Pro League match prediction and preview for Sint-Truiden vs Standard Liège clash

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 25.October
Match begins: 17:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stayen (14600 seats)

Struggling Sint-Truiden will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Standard Liège in the upcoming league round. It’s 16th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

The visiting Standard Liège played their last game only three days ago, a Europa League match.

Sint-Truiden's stadium, Stayen, has a artifical turf surface. Standard Liège have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Standard Liège when playing on artifical turf; 0 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss from two matches. They have scored 2 goals in these games and conceded 3.

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Sint-Truiden form and stats

1 victory, 2 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Sint-Truiden have to build on here at Stayen in the Pro League.

The fans are hoping that Sint-Truiden will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 3-6 away loss in the Pro League game against Beerschot-Wilrijk (placed 4th). Before that, Sint-Truiden drew at home versus Kortrijk.

A goal frenzy last time out for Sint-Truiden, with a total of 9 goals in the match against Beerschot-Wilrijk. Fun stuff to watch!

The Sint-Truiden fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 4 in 4 matches. Sint-Truiden's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 4 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Standard Liège form and stats

3-0-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Standard Liège in their Pro League matches away.

Home advantage was not enough for Standard Liège in their previous game, as they lost their Europa League-match, hosting Rangers, 0-2. A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Club Brugge in the Pro League.

The schedule is very tough for Standard now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Europa League game at Benfica is waiting in only four days.

Standard has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 7 goals from 4 games. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (3 so far).

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: three wins for Sint-Truiden, five draws and two wins for Standard Liège. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.

Top Goalscorers

Sint-TruidenY. Suzuki
Y. Suzuki
3 goals
Sint-TruidenS. Lee
S. Lee
2 goals
Standard LiègeS. Amallah
S. Amallah
2 goals

Sint-Truiden missing players

Standard Liège missing players

Sint-Truiden Standard Liège
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 4 1 Played P 1 4 9
1 1 0 Won W 1 3 5
3 2 0 Drew D 0 0 3
5 1 1 Lost L 0 1 1
9 4 2 Scored S 2 7 13
19 4 3 Conceded C 1 3 7
78% 50% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
78% 50% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 67%
56% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 75% 56%
33% 25% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 11%
22% 25% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
56% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 56%
22% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 33%
44% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 22%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.8 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.5 2.2
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
56 32 9 Total Shots T S 18 41 83
30 18 5 Shots on Target S O 8 19 38
30% 22% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 37% 34%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Sint-Truiden has the most conceded goals in the first half (12) in Pro League
  • Sint-Truiden have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Standard Liège have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Standard Liège have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • Standard Liège haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 9 6 1 2 22 6 5 3 0 2 9 4 4 3 1 0 13 2 16 19
2 Sporting Charleroi 9 6 1 2 15 7 4 3 0 1 7 3 5 3 1 1 8 4 8 19
3 Standard Liège 9 5 3 1 13 7 5 2 3 0 6 4 4 3 0 1 7 3 6 18
4 Beerschot-Wilrijk 9 6 0 3 22 20 5 4 0 1 17 11 4 2 0 2 5 9 2 18
5 Antwerp 9 5 2 2 18 12 4 2 2 0 8 4 5 3 0 2 10 8 6 17
6 Cercle Brugge 9 5 0 4 16 12 4 3 0 1 10 4 5 2 0 3 6 8 4 15
7 OH Leuven 9 4 3 2 15 14 4 2 1 1 5 5 5 2 2 1 10 9 1 15
8 Anderlecht 9 3 5 1 17 14 5 2 3 0 9 5 4 1 2 1 8 9 3 14
9 Kortrijk 9 4 2 3 11 10 4 1 1 2 5 6 5 3 1 1 6 4 1 14
10 Genk 9 3 4 2 14 14 5 2 2 1 9 7 4 1 2 1 5 7 0 13
11 KV Oostende 8 3 3 2 12 8 4 2 1 1 9 5 4 1 2 1 3 3 4 12
12 AS Eupen 9 2 5 2 10 12 4 1 1 2 4 8 5 1 4 0 6 4 -2 11
13 Gent 9 3 0 6 14 16 4 2 0 2 9 6 5 1 0 4 5 10 -2 9
14 Mechelen 9 2 1 6 10 16 5 1 1 3 7 8 4 1 0 3 3 8 -6 7
15 Zulte-Waregem 9 2 1 6 11 21 5 1 0 4 6 14 4 1 1 2 5 7 -10 7
16 Sint-Truiden 9 1 3 5 9 19 4 1 2 1 4 4 5 0 1 4 5 15 -10 6
17 Waasland-Beveren 8 1 1 6 12 22 4 0 1 3 5 10 4 1 0 3 7 12 -10 4
18 Royal Excel Mouscron 9 0 3 6 3 14 5 0 1 4 1 6 4 0 2 2 2 8 -11 3

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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.