OH Leuven 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 20 13 3 4 40 13 10 6 1 3 16 7 10 7 2 1 24 6 27 42
2 Genk 20 11 5 4 43 25 10 6 3 1 24 11 10 5 2 3 19 14 18 38
3 Sporting Charleroi 20 10 3 7 32 25 9 5 1 3 11 6 11 5 2 4 21 19 7 33
4 OH Leuven 20 9 5 6 35 31 11 6 2 3 16 13 9 3 3 3 19 18 4 32
5 Anderlecht 20 8 8 4 30 23 10 6 4 0 15 6 10 2 4 4 15 17 7 32
6 Antwerp 20 9 4 7 33 30 10 5 3 2 17 13 10 4 1 5 16 17 3 31
7 Beerschot-Wilrijk 19 9 2 8 40 41 9 6 1 2 24 16 10 3 1 6 16 25 -1 29
8 Kortrijk 20 8 5 7 26 28 11 5 2 4 19 20 9 3 3 3 7 8 -2 29
9 Standard Liege 20 7 7 6 25 22 11 4 5 2 15 12 9 3 2 4 10 10 3 28
10 KV Oostende 19 8 4 7 27 24 9 5 2 2 19 12 10 3 2 5 8 12 3 28
11 Zulte-Waregem 20 8 3 9 27 34 11 3 2 6 12 21 9 5 1 3 15 13 -7 27
12 Gent 20 8 2 10 29 28 9 4 1 4 16 13 11 4 1 6 13 15 1 26
13 Mechelen 20 6 5 9 31 36 11 3 2 6 19 21 9 3 3 3 12 15 -5 23
14 AS Eupen 19 5 8 6 23 32 9 2 3 4 12 18 10 3 5 2 11 14 -9 23
15 Sint-Truiden 20 5 5 10 24 33 10 3 3 4 11 11 10 2 2 6 13 22 -9 20
16 Waasland-Beveren 20 5 4 11 26 42 9 2 1 6 10 19 11 3 3 5 16 23 -16 19
17 Cercle Brugge 19 6 0 13 26 35 10 3 0 7 17 21 9 3 0 6 9 14 -9 18
18 Royal Excel Mouscron 20 4 5 11 16 31 9 2 3 4 9 11 11 2 2 7 7 20 -15 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.