Standard Liège welcome Beerschot-Wilrijk as odds-on favourites: Read our betting preview

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Wed 02.March
Match begins: 17:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Maurice Dufrasne (27670 seats)

Standard Liège - Beerschot-Wilrijk: Pro League dungeon teams scrapping for points and greatness. Check out all the interesting statistics and information before the match!

Insights:
  • Standard Liège have the fewest points (11) at home in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Pro League

There have been limited time to rest for the hosts, as they had a Pro League fixture only three days back. This match was also played here at Stade Maurice Dufrasne. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Beerschot-Wilrijk have had more rest.

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Standard Liège form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Pro League this season. Standard Liège have only managed 2 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses from their games here at Stade Maurice Dufrasne. When Standard Liège hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like RFC Seraing, AS Eupen, Standard Liège, KV Oostende and Zulte-Waregem), they have won 2 of 3 matches! With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Standard Liège to get some points in this home game.

Standard Liège haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 305 minutes ago. Raskin scored that one.

The Standard Liège crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Gent here at Stade Maurice Dufrasne. The attacker Cafaro was named "man of the match" for Standard with a rating of 7.8/10. Cafaro hit three key passes and had 41 successful passes (of 51 total).

A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at KV Oostende.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Standard Liège as they are travelling to their away game against Sporting Charleroi in the Pro League. That match is four days after this one.

Standard have scored 13 league goals here from 14 matches, not a lot. Standard Liège have conceded 22 from these games. Standard has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 3 of 3 times.

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Beerschot-Wilrijk form and stats

Beerschot-Wilrijk have only collected 3 points from their away games in the Pro League, after 0-3-10 (13 played). The loyal fans travelling with their beloved Beerschot-Wilrijk have enjoyed the stadium food more than the matches as the visitors have gone 13 consecutive matches without winning on the road. The last time three points were secured away was the Gent game.

Beerschot-Wilrijk's previous game was their home loss versus Sporting Charleroi (2-3). Shankland, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.35. Shankland served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting Cercle Brugge's place.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Beerschot-Wilrijk manager Vanderidt as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Antwerp.

Beerschot-Wilrijk are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 14 away goals from 13 games (in the league). Beerschot-Wilrijk have conceded 32 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The most up to date archived result between these contenders is the Beerschot-Wilrijk - Standard Liège 0-1 played previously this season. Head-2-head stats last four meetings: four - zero - zero (Standard Liège wins - draws - Beerschot-Wilrijk wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

StandardD. Drăguş
D. Drăguş
5 goals
Beerschot-WilrijkJ. Dom
J. Dom
4 goals
Beerschot-WilrijkM. Noubissi
M. Noubissi
4 goals

Standard Liège missing players

Beerschot-Wilrijk missing players

Standard Liège Beerschot-Wilrijk
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
28 14 3 Played P 4 13 28
7 2 2 Won W 0 0 4
8 5 0 Drew D 0 3 4
13 7 1 Lost L 4 10 20
29 13 2 Scored S 2 14 29
44 22 1 Conceded C 8 32 60
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 96%
71% 64% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 85% 75%
46% 43% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 62% 57%
29% 21% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 54% 39%
7% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 38% 29%
57% 57% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 69% 46%
18% 14% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 8% 11%
25% 29% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 31% 46%
 
4.5 5.6 6.7 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 5.2 5.8
4.5 3.7 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5 6.8 5.9
3.4 2.9 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.2 2.7 2.2
5 3 1 Red cards R C 0 4 8
 
12.4 14.4 18 Shots (avg) S ( 15.2 11.5 12
3.9 4.6 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.8 4
26% 20% 15% Goal Efficiency G E 12% 29% 26%
 
13 11.9 10 Shots against (avg) S A 16.2 18.5 15.5
4.4 4.2 1.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7.5 7.5 5.9
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest points (3) away in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the most conceded goals in the first half (34) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have yet to win a game away.
  • Standard Liège have the fewest points (11) at home in Pro League
  • Standard Liège have the fewest scored goals (13) at home in Pro League
  • Standard Liège have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Standard Liège 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 Union Saint-Gilloise 29 20 4 5 62 22 15 9 2 4 26 13 14 11 2 1 36 9 40 64
2 Club Brugge 29 16 9 4 56 34 15 8 6 1 31 15 14 8 3 3 25 19 22 57
3 Antwerp 29 16 5 8 49 34 14 7 3 4 26 17 15 9 2 4 23 17 15 53
4 Anderlecht 29 14 10 5 60 32 14 7 5 2 32 18 15 7 5 3 28 14 28 52
5 Gent 29 14 7 8 44 27 14 8 3 3 29 15 15 6 4 5 15 12 17 49
6 Mechelen 28 14 4 10 50 48 15 9 3 3 31 20 13 5 1 7 19 28 2 46
7 Sporting Charleroi 29 13 7 9 45 40 14 5 4 5 16 16 15 8 3 4 29 24 5 46
8 Genk 29 13 5 11 56 41 15 9 3 3 34 17 14 4 2 8 22 24 15 44
9 Cercle Brugge 29 11 6 12 42 36 14 5 2 7 17 16 15 6 4 5 25 20 6 39
10 Sint-Truiden 29 11 5 13 32 37 14 5 2 7 19 20 15 6 3 6 13 17 -5 38
11 Kortrijk 29 9 10 10 37 36 14 5 4 5 19 17 15 4 6 5 18 19 1 37
12 OH Leuven 28 9 10 9 39 44 14 6 4 4 19 20 14 3 6 5 20 24 -5 37
13 KV Oostende 29 9 5 15 28 52 15 5 2 8 16 32 14 4 3 7 12 20 -24 32
14 Standard Liège 28 7 8 13 29 44 14 2 5 7 13 22 14 5 3 6 16 22 -15 29
15 Zulte-Waregem 29 7 8 14 38 61 15 4 4 7 20 30 14 3 4 7 18 31 -23 29
16 AS Eupen 29 7 7 15 33 49 14 3 3 8 14 25 15 4 4 7 19 24 -16 28
17 RFC Seraing 29 7 2 20 26 58 14 5 2 7 15 22 15 2 0 13 11 36 -32 23
18 Beerschot-Wilrijk 28 4 4 20 29 60 15 4 1 10 15 28 13 0 3 10 14 32 -31 16

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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.