Sporting Charleroi vs Sint-Truiden: Soccer betting preview

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Fri 05.March
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stade du Pays de Charleroi (15000 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Sporting Charleroi are in the 11th position while the guesting Sint-Truiden worry at 15th.

Insights:
  • Sint-Truiden have the fewest points from losing position (2) in Pro League

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.

This pitch has grass, which is not Sint-Truiden's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Sint-Truiden have performed like this: Played 41 matches resulting in 11 wins, 10 draws and 20 defeats with the goal stats 45-73 (scored/conceded).

Sint-Truiden are still fighting for top positions and their benefits.

L D L D W

Sporting Charleroi form and stats

When playing at home in the Pro League, Sporting Charleroi have managed 5 wins, 3 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 13 games.

The Charleroi crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Genk here at Stade du Pays de Charleroi in a Pro League match. A 1-1 draw away before that, with Waasland-Beveren the opponent.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Charleroi handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, two draws and two defeats.

The Charleroi fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 14 in 13 matches. Charleroi have only conceded 11 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

L D L L L

Sint-Truiden form and stats

Sint-Truiden have only collected 13 points from their away games in the Pro League, after 3-4-7 (14 played).

Y. Suzuki was the last player to score for the away team. Sint-Truiden haven't scored a league goal in the last 198 minutes.

Sint-Truiden might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. AS Eupen proved too strong as Sint-Truiden slumped to a 0-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Stayen. Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Antwerp.

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

Sint-Truiden have scored 17 goals on their travels this season, from 14 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Sint-Truiden have conceded 26 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Sint-Truiden - Charleroi 1-2 earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - one - three (Charleroi wins - draws - Sint-Truiden wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Sint-TruidenY. Suzuki
Y. Suzuki
14 goals
CharleroiM. Fall
M. Fall
8 goals
Sporting CharleroiA. Gholizadeh
A. Gholizadeh
7 goals

Sporting Charleroi missing players

Sint-Truiden missing players

Sporting Charleroi Sint-Truiden
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
28 13 3 Played P 5 14 29
11 5 1 Won W 1 3 8
6 3 1 Drew D 2 4 7
11 5 1 Lost L 2 7 14
41 14 3 Scored S 8 17 35
38 11 2 Conceded C 12 26 44
96% 92% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 90%
79% 62% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 83%
54% 31% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 50% 52%
29% 8% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 36% 24%
14% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 14% 10%
61% 38% 0% BTTS BTTS 80% 57% 55%
25% 38% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 21% 28%
18% 31% 67% Failed to Score F T 20% 29% 28%
 
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 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.6 2.4 2.2
3 1 1 Red cards R C 1 2 8
 
8.4 9.5 8 Shots (avg) S ( 5.4 6.8 7.5
3.8 4.6 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.4 2.6 3.2
39% 23% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 46% 37%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Sint-Truiden have the fewest points from losing position (2) in Pro League

  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 27 20 3 4 58 18 14 10 1 3 27 11 13 10 2 1 31 7 40 63
2 Antwerp 28 14 6 8 44 36 14 7 4 3 22 17 14 7 2 5 22 19 8 48
3 Genk 29 13 7 9 54 41 14 7 4 3 30 18 15 6 3 6 24 23 13 46
4 KV Oostende 29 13 7 9 45 36 15 9 4 2 32 18 14 4 3 7 13 18 9 46
5 Anderlecht 29 11 12 6 39 30 14 7 6 1 18 8 15 4 6 5 21 22 9 45
6 Zulte-Waregem 29 13 4 12 46 50 15 5 2 8 19 30 14 8 2 4 27 20 -4 43
7 Beerschot-Wilrijk 29 12 5 12 52 55 15 6 4 5 29 26 14 6 1 7 23 29 -3 41
8 OH Leuven 28 11 7 10 44 46 14 7 2 5 19 18 14 4 5 5 25 28 -2 40
9 Mechelen 29 11 7 11 42 46 15 4 4 7 23 26 14 7 3 4 19 20 -4 40
10 Standard Liege 29 10 10 9 41 37 15 5 7 3 21 19 14 5 3 6 20 18 4 40
11 Sporting Charleroi 28 11 6 11 41 38 13 5 3 5 14 11 15 6 3 6 27 27 3 39
12 Gent 28 10 7 11 41 34 13 5 3 5 23 17 15 5 4 6 18 17 7 37
13 Kortrijk 29 10 6 13 36 42 15 5 2 8 22 29 14 5 4 5 14 13 -6 36
14 AS Eupen 29 8 12 9 35 44 14 4 5 5 19 23 15 4 7 4 16 21 -9 36
15 Sint-Truiden 29 8 7 14 35 44 15 5 3 7 18 18 14 3 4 7 17 26 -9 31
16 Cercle Brugge 29 9 2 18 34 46 15 4 1 10 20 25 14 5 1 8 14 21 -12 29
17 Royal Excel Mouscron 29 6 9 14 26 45 14 3 5 6 14 18 15 3 4 8 12 27 -19 27
18 Waasland-Beveren 29 6 7 16 34 59 14 3 2 9 15 30 15 3 5 7 19 29 -25 25

Read more about Pro League

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.