Sporting Charleroi vs Genk Preview & Prediction 06 May 2022

A peek at the Pro League table shows that this is top- against mid-table, but there's plenty more to learn about the fixture. Read our Sporting Charleroi - Genk guide!

Insights:

Sporting Charleroi have the most clean sheets (9) at home in Pro League
Genk haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Genk are still fighting for top positions and their benefits.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Sporting Charleroi form and stats

The story so far in the Pro League for Sporting Charleroi at their home stadium (Stade du Pays de Charleroi) is 7 wins, 5 draws and 5 defeats.

The Sporting Charleroi crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-3 to Gent here at Stade du Pays de Charleroi. Midfielder Heymans was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.62 (out of ten) in that game. Heymans hit three key passes and had 31 successful passes (of 36 total).

Heartbreak before that as Charleroi lost 0-1 at Mechelen's place.

The manager Still will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Genk in only four days.

Sporting Charleroi are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 24 goals in 17 games. Sporting 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 16 from 17 matches.

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Genk form and stats

As the visiting team in Pro League matches, Genk have produced an overall stat of 5-3-9 so far. The fact that Genk have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.

Impressive finishing from Bongonda (2), Muñoz and Paintsil secured the home win 4-2 against Mechelen in their previous game. As you can tell from the result, the match against Mechelen was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Genk goalie Vandevoordt was high and low in the Mechelen game, contributing six saves towards the victory. The attacker Ito got a match rating of 7.75 in that game. Ito served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 6 times.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Gent with the score of 1-0.

A quick return to home after this game, as Genk are hosting Sporting Charleroi in the Pro League only four days away.

Genk has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 27 goals from 17 games. Genk struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 29 goals conceded from these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 3 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Genk - Sporting Charleroi 4-2 was the output when these two teams formerly did battle, some time ago this season. Previous ten meetings between these sides: Sporting Charleroi won two, Genk were winners in seven and we saw one draw. seven games with more than 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

E. Onuachu

19 goals

T. Bongonda Mbul'Ofeko Batombo

12 goals

J. Ito

8 goals

Sporting Charleroi missing players

Genk missing players

Total First Half Second Half

Sporting Charleroi				Genk
Total	Home	vs mid	Statistics	Stat	vs top	Away	Total
36	18	5	Played	P	6	18	36
15	7	2	Won	W	1	6	17
9	5	1	Drew	D	0	3	6
12	6	2	Lost	L	5	9	13
56	25	6	Scored	S	5	28	71
50	19	5	Conceded	C	12	29	49
92%	83%	80%	Over 0.5	O 0.5	100%	100%	100%
81%	72%	60%	Over 1.5	O 1.5	67%	89%	89%
61%	44%	40%	Over 2.5	O 2.5	50%	56%	56%
39%	22%	20%	Over 3.5	O 3.5	33%	33%	39%
14%	11%	20%	Over 4.5	O 4.5	17%	17%	28%
39%	28%	0%	BTTS	BTTS	50%	61%	56%
36%	50%	60%	Clean Sheets	C S	17%	17%	28%
33%	39%	60%	Failed to Score	F T	33%	22%	17%

4.7	5.8	5.4	Corners for (avg)	C F	5.2	5.2	5.7
5.5	4.9	5	Corners against (avg)	C A	5	5.1	4.6
1.6	1.2	1.2	Yellow cards (avg)	Y C	2.3	1.7	1.5
1	0	0	Red cards	R C	2	4	4

13.5	14.1	12.2	Shots (avg)	S (	12.2	13.7	15.1
5	5.5	5	Shots on Target (avg)	S O	3.3	5.2	5.8
31%	25%	24%	Goal Efficiency	G E	25%	30%	34%

13.3	10.4	11.4	Shots against (avg)	S A	10.3	10.9	11.2
4.8	4.2	4.2	Shots on Target against (avg)	S O	5	4.1	4.1

Sporting Charleroi			First Half	Genk
Total	Home	vs mid	Statistics	Stat	vs top	Away	Total
36	18	5	Played	P	6	18	36
13	5	1	Won	W	0	4	15
12	8	2	Drew	D	2	6	9
11	5	2	Lost	L	4	8	12
29	11	4	Scored	S	2	11	29
22	7	2	Conceded	C	8	14	21
78%	61%	60%	Over 0.5	O 0.5	83%	83%	86%
42%	22%	20%	Over 1.5	O 1.5	50%	39%	36%
17%	11%	20%	Over 2.5	O 2.5	17%	11%	11%
6%	6%	20%	Over 3.5	O 3.5	17%	6%	6%
0%	0%	0%	Over 4.5	O 4.5	0%	0%	0%
14%	6%	0%	BTTS	BTTS	33%	22%	17%
56%	67%	60%	Clean Sheets	C S	17%	39%	53%
53%	67%	80%	Failed to Score	F T	67%	56%	44%

