Match preview Pro League: Sporting Charleroi - Sint-Truiden at Stade du Pays de Charleroi

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 31.July
Match begins: 14:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stade du Pays de Charleroi (15000 seats)

With the nervous opening game out of the way it’s time for the second Pro League game of the season. Sporting Charleroi look forward to welcoming Sint-Truiden in front of their home support.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

This stadium uses grass, unlike Sint-Truiden's home stadium. The visitors last 42 games on grass have ended in 11 wins, 10 draws and 21 losses.

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Sporting Charleroi form and stats

Last season, Sporting Charleroi's league statistics were 11 wins, 9 draws and 14 losses, resulting in a 13th position in the Pro League. Over these 34 matches they scored 46 goals and conceded 49. Playing at home last season Sporting Charleroi managed 5-6-6 (win-draw-lost) with 18 goals and 16 conceded.

Sporting Charleroi enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at KV Oostende's place. The match ended 3-0 with Chris Bedia, Anass Zaroury and Joris Kayembe Ditu scoring. The attacker Anass Zaroury was "man of the match" for Charleroi with a rating of 8.1/10. Zaroury scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass, dribled passed the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 20 successful passes (of 24 total).

Ahead of that match, Sporting Charleroi lost 2-3 at home to AS Eupen.

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

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Sint-Truiden form and stats

Let's have a look at how Sint-Truiden performed last season in the Pro League: They landed a 15th position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 8 draws and 16 defeats. In total they scored 41 and conceded 52 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 5 and lost 8 with 21/32 goals scored/conceded.

Sint-Truiden had fun at their own home (Stade du Pays de Charleroi) last time out, beating Gent 2-1. Ilombe Mboyo and Christian Brüls scored. Jonathan Buatu-Mananga, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.64. Buatu-Mananga won 5 of 5 duels.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Anderlecht.

Sint-Truiden are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, two draws and six defeats. From a total of eleven matches.

Head 2 Head

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

Top Goalscorers

CharleroiJ. Kayembe Ditu
J. Kayembe Ditu
1 goals
Sporting CharleroiC. Bedia
C. Bedia
1 goals
Sporting CharleroiA. Zaroury
A. Zaroury
1 goals

Sporting Charleroi missing players

Sint-Truiden missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Sporting Charleroi Sint-Truiden
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 0 1
1 0 0 Won W 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
3 0 0 Scored S 0 0 2
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 1
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
2 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 1
9 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 8
1 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 5
6 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 2
50% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 100%
Sporting Charleroi Last season Sint-Truiden
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   17 34
11 5   Won W   4 10
9 6   Drew D   5 8
14 6   Lost L   8 16
46 18   Scored S   21 41
49 16   Conceded C   32 52
94% 88%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   88% 88%
79% 65%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   82% 79%
53% 29%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   53% 53%
29% 12%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   41% 26%
15% 6%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   18% 12%
62% 47%   BTTS BTTS   53% 53%
24% 35%   Clean Sheets C S   24% 26%
21% 29%   Failed to Score F T   35% 32%
 
5.2 6.1   Corners for (avg) C F   3.5 4.6
5 4.6   Corners against (avg) C A   4.6 4.7
1.9 1.9   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.2 2.1
3 1   Red cards R C   2 8
 
9.1 10.4   Shots (avg) S (   7.3 7.6
3.9 4.6   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.1 3.3
35% 23%   Goal Efficiency G E   40% 37%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Sporting Charleroi 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 3
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
3 Kortrijk 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
4 Mechelen 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Sint-Truiden 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
6 AS Eupen 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
7 Club Brugge 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
8 Genk 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
9 OH Leuven 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
10 Standard Liege 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
11 Zulte-Waregem 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
12 Beerschot-Wilrijk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Cercle Brugge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Antwerp 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
15 Gent 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
16 Anderlecht 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 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 KV Oostende 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -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 Club Brugge 34 24 4 6 73 26 17 12 1 4 34 15 17 12 3 2 39 11 47 76
2 Antwerp 34 18 6 10 57 48 17 9 4 4 30 25 17 9 2 6 27 23 9 60
3 Anderlecht 34 15 13 6 51 34 17 9 7 1 25 11 17 6 6 5 26 23 17 58
4 Genk 34 16 8 10 67 48 17 9 5 3 38 20 17 7 3 7 29 28 19 56
5 KV Oostende 34 15 8 11 49 41 17 9 5 3 33 21 17 6 3 8 16 20 8 53
6 Standard Liege 34 13 11 10 52 41 17 7 7 3 26 20 17 6 4 7 26 21 11 50
7 Gent 34 14 7 13 55 42 17 8 3 6 29 21 17 6 4 7 26 21 13 49
8 Mechelen 34 13 9 12 54 54 17 5 5 7 29 30 17 8 4 5 25 24 0 48
9 Beerschot-Wilrijk 34 14 5 15 58 64 17 7 4 6 32 29 17 7 1 9 26 35 -6 47
10 Zulte-Waregem 34 14 4 16 53 69 17 6 2 9 23 38 17 8 2 7 30 31 -16 46
11 OH Leuven 34 12 9 13 54 59 17 8 2 7 24 23 17 4 7 6 30 36 -5 45
12 AS Eupen 34 10 13 11 44 55 17 5 6 6 24 30 17 5 7 5 20 25 -11 43
13 Sporting Charleroi 34 11 9 14 46 49 17 5 6 6 18 16 17 6 3 8 28 33 -3 42
14 Kortrijk 34 11 6 17 44 57 17 5 2 10 24 35 17 6 4 7 20 22 -13 39
15 Sint-Truiden 34 10 8 16 41 52 17 6 3 8 20 20 17 4 5 8 21 32 -11 38
16 Cercle Brugge 34 11 3 20 40 51 17 6 1 10 25 26 17 5 2 10 15 25 -11 36
17 Waasland-Beveren 34 8 7 19 44 70 17 3 2 12 21 40 17 5 5 7 23 30 -26 31
18 Royal Excel Mouscron 34 7 10 17 32 54 17 4 5 8 17 22 17 3 5 9 15 32 -22 31

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 Sporting Charleroi 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 3
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
3 Kortrijk 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
4 Mechelen 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Sint-Truiden 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
6 AS Eupen 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
7 Club Brugge 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
8 Genk 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
9 OH Leuven 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
10 Standard Liege 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
11 Zulte-Waregem 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
12 Beerschot-Wilrijk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Cercle Brugge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Antwerp 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
15 Gent 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
16 Anderlecht 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 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 KV Oostende 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -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.