The league table in Pro League tells a story about these teams so far, with Standard Liège leading Cercle Brugge by 25 points. Match preview to follow:
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Standard Liège form and stats
Standard Liège have performed here at Stade Maurice Dufrasne this season with 7 wins from 9 Pro League matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 1 game and lost 1.
Standard Liège's previous game was a Pro League match also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Cercle Brugge (placed 16th). The home side are looking to build on that result. Before that, Standard Liège played out a Europa League draw 1-1 when visiting Vitoria Guimaraes.
Standard Liège are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found five matches and the win/draw/lost stats: W5-D0-L0.
Goals decide football matches and Standard Liège are scoring many of them at home; 20 on target from 9 league matches. From these home matches, Standard Liège have conceded only 6 goals.
Cercle Brugge form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Cercle Brugge, who have the most conceded goals (39) in Pro League, so far with only 1 point returning home. The records show 0-1-8 (win-draw-lose).
Two away games in a row for Cercle Brugge, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Standard Liège in the Pro League. Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Waasland-Beveren.
You'll want to know how Cercle Brugge managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found five similar matches resulting in 0 away wins, 0 draws and 5 home wins.
The visitors have scored 8 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Cercle Brugge concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Standard Liège - Cercle Brugge 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Standard Liège 8 wins, 1 draw and Cercle Brugge 1 victory. As for goals, 4 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 6 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Emond 6 goals |  S. Amallah 5 goals |  M. Lestienne 5 goals |
Standard Liège missing players
Cercle Brugge missing players
| Standard Liège | Cercle Brugge | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 17 |
| 10 | 7 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 8 | 13 |
| 33 | 20 | 7 | Scored | S | 3 | 8 | 15 |
| 17 | 6 | 1 | Conceded | C | 6 | 24 | 39 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 88% | 89% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 88% |
| 65% | 67% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 78% | 71% |
| 29% | 22% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 56% | 41% |
| 12% | 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 22% | 12% |
| 65% | 56% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 78% | 65% |
| 29% | 44% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 22% | 29% |
| 5.5 | 6.1 | 8 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 2 | 3.7 | 4.1 |
| 3 | 3 | 2.3 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 5.1 | 5.2 |
| 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.9 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 144 | 59 | 34 | Total Shots | T S | 17 | 49 | 95 |
| 60 | 21 | 15 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 22 | 42 |
| 55% | 95% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 36% | 36% |
- Cercle Brugge has the fewest points (1) away
- Cercle Brugge has the most conceded goals (24) away
- Cercle Brugge has the most conceded goals (39)
- Cercle Brugge has the most conceded goals in the first half (18)
- Cercle Brugge has the most dropped points from leading position (14)
- Cercle Brugge has the the worst goal difference (-16) away
- Cercle Brugge has the the worst goal difference (-24)
- Cercle Brugge have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Cercle Brugge have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Cercle Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Cercle Brugge have yet to win a game away.
- Cercle Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Standard Liège has the most scored goals in the second half (21)
- Standard Liège have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Standard Liège have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Standard Liège have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Standard Liège have scored more than double the goals of Cercle Brugge.
- Standard Liège have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- 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 | Club Brugge | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 36 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 30 | 39 |
| 2 | Standard Liège | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 33 |
| 3 | Sporting Charleroi | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 31 |
| 4 | Antwerp | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 33 | 24 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 31 |
| 5 | Gent | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 33 | 20 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 29 |
| 6 | Zulte-Waregem | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 28 |
| 7 | Mechelen | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 27 |
| 8 | Royal Excel Mouscron | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 23 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 22 |
| 9 | Genk | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 11 | -1 | 21 |
| 10 | Sint-Truiden | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 20 | -10 | 21 |
| 11 | Anderlecht | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 21 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 21 |
| 12 | AS Eupen | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 17 | -15 | 16 |
| 13 | Kortrijk | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 28 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 15 | -5 | 15 |
| 14 | KV Oostende | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 20 | 33 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 16 | -13 | 15 |
| 15 | Waasland-Beveren | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 33 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | -19 | 11 |
| 16 | Cercle Brugge | 17 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 39 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 24 | -24 | 8 |