Sporting Charleroi			Second Half	Genk
Total	Home	vs mid	Statistics	Stat	vs top	Away	Total
36	18	5	Played	P	6	18	36
13	7	2	Won	W	1	7	18
9	5	1	Drew	D	4	5	9
14	6	2	Lost	L	1	6	9
27	14	2	Scored	S	3	17	42
28	12	3	Conceded	C	4	15	28
83%	72%	80%	Over 0.5	O 0.5	67%	89%	89%
42%	33%	20%	Over 1.5	O 1.5	50%	56%	56%
19%	22%	0%	Over 2.5	O 2.5	0%	17%	28%
3%	6%	0%	Over 3.5	O 3.5	0%	6%	14%
3%	6%	0%	Over 4.5	O 4.5	0%	6%	6%
19%	11%	0%	BTTS	BTTS	33%	33%	33%
44%	61%	60%	Clean Sheets	C S	50%	39%	47%
53%	56%	60%	Failed to Score	F T	50%	39%	31%

Key stats in Pro League this season:

Genk haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Sporting Charleroi have the most clean sheets (9) at home in Pro League
Sporting Charleroi have won significantly more corners at home than 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	Union Saint-Gilloise	34	24	5	5	78	27	17	10	3	4	32	14	17	14	2	1	46	13	51	77
2	Club Brugge	34	21	9	4	72	37	17	10	6	1	36	16	17	11	3	3	36	21	35	72
3	Anderlecht	34	18	10	6	72	36	17	10	5	2	41	19	17	8	5	4	31	17	36	64
4	Antwerp	34	19	6	9	55	38	17	9	4	4	30	19	17	10	2	5	25	19	17	63
5	Gent	34	18	8	8	56	30	17	11	3	3	37	16	17	7	5	5	19	14	26	62
6	Sporting Charleroi	34	15	9	10	55	46	17	7	5	5	24	16	17	8	4	5	31	30	9	54
7	Mechelen	34	15	7	12	57	61	17	10	4	3	36	24	17	5	3	9	21	37	-4	52
8	Genk	34	15	6	13	66	47	17	10	3	4	39	18	17	5	3	9	27	29	19	51
9	Sint-Truiden	34	15	6	13	42	40	17	7	3	7	26	23	17	8	3	6	16	17	2	51
10	Cercle Brugge	34	12	9	13	49	46	17	6	4	7	23	20	17	6	5	6	26	26	3	45
11	OH Leuven	34	10	11	13	47	58	17	7	4	6	25	25	17	3	7	7	22	33	-11	41
12	KV Oostende	34	10	7	17	34	61	17	5	3	9	19	37	17	5	4	8	15	24	-27	37
13	Kortrijk	34	9	10	15	43	48	17	5	4	8	23	24	17	4	6	7	20	24	-5	37
14	Standard Liege	34	9	9	16	32	51	17	3	5	9	15	26	17	6	4	7	17	25	-19	36
15	AS Eupen	34	8	8	18	37	61	17	4	4	9	18	29	17	4	4	9	19	32	-24	32
16	Zulte-Waregem	34	8	8	18	42	69	17	5	4	8	23	32	17	3	4	10	19	37	-27	32
17	RFC Seraing	34	8	4	22	30	68	17	5	3	9	16	30	17	3	1	13	14	38	-38	28
18	Beerschot-Wilrijk	34	4	4	26	33	76	17	4	1	12	16	33	17	0	3	14	17	43	-43	16

Table

		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	34	24	5	5	78	27	17	10	3	4	32	14	17	14	2	1	46	13	51	77
2	Club Brugge	34	21	9	4	72	37	17	10	6	1	36	16	17	11	3	3	36	21	35	72
3	Anderlecht	34	18	10	6	72	36	17	10	5	2	41	19	17	8	5	4	31	17	36	64
4	Antwerp	34	19	6	9	55	38	17	9	4	4	30	19	17	10	2	5	25	19	17	63
5	Gent	34	18	8	8	56	30	17	11	3	3	37	16	17	7	5	5	19	14	26	62
6	Sporting Charleroi	34	15	9	10	55	46	17	7	5	5	24	16	17	8	4	5	31	30	9	54
7	Mechelen	34	15	7	12	57	61	17	10	4	3	36	24	17	5	3	9	21	37	-4	52
8	Genk	34	15	6	13	66	47	17	10	3	4	39	18	17	5	3	9	27	29	19	51
9	Sint-Truiden	34	15	6	13	42	40	17	7	3	7	26	23	17	8	3	6	16	17	2	51
10	Cercle Brugge	34	12	9	13	49	46	17	6	4	7	23	20	17	6	5	6	26	26	3	45
11	OH Leuven	34	10	11	13	47	58	17	7	4	6	25	25	17	3	7	7	22	33	-11	41
12	KV Oostende	34	10	7	17	34	61	17	5	3	9	19	37	17	5	4	8	15	24	-27	37
13	Kortrijk	34	9	10	15	43	48	17	5	4	8	23	24	17	4	6	7	20	24	-5	37
14	Standard Liege	34	9	9	16	32	51	17	3	5	9	15	26	17	6	4	7	17	25	-19	36
15	AS Eupen	34	8	8	18	37	61	17	4	4	9	18	29	17	4	4	9	19	32	-24	32
16	Zulte-Waregem	34	8	8	18	42	69	17	5	4	8	23	32	17	3	4	10	19	37	-27	32
17	RFC Seraing	34	8	4	22	30	68	17	5	3	9	16	30	17	3	1	13	14	38	-38	28
18	Beerschot-Wilrijk	34	4	4	26	33	76	17	4	1	12	16	33	17	0	3	14	17	43	-43	16