Sporting Charleroi host KV Oostende as clear favourites: Big football preview

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 06.August
Match begins: 16:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stade du Pays de Charleroi (15000 seats)

Sporting Charleroi will contest KV Oostende in this Pro League game. All you need to know about the match can be found right here!

Sporting Charleroi and KV Oostende should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Sporting Charleroi form and stats

The hosts won their first Pro League game here at Stade du Pays de Charleroi, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Sporting Charleroi last season were 7 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses from 17 games.

In their previous game, the manager Still led his Sporting Charleroi to a defeat away at Union Saint-Gilloise. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stade du Pays de Charleroi.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting AS Eupen in a game that was won 3-1.

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 Charleroi's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 6 games, won 4 matches, drawn 2 and lost 0.

At Stade du Pays de Charleroi, Sporting Charleroi has the goal stats of 3-1 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.

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KV Oostende form and stats

KV Oostende have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats in the Pro League were 5 victories, 4 draws and 8 defeats from 17 fixtures.

KV Oostende are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the match against Mechelen (placed 18th). KV Oostende goalie Hubert was high and low in the Mechelen game, contributing six saves towards the victory. Batzner, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.32. Batzner signed up for two assists, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Anderlecht wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Oostende when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 6 matches with the visitors losing 5 times, drawing 0 and winning 1 game.

It's early days yet, but KV Oostende has scored 0 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sporting Charleroi five wins, two draws and KV Oostende three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

KV OostendeD. Atanga
D. Atanga
2 goals
Sporting CharleroiL. Bessile
L. Bessile
1 goals
Sporting CharleroiA. Gholizadeh
A. Gholizadeh
1 goals

Sporting Charleroi missing players

KV Oostende missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Sporting Charleroi KV Oostende
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
2 1 0 Played P 0 1 2
1 1 0 Won W 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 1 1
3 3 0 Scored S 0 0 2
2 1 0 Conceded C 0 2 3
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
50% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
50% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 50%
50% 100% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 50%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
50% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 100% 50%
 
3 2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5 5.5
4.5 1 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 7 8
1.5 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 4 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
9 12 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 8 9
4.5 5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 1 4.5
33% 60% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 22%
 
12.5 8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 13 16
6.5 7 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 3 5.5
Sporting Charleroi Last season KV Oostende
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
40 20   Played P   17 34
17 8   Won W   5 10
10 6   Drew D   4 7
13 6   Lost L   8 17
65 30   Scored S   15 34
58 23   Conceded C   24 61
92% 85%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   94% 94%
82% 75%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   65% 74%
65% 50%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   35% 53%
42% 30%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   12% 29%
18% 15%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   12% 12%
45% 35%   BTTS BTTS   29% 44%
32% 45%   Clean Sheets C S   24% 21%
30% 35%   Failed to Score F T   53% 41%
 
4.7 5.7   Corners for (avg) C F   4.8 5.4
5.5 4.8   Corners against (avg) C A   6.1 5
1.6 1.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.7 2.4
1 0   Red cards R C   5 6
 
13.3 14.2   Shots (avg) S (   11.2 11.9
5 5.3   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.2 3.5
32% 28%   Goal Efficiency G E   27% 29%
 
13.7 10.6   Shots against (avg) S A   14.8 13
5.1 4.5   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5.3 4.8

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 OH Leuven 2 2 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 6
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 4
3 Antwerp 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 3
4 Zulte-Waregem 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
5 Club Brugge 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
6 Sporting Charleroi 2 1 0 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 3
7 Anderlecht 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 3
8 Westerlo 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 3
9 KV Oostende 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 -1 3
10 Cercle Brugge 2 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -1 3
11 Gent 2 0 2 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 2
12 Sint-Truiden 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2
13 Standard Liège 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
14 Genk 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
15 AS Eupen 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
16 Kortrijk 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
17 RFC Seraing 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
18 Mechelen 2 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 -3 0
Last season 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 Liège 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 OH Leuven 2 2 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 6
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 4
3 Antwerp 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 3
4 Zulte-Waregem 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
5 Club Brugge 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
6 Sporting Charleroi 2 1 0 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 3
7 Anderlecht 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 3
8 Westerlo 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 3
9 KV Oostende 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 -1 3
10 Cercle Brugge 2 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -1 3
11 Gent 2 0 2 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 2
12 Sint-Truiden 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2
13 Standard Liège 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
14 Genk 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
15 AS Eupen 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
16 Kortrijk 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
17 RFC Seraing 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
18 Mechelen 2 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 -3 0

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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.