Can Sporting Charleroi beat AS Eupen in Stade du Pays de Charleroi clash?

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 18.April
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade du Pays de Charleroi (15000 seats)

With their 2 point advantage in the league table, Sporting Charleroi fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against AS Eupen.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

Charleroi are staying put; they can neither be promoted or relegated this season and are fighting only for positions. For Eupen most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

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Sporting Charleroi form and stats

Sporting Charleroi have collected 21 points from their Pro League home games so far after 5-6-5. With seven home Pro League games in a row without a win, the Sporting Charleroi fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the Anderlecht game long ago, can be stopped today.

No payout for Charleroi in their previous match, an away game at Gent that ended in defeat 0-4. Heartbreak before that as Charleroi lost 1-2 at Beerschot-Wilrijk's place.

Charleroi were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.

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 Charleroi have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eight games) they have won four times, drawn two and lost two.

Charleroi has scored 16 league goals at home this season, in 16 matches. Charleroi are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stade du Pays de Charleroi in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 13 from 16 matches.

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AS Eupen form and stats

4 wins, 7 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of AS Eupen playing as the away team in the Pro League this season.

Home advantage was not enough for Eupen in their previous game, as they lost their Pro League-match, hosting Standard Liege, 0-4. Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Zulte-Waregem's place.

As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Standard Liege was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.

We have checked recent matches where Eupen have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 13 games were three victories, four draws and six defeats.

Eupen are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 17 away goals from 16 games (in the league). As opposed to that, Eupen have seen the ball go into their own net 23 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result AS Eupen - Charleroi 3-1 entered in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Charleroi victories, three draws and three AS Eupen wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AS EupenS. Prevljak
S. Prevljak
13 goals
CharleroiM. Fall
M. Fall
9 goals
Sporting CharleroiS. Nicholson
S. Nicholson
9 goals

Sporting Charleroi missing players

AS Eupen missing players

Sporting Charleroi AS Eupen
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
33 16 5 Played P 5 16 33
11 5 1 Won W 0 4 9
9 6 3 Drew D 3 7 13
13 5 1 Lost L 2 5 11
44 16 4 Scored S 6 17 41
46 13 3 Conceded C 10 23 53
94% 88% 60% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 97%
79% 62% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 81% 91%
52% 25% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 80% 50% 52%
27% 6% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 25% 33%
12% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 9%
61% 44% 20% BTTS BTTS 80% 50% 61%
24% 38% 60% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 18%
21% 31% 60% Failed to Score F T 20% 31% 24%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 1.8 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.4 2.2 2.1
3 1 1 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
8.8 9.9 10.6 Shots (avg) S ( 12.6 8.7 8.9
3.8 4.6 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.6 3.8 3.8
35% 22% 19% Goal Efficiency G E 26% 28% 33%

  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 32 23 4 5 68 22 16 11 1 4 30 13 16 12 3 1 38 9 46 73
2 Antwerp 32 16 6 10 51 44 16 8 4 4 27 23 16 8 2 6 24 21 7 54
3 Genk 32 15 8 9 61 45 16 8 5 3 34 20 16 7 3 6 27 25 16 53
4 Anderlecht 32 13 13 6 48 33 16 8 7 1 23 10 16 5 6 5 25 23 15 52
5 KV Oostende 32 14 7 11 46 39 16 9 4 3 32 20 16 5 3 8 14 19 7 49
6 Beerschot-Wilrijk 32 14 5 13 57 59 16 7 4 5 31 27 16 7 1 8 26 32 -2 47
7 Standard Liege 33 12 11 10 49 41 16 6 7 3 23 20 17 6 4 7 26 21 8 47
8 Zulte-Waregem 33 14 4 15 51 62 16 6 2 8 21 31 17 8 2 7 30 31 -11 46
9 Gent 33 13 7 13 48 40 17 8 3 6 29 21 16 5 4 7 19 19 8 46
10 Mechelen 33 12 9 12 50 53 17 5 5 7 29 30 16 7 4 5 21 23 -3 45
11 OH Leuven 33 12 9 12 53 57 16 8 2 6 23 21 17 4 7 6 30 36 -4 45
12 Sporting Charleroi 33 11 9 13 44 46 16 5 6 5 16 13 17 6 3 8 28 33 -2 42
13 AS Eupen 33 9 13 11 41 53 17 5 6 6 24 30 16 4 7 5 17 23 -12 40
14 Sint-Truiden 32 10 8 14 41 47 16 6 3 7 20 19 16 4 5 7 21 28 -6 38
15 Kortrijk 32 10 6 16 39 50 16 5 2 9 23 31 16 5 4 7 16 19 -11 36
16 Cercle Brugge 33 11 2 20 39 50 17 6 1 10 25 26 16 5 1 10 14 24 -11 35
17 Royal Excel Mouscron 32 7 10 15 28 47 16 4 5 7 15 19 16 3 5 8 13 28 -19 31
18 Waasland-Beveren 32 7 7 18 39 65 16 3 2 11 18 36 16 4 5 7 21 29 -26 28

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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.