Pro League preview: Can Sint-Truiden edge out victory against Standard Liège?

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Fri 09.September
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Stayen (14600 seats)

The league standings shows that 0 points separate the pair of two sets of gladiators in this Pro League fixture. Sint-Truiden enjoy both the points- and home advantage.

Insights:
  • All of Sint-Truiden's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Standard Liège have scored in all their matches so far.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Sint-Truiden form and stats

The story so far in the Pro League for Sint-Truiden at their home stadium (Stadion Stayen) is 1 win, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

The Sint-Truiden coach Hollerbach and his gang return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Genk (placed 2nd). Schmidt, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 8.04 out of 10 in that game. Schmidt topped it up with a clean sheet.

Before that game, the 3-1 home victory against Mechelen.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sint-Truiden handle that role? We have found 9 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

Sint-Truiden has scored 4 league goals at home this season, in 3 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Sint-Truiden defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Standard Liège form and stats

Standard Liège are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Pro League, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).

The Standard Liège goalkeeper Arnaud Bodart is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 195 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Standard are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the match against KV Oostende (placed 14th). Bodart was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.32. The agile goalkeeper Bodart topped it up with a clean sheet.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Kortrijk at their stadium, the result 1-0.

Standard Liège are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats. From a total of 4 matches.

Standard Liège have scored 4 goals on their travels this season, from 3 away games in the league. The Standard Liège manager Deila has some worries about the defense as 7 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

The 4 latest meetings involving these opponents have all ended as Sint-Truiden victories. Will history repeat itself?

Top Goalscorers

Standard LiègeS. Amallah
S. Amallah
4 goals
Sint-TruidenD. Hayashi
D. Hayashi
2 goals
Sint-TruidenG. Bruno
G. Bruno
2 goals

Sint-Truiden missing players

Standard Liège missing players

Sint-Truiden Standard Liège
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
7 3 3 Played P 1 3 7
2 1 1 Won W 0 1 3
4 1 1 Drew D 0 0 1
1 1 1 Lost L 1 2 3
6 4 4 Scored S 1 4 10
6 5 5 Conceded C 3 7 12
71% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
57% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 71%
29% 67% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 57%
14% 33% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 67% 57%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 14%
43% 67% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 57%
43% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 43%
43% 33% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4.7 3.3 3.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4 6.3 5.9
4.7 4.3 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5 5.7
2.3 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 4.3 3.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
11.6 11 11 Shots (avg) S ( 11 13 13.7
3.1 3.7 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4 4.9
27% 36% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 33% 29%
 
11.7 9.7 9.7 Shots against (avg) S A 16 12.3 12.9
4.4 4 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 5 5
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • All of Sint-Truiden's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Sint-Truiden have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Standard Liège have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Standard Liège 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 Antwerp 6 6 0 0 14 5 3 3 0 0 9 4 3 3 0 0 5 1 9 18
2 Genk 7 5 1 1 19 8 4 3 1 0 9 4 3 2 0 1 10 4 11 16
3 Club Brugge 7 5 1 1 17 7 4 3 1 0 10 4 3 2 0 1 7 3 10 16
4 OH Leuven 6 4 0 2 11 9 3 2 0 1 4 4 3 2 0 1 7 5 2 12
5 Gent 6 3 2 1 10 7 3 1 1 1 4 4 3 2 1 0 6 3 3 11
6 Sint-Truiden 7 2 4 1 6 6 3 1 1 1 4 5 4 1 3 0 2 1 0 10
7 Standard Liège 7 3 1 3 10 12 4 2 1 1 6 5 3 1 0 2 4 7 -2 10
8 Union Saint-Gilloise 6 3 1 2 8 10 3 3 0 0 5 2 3 0 1 2 3 8 -2 10
9 Anderlecht 6 3 0 3 9 5 3 2 0 1 5 2 3 1 0 2 4 3 4 9
10 Sporting Charleroi 6 3 0 3 9 9 3 1 0 2 5 7 3 2 0 1 4 2 0 9
11 Mechelen 7 2 1 4 12 14 4 2 0 2 10 9 3 0 1 2 2 5 -2 7
12 Kortrijk 7 2 1 4 4 7 3 0 1 2 0 3 4 2 0 2 4 4 -3 7
13 Westerlo 6 2 0 4 11 12 3 2 0 1 6 3 3 0 0 3 5 9 -1 6
14 KV Oostende 7 2 0 5 7 11 3 1 0 2 3 5 4 1 0 3 4 6 -4 6
15 AS Eupen 7 2 0 5 7 13 4 1 0 3 3 6 3 1 0 2 4 7 -6 6
16 RFC Seraing 7 2 0 5 7 14 3 0 0 3 0 6 4 2 0 2 7 8 -7 6
17 Zulte-Waregem 6 1 2 3 6 10 3 1 0 2 4 7 3 0 2 1 2 3 -4 5
18 Cercle Brugge 7 1 2 4 3 11 3 1 2 0 2 1 4 0 0 4 1 10 -8 5

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.