Standard Liège welcomes OH Leuven as clear favourites: Big betting preview

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 06.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Maurice Dufrasne (27670 seats)

Standard Liège perform at a high level so far being 4th in the table. OH Leuven can look both up and down from their 9th position.

Insights:
  • Standard Liège has the most matches over the total-line (15) in Pro League
  • OH Leuven have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

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.

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Standard Liège form and stats

Standard Liège have played 12 Pro League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-5-2 (wins-draws-losses). Hopes of three in a row are alive for Standard after consecutive victories at their own ground.

Standard enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at RFC Seraing's place. The match ended 1-0. A Pro League defeat was the result before that one, 1-3 away at Club Brugge.

Standard Liège have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stade Maurice Dufrasne with 18 goals in 12 league matches. 14 goals have been conceded.

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OH Leuven form and stats

The visitors are W4-D4-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Pro League.

OH Leuven might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Cercle Brugge proved too strong as OH Leuven slumped to a 1-3 defeat in front of their own fans at King Power at Den Dreef Stadion. The game before that, in the Pro League, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Beerschot-Wilrijk.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Leuven when being an outsider away as they are today, we find three matches with the visitors losing two times, drawing zero and winning one game.

Leuven have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 24 goals from 12 away matches. Leuven have conceded 24 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result OH Leuven - Standard 1-0 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Standard seven wins, two draws and OH Leuven one victory. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

OH LeuvenT. Henry
T. Henry
16 goals
OH LeuvenK. Sowah
K. Sowah
7 goals
StandardM. Balikwisha
M. Balikwisha
6 goals

Standard Liège missing players

OH Leuven missing players

Standard Liège OH Leuven
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
25 12 3 Played P 4 12 25
10 5 1 Won W 0 4 10
8 5 2 Drew D 3 4 6
7 2 0 Lost L 1 4 9
36 18 5 Scored S 6 24 40
29 14 4 Conceded C 7 24 41
92% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
72% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 88%
60% 58% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 83% 72%
32% 42% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 75% 44%
4% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 33% 16%
60% 67% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 92% 76%
28% 25% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 8% 16%
20% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 8%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 2 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 1.8 1.6
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
8 8.4 8.7 Shots (avg) S ( 12 8.3 9.2
3.5 3.7 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.7 3.8
41% 41% 56% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 55% 42%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • All of OH Leuven's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • OH Leuven have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • OH Leuven have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • OH Leuven haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Standard Liège has the most matches over the total-line (15) 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 Club Brugge 25 18 3 4 53 18 13 9 1 3 24 11 12 9 2 1 29 7 35 57
2 Antwerp 25 13 4 8 41 34 13 7 3 3 22 17 12 6 1 5 19 17 7 43
3 Genk 25 12 7 6 49 33 12 7 4 1 28 14 13 5 3 5 21 19 16 43
4 Standard Liège 25 10 8 7 36 29 12 5 5 2 18 14 13 5 3 5 18 15 7 38
5 Anderlecht 25 9 11 5 34 26 13 7 6 0 18 6 12 2 5 5 16 20 8 38
6 Sporting Charleroi 25 11 4 10 38 34 11 5 2 4 12 8 14 6 2 6 26 26 4 37
7 Beerschot-Wilrijk 25 11 4 10 46 48 12 6 3 3 25 20 13 5 1 7 21 28 -2 37
8 KV Oostende 25 10 6 9 36 33 12 6 4 2 24 16 13 4 2 7 12 17 3 36
9 OH Leuven 25 10 6 9 40 41 13 6 2 5 16 17 12 4 4 4 24 24 -1 36
10 Zulte-Waregem 25 10 3 12 38 45 14 4 2 8 16 28 11 6 1 4 22 17 -7 33
11 Mechelen 25 9 6 10 38 42 14 4 3 7 22 25 11 5 3 3 16 17 -4 33
12 Gent 25 9 5 11 34 31 11 4 2 5 17 15 14 5 3 6 17 16 3 32
13 AS Eupen 25 7 10 8 30 40 13 4 4 5 18 22 12 3 6 3 12 18 -10 31
14 Sint-Truiden 25 8 6 11 33 37 13 5 3 5 17 14 12 3 3 6 16 23 -4 30
15 Kortrijk 25 8 6 11 29 37 14 5 2 7 21 27 11 3 4 4 8 10 -8 30
16 Royal Excel Mouscron 25 6 8 11 23 34 12 3 5 4 13 13 13 3 3 7 10 21 -11 26
17 Cercle Brugge 25 7 1 17 30 44 12 3 0 9 18 24 13 4 1 8 12 20 -14 22
18 Waasland-Beveren 25 5 6 14 32 54 11 2 1 8 13 27 14 3 5 6 19 27 -22 21

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.