Pro League game tips and match guide for the Sint-Truiden vs RFC Seraing scrap

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 22.January
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)

Very important shoot-out in the bottom section of the Pro League, with both Sint-Truiden and RFC Seraing suffering more distress than bliss. This fixture is a classic "six-pointer" with the hosts positioned 13th and the visiting team in 17th position.

Insights:
  • Sint-Truiden have the most matches over the total-line (12) in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing have the most conceded goals (26) away in Pro League

This arena has artifical turf, which is not RFC Seraing's familiar surface at their own football field. When appearing on artifical turf RFC Seraing have performed like this: Played two matches producing 0 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat with the goal difference 2-3 (scored/conceded).

Both teams have had adequate rest since their previous game. Let's aim for an active fixture!

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Sint-Truiden form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Pro League this season. Sint-Truiden have only managed 3 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses from their games here.

The fans are hoping that Sint-Truiden will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Pro League game against Club Brugge (placed 2nd). Schmidt had a busy but productive day in the Club Brugge match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented. The goalie Schmidt was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.84 out of ten. Schmidt stopped the opponent with six saves.

Ahead of that match, Sint-Truiden won a home game hosting AS Eupen (2-0).

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Sint-Truiden's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won one match, drawn two and lost zero.

The manager Hollerbach will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Antwerp in only three days.

The Sint-Truiden fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 14 in 11 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Sint-Truiden defense is not exactly impregnable. 18 goals conceded from 11 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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RFC Seraing form and stats

RFC Seraing have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Pro League, after 2-0-9 (11 played). With the RFC Seraing losing streak of five defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking.

The attacking players of Seraing have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 405 minutes.

RFC Seraing lost away at Mechelen (0-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Maziz, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.64. Maziz hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against Kortrijk.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Seraing when being an outsider away as they are today, we find three matches with the visitors losing two times, drawing zero and winning one game.

A new game in only four days for RFC Seraing, the Pro League home match versus Beerschot-Wilrijk. Busy days.

The visitors have scored 10 goals from 11 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. The RFC Seraing manager Garcia has some worries about the defense as 26 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

The most recent registered history featuring both these participants is the RFC Seraing - Sint-Truiden 2-0 played previously this season. Previous four meetings featuring these squads: Sint-Truiden won zero, RFC Seraing were winners in three and we saw one draw. three games with more than 2,5 goals, one match with under 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

RFC SeraingG. Mikautadze
G. Mikautadze
7 goals
RFC SeraingY. Maziz
Y. Maziz
6 goals
RFC SeraingA. Jallow
A. Jallow
4 goals

Sint-Truiden missing players

RFC Seraing missing players

Sint-Truiden RFC Seraing
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 2 Played P 1 11 21
7 3 0 Won W 0 2 6
3 2 1 Drew D 0 0 1
12 6 1 Lost L 1 9 14
22 14 2 Scored S 0 10 23
33 18 4 Conceded C 3 26 42
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
82% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 86%
55% 73% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 73% 62%
14% 18% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 27% 33%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 24%
59% 82% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 45% 43%
23% 9% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
23% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 55% 48%
 
4.7 5.4 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 8 3.9 4.5
4.6 4.6 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 9 6.3 5.2
2.4 2.1 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2.2 2.1
3 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
11.4 13.2 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 12 10.4 11.4
3.8 4.3 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.9 3.5
26% 30% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 31% 32%
 
11.9 11.2 11 Shots against (avg) S A 21 16.3 13.3
4.1 4.2 5.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 6.3 5.7
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • All of RFC Seraing's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Sint-Truiden's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • RFC Seraing have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • RFC Seraing have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • RFC Seraing have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • RFC Seraing have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing have the most conceded goals (26) away in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing have the the worst goal difference (-16) away in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing 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 most matches over the total-line (12) in Pro League
  • Sint-Truiden haven’t played a single 0-0 game at 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 Union Saint-Gilloise 21 15 2 4 50 20 11 7 1 3 23 11 10 8 1 1 27 9 30 47
2 Club Brugge 22 12 7 3 43 28 11 6 5 0 24 12 11 6 2 3 19 16 15 43
3 Anderlecht 21 10 8 3 50 26 10 5 4 1 25 14 11 5 4 2 25 12 24 38
4 Antwerp 20 11 4 5 37 24 10 6 2 2 21 12 10 5 2 3 16 12 13 37
5 Gent 22 10 5 7 35 24 11 7 2 2 24 13 11 3 3 5 11 11 11 35
6 Sporting Charleroi 21 10 5 6 38 29 10 4 2 4 13 12 11 6 3 2 25 17 9 35
7 Mechelen 21 10 3 8 37 37 11 7 2 2 23 15 10 3 1 6 14 22 0 33
8 Kortrijk 21 8 8 5 28 24 9 4 3 2 12 10 12 4 5 3 16 14 4 32
9 Genk 21 8 5 8 40 33 10 4 3 3 20 15 11 4 2 5 20 18 7 29
10 OH Leuven 21 6 8 7 29 34 11 4 3 4 14 17 10 2 5 3 15 17 -5 26
11 Cercle Brugge 21 7 4 10 28 28 11 3 2 6 12 14 10 4 2 4 16 14 0 25
12 AS Eupen 21 7 4 10 30 36 10 3 3 4 13 17 11 4 1 6 17 19 -6 25
13 Sint-Truiden 22 7 3 12 22 33 11 3 2 6 14 18 11 4 1 6 8 15 -11 24
14 KV Oostende 21 7 2 12 23 43 11 4 1 6 13 27 10 3 1 6 10 16 -20 23
15 Standard Liege 20 6 5 9 22 34 10 2 3 5 9 16 10 4 2 4 13 18 -12 23
16 Zulte-Waregem 21 6 5 10 31 45 11 3 2 6 17 27 10 3 3 4 14 18 -14 23
17 RFC Seraing 21 6 1 14 23 42 10 4 1 5 13 16 11 2 0 9 10 26 -19 19
18 Beerschot-Wilrijk 20 2 3 15 15 41 11 2 0 9 5 20 9 0 3 6 10 21 -26 9

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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.