Football match betting preview: Sporting Charleroi vs Sint-Truiden

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 26.February
Match begins: 18:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stade du Pays de Charleroi (15000 seats)

Sporting Charleroi and Sint-Truiden have both played out a "par" performance up to now, to use a golf phrase. The teams both occupy mid-table positions in the Pro League.

Insights:
  • Sint-Truiden have the fewest matches over the total-line (10) in Pro League

15 - 10 - 12 with 41-43. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Sint-Truiden when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Sint-Truiden play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.

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

Sporting Charleroi have played 12 Pro League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-1-6 (wins-draws-losses).

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Kouakou Herve Koffi not having conceded a league goal in 243 minutes.

Sporting Charleroi drew their last game, 0-0 away at KV Oostende (placed 17th). Sporting Charleroi's goalie Koffi played a big part in securing a draw after 90 minutes against KV Oostende with a stunning six saves. Koffi, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 8.64 out of 10 in that game. Koffi topped it up with a clean sheet.

Before that, Charleroi had a home game versus RFC Seraing which ended with a victory 3-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sporting Charleroi handle that role? We have found 7 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 0 wins, 5 draws and 2 defeats.

Sporting Charleroi are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 17 goals in 12 games. 17 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Sint-Truiden form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Pro League travels is 5 wins, 5 draws and 3 defeats.

The manager Hollerbach was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground Stayen. Sint-Truiden suffered a 0-1 loss to Westerlo (placed 7th). Midfielder Hashioka was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.33. Hashioka hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

A 1-3 defeat away at Anderlecht before that.

We have checked recent matches where Sint-Truiden have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 10 games were 4 victories, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

A tale of few goals? 8 of this club's last 10 league fixtures have had two goals or less.

Sint-Truiden have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 13 league away games 15 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, Sint-Truiden have seen the ball go into their own net 14 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The last head to head game ended Sint-Truiden - Sporting Charleroi 2-1, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Sporting Charleroi victories, two draws and four Sint-Truiden wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Sint-TruidenG. Bruno
G. Bruno
11 goals
Sint-TruidenD. Hayashi
D. Hayashi
7 goals
Sporting CharleroiD. Heymans
D. Heymans
5 goals

Sporting Charleroi missing players

Sint-Truiden missing players

Sporting Charleroi Sint-Truiden
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
26 13 3 Played P 3 13 26
9 5 1 Won W 1 5 9
6 2 0 Drew D 1 5 8
11 6 2 Lost L 1 3 9
33 17 4 Scored S 5 15 26
37 17 5 Conceded C 6 14 29
88% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 85% 88%
62% 62% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 77% 69%
62% 62% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 38% 38%
42% 38% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 15% 12%
15% 8% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 8% 4%
58% 54% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 46% 42%
27% 23% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 38% 31%
27% 31% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 31% 38%
 
4.5 4.4 4.3 Corners for (avg) C F 2.3 3.8 4
5 4.2 2.3 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 5 4.4
2 1.9 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2.2 1.7
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 6
 
10.9 11.4 9.7 Shots (avg) S ( 8 10.4 11.3
3.7 4.1 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.7 2.3 2.2
35% 35% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 50% 46%
 
11 9.1 8.7 Shots against (avg) S A 18.3 12 11.1
4.5 3.8 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.7 3.6 3.1
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Sint-Truiden have the fewest matches over the total-line (10) in Pro League
  • Sint-Truiden have the most matches under the total-line (16) 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 Genk 26 20 3 3 62 25 13 11 1 1 33 10 13 9 2 2 29 15 37 63
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 26 17 5 4 53 29 13 9 2 2 25 12 13 8 3 2 28 17 24 56
3 Antwerp 26 16 5 5 45 23 13 10 2 1 28 9 13 6 3 4 17 14 22 53
4 Club Brugge 26 11 10 5 45 32 13 6 6 1 27 15 13 5 4 4 18 17 13 43
5 Gent 26 12 6 8 46 30 13 7 3 3 22 13 13 5 3 5 24 17 16 42
6 Standard Liege 26 12 5 9 42 34 13 7 2 4 25 14 13 5 3 5 17 20 8 41
7 Westerlo 26 11 6 9 49 43 13 6 3 4 31 20 13 5 3 5 18 23 6 39
8 Cercle Brugge 26 9 9 8 35 35 13 5 6 2 22 15 13 4 3 6 13 20 0 36
9 Anderlecht 26 10 5 11 38 35 13 5 2 6 21 18 13 5 3 5 17 17 3 35
10 Sint-Truiden 26 9 8 9 26 29 13 4 3 6 11 15 13 5 5 3 15 14 -3 35
11 OH Leuven 26 8 8 10 38 38 12 4 4 4 17 16 14 4 4 6 21 22 0 32
12 Sporting Charleroi 25 9 5 11 33 37 12 5 1 6 17 17 13 4 4 5 16 20 -4 32
13 Mechelen 25 7 6 12 35 46 14 6 5 3 27 23 11 1 1 9 8 23 -11 27
14 Kortrijk 26 7 5 14 30 47 13 3 4 6 13 24 13 4 1 8 17 23 -17 26
15 AS Eupen 26 7 4 15 32 51 13 4 2 7 15 21 13 3 2 8 17 30 -19 25
16 Zulte-Waregem 26 5 7 14 32 54 13 3 3 7 20 32 13 2 4 7 12 22 -22 22
17 KV Oostende 26 5 5 16 26 54 13 4 1 8 13 24 13 1 4 8 13 30 -28 20
18 RFC Seraing 26 5 4 17 24 49 13 1 3 9 7 19 13 4 1 8 17 30 -25 19

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.