Home advantage could prove decisive in Standard Liège - Beerschot-Wilrijk battle

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Wed 15.December
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Maurice Dufrasne (27670 seats)

Pro League: What this match might lack in glamour it should make up for in tempo and commitment. Get set for Standard Liège - Beerschot-Wilrijk!

Insights:
  • Standard Liège have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest scored goals (15) in Pro League

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Standard and Beerschot-Wilrijk.

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Standard Liège form and stats

Standard Liège's struggle is real here at Stade Maurice Dufrasne with only 9 points collected from 9 Pro League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-3-4.

Standard are returning here after visiting Antwerp in a Pro League game and winning with a 3-2 scoreline.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Sporting Charleroi (0-3).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Standard have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won seven times, drawn four and lost three.

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

Standard has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Standard Liège have conceded 15 from these games.

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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 0-3-6 (9 played). It's a growing despair in Beerschot-Wilrijk as they have recorded three consecutive losses.

The attacking players of Beerschot-Wilrijk have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 270 minutes.

Two away games in a row for Beerschot-Wilrijk, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus AS Eupen in the Pro League. Beerschot-Wilrijk keeper Vanhamel took pride in a magnificent day versus AS Eupen, but even with pulling off six saves the beating could not be helped. Mike Vanhamel was the team player of the game with the player rating of 7.8. The agile goalkeeper Vanhamel stopped the opponent with six saves.

Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Antwerp.

We have checked recent matches where Beerschot-Wilrijk have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 17 games were four victories, three draws and ten defeats.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting KV Oostende in just three days.

Beerschot-Wilrijk are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 9 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Beerschot-Wilrijk have conceded 21 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these sides meet this season, as the statistics show this recent game: Beerschot-Wilrijk - Standard Liège 0-1. Head-2-head stats last four meetings: four - zero - zero (Standard 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

Standard LiègeD. Drăguş
D. Drăguş
3 goals
Beerschot-WilrijkR. Holzhauser
R. Holzhauser
3 goals
Beerschot-WilrijkM. Noubissi
M. Noubissi
3 goals

Standard Liège missing players

Beerschot-Wilrijk missing players

Standard Liège Beerschot-Wilrijk
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 2 9 18
6 2 1 Won W 0 0 2
5 3 1 Drew D 1 3 3
7 4 0 Lost L 1 6 13
21 9 3 Scored S 1 10 15
31 15 2 Conceded C 2 21 32
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
72% 67% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 78% 61%
56% 44% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 56% 44%
39% 22% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 56% 28%
11% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 17%
61% 56% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 67% 33%
22% 22% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 17%
17% 22% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 56%
 
4.9 5.9 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 5 5.4
4.2 2.9 3 Corners against (avg) C A 8 6.7 6
3.3 2.8 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.8 2.4
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 3 5
 
11.3 13.8 16.5 Shots (avg) S ( 15.5 12.3 11.6
3.7 4.6 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.2 2.9
31% 22% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 34% 29%
 
11.7 10.1 9.5 Shots against (avg) S A 17 18.2 13.9
4.1 3.3 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 7.4 4.9
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 points (3) away in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest scored goals (15) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the most conceded goals in the first half (15) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have the the worst goal difference (-17) in Pro League
  • Beerschot-Wilrijk have yet to win a game away.
  • Standard Liège have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • 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 18 13 1 4 45 18 9 6 0 3 20 9 9 7 1 1 25 9 27 40
2 Club Brugge 18 10 6 2 35 23 9 5 4 0 20 10 9 5 2 2 15 13 12 36
3 Antwerp 18 10 3 5 32 21 9 5 2 2 17 10 9 5 1 3 15 11 11 33
4 Sporting Charleroi 18 9 5 4 32 22 9 4 2 3 13 9 9 5 3 1 19 13 10 32
5 Anderlecht 18 8 7 3 39 24 9 4 4 1 23 14 9 4 3 2 16 10 15 31
6 Gent 18 9 3 6 28 17 9 6 1 2 20 10 9 3 2 4 8 7 11 30
7 Mechelen 18 8 3 7 29 31 9 5 2 2 17 12 9 3 1 5 12 19 -2 27
8 AS Eupen 18 7 4 7 28 26 9 3 3 3 13 13 9 4 1 4 15 13 2 25
9 Kortrijk 18 6 7 5 22 22 9 4 3 2 12 10 9 2 4 3 10 12 0 25
10 Standard Liège 18 6 5 7 21 31 9 2 3 4 9 15 9 4 2 3 12 16 -10 23
11 Genk 18 6 4 8 31 30 8 3 2 3 15 12 10 3 2 5 16 18 1 22
12 Sint-Truiden 18 6 3 9 19 27 10 2 2 6 12 18 8 4 1 3 7 9 -8 21
13 KV Oostende 18 6 2 10 21 37 9 4 1 4 13 21 9 2 1 6 8 16 -16 20
14 OH Leuven 18 4 8 6 23 29 9 3 3 3 11 12 9 1 5 3 12 17 -6 20
15 RFC Seraing 18 6 1 11 23 36 9 4 1 4 13 14 9 2 0 7 10 22 -13 19
16 Cercle Brugge 18 5 4 9 22 25 9 1 2 6 8 14 9 4 2 3 14 11 -3 19
17 Zulte-Waregem 18 4 5 9 27 41 9 2 2 5 14 23 9 2 3 4 13 18 -14 17
18 Beerschot-Wilrijk 18 2 3 13 15 32 9 2 0 7 5 11 9 0 3 6 10 21 -17 9

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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.