Sporting Charleroi supporters put their faith in manager Still to deliver victory against Kortrijk

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Tue 18.October
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stade du Pays de Charleroi (15000 seats)

This is Pro League and Sporting Charleroi - Kortrijk. In this pre-match guide you'll find stats, previous results, numbercrunching, tendencies and stories!

Insights:
  • Sporting Charleroi have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Kortrijk have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Sporting Charleroi and Kortrijk.

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Sporting Charleroi form and stats

With 2 Pro League wins, 0 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Sporting Charleroi are certainly not brimming with confidence. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Charleroi, their manager Still and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.

In their previous game, the manager Still led his Sporting Charleroi to a defeat away at Sint-Truiden. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stade du Pays de Charleroi. Andreou was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.33 out of 10. The defender Andreou won 4 of 5 duels.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Standard Liege (0-1).

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 Sporting Charleroi's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 7 games, won 4 matches, drawn 2 and lost 1.

There will be little rest for Charleroi after this match as they are travelling to Cercle Brugge for a Pro League game in only three days.

A decent goal production from Sporting Charleroi in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 6 league matches.

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Kortrijk form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Kortrijk so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 2-0-4 (win-draw-lose). The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Kortrijk have lost on their last two travels.

Kortrijk failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Zulte-Waregem (placed 18th) that ended with defeat 1-3. Watanabe was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.83. The defender Watanabe won 9 of 13 duels.

A 1-2 defeat away at Genk before that.

Goals galore? This club have played 5 consecutive league games all with three or more goals (over 2.5 goals).

After this away game Kortrijk return home for a Pro League game against Westerlo. That game is only four sleeps after this.

As for defending, Kortrijk rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 10 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Sporting Charleroi have managed a streak of 7 consecutive games without defeat (3-4-0) when facing Kortrijk.

Top Goalscorers

KortrijkF. Selemani
F. Selemani
4 goals
Sporting CharleroiR. Morioka
R. Morioka
3 goals
Sporting CharleroiD. Heymans
D. Heymans
2 goals

Sporting Charleroi missing players

Kortrijk missing players

Sporting Charleroi Kortrijk
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
12 6 2 Played P 1 6 12
5 2 1 Won W 0 2 3
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
7 4 1 Lost L 1 4 8
17 9 4 Scored S 1 6 10
19 12 4 Conceded C 4 10 21
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
67% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 67%
67% 83% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 58%
50% 67% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 17% 25%
17% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 17% 17%
67% 83% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 58%
17% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 25%
17% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 25%
 
3.8 3.5 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 7 3.5 4
4.1 2.7 3 Corners against (avg) C A 9 8.3 7
1.8 1.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 2.6
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
11.1 13 14 Shots (avg) S ( 7 8.3 9.8
4.2 4.5 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 2 2.8
33% 33% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 50% 30%
 
10.3 8.2 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 11 21.3 18.8
4.3 4.3 6.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.8 4.8
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Kortrijk have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Kortrijk have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Kortrijk have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Kortrijk have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Kortrijk haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Sporting Charleroi have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Sporting Charleroi have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sporting Charleroi 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 Genk 12 10 1 1 27 11 6 5 1 0 12 5 6 5 0 1 15 6 16 31
2 Antwerp 11 10 0 1 24 8 6 6 0 0 16 5 5 4 0 1 8 3 16 30
3 Club Brugge 11 7 1 3 22 12 6 4 1 1 13 6 5 3 0 2 9 6 10 22
4 Union Saint-Gilloise 11 7 1 3 19 15 5 4 0 1 8 5 6 3 1 2 11 10 4 22
5 OH Leuven 12 6 2 4 21 19 6 3 0 3 7 10 6 3 2 1 14 9 2 20
6 Westerlo 12 6 1 5 22 20 6 4 1 1 12 6 6 2 0 4 10 14 2 19
7 Standard Liege 11 6 1 4 16 15 6 3 1 2 9 7 5 3 0 2 7 8 1 19
8 Gent 11 5 2 4 20 14 5 2 1 2 9 8 6 3 1 2 11 6 6 17
9 Anderlecht 11 5 1 5 19 12 6 3 1 2 11 6 5 2 0 3 8 6 7 16
10 Sint-Truiden 12 4 4 4 12 12 6 2 1 3 7 9 6 2 3 1 5 3 0 16
11 Sporting Charleroi 12 5 0 7 17 19 6 2 0 4 9 12 6 3 0 3 8 7 -2 15
12 Cercle Brugge 12 3 3 6 15 21 6 2 3 1 9 6 6 1 0 5 6 15 -6 12
13 Mechelen 11 3 2 6 17 21 6 2 1 3 11 12 5 1 1 3 6 9 -4 11
14 KV Oostende 11 3 2 6 12 16 5 2 0 3 5 7 6 1 2 3 7 9 -4 11
15 RFC Seraing 12 3 2 7 13 21 5 0 1 4 1 9 7 3 1 3 12 12 -8 11
16 Kortrijk 12 3 1 8 10 21 6 1 1 4 4 11 6 2 0 4 6 10 -11 10
17 AS Eupen 12 3 0 9 10 25 6 1 0 5 4 12 6 2 0 4 6 13 -15 9
18 Zulte-Waregem 12 2 2 8 12 26 6 1 0 5 7 18 6 1 2 3 5 8 -14 8

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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.