Standard Liège favourites for feisty fight facing RFC Seraing

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 13.March
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Maurice Dufrasne (27670 seats)

Pro League: We're previewing an engaging and highly important scrap starring Standard Liège and RFC Seraing at Stade Maurice Dufrasne. This duo need points like a fish needs water!

Insights:
  • Standard Liège have the fewest scored goals (14) at home in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing have the fewest scored goals (26) in Pro League

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Standard Liège form and stats

With 3 Pro League wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats from their home games, Standard Liège, who have the fewest scored goals (14) at home in Pro League, are certainly not brimming with confidence. When Standard Liège hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Beerschot-Wilrijk, AS Eupen, Standard Liège, KV Oostende and Zulte-Waregem), they have won 3 of 4 matches!

Standard are confident in defense, having played 183 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

The Standard Liège manager Elsner and his gang return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Sporting Charleroi (placed 7th). Dussenne, defender, was given a rating of 7.41/10 in that game, top of the team. Dussenne won 7 of 13 duels.

Ahead of that match, Standard won a home game hosting Beerschot-Wilrijk (1-0).

Standard Liège aren't scoring a lot here at Stade Maurice Dufrasne in the league, with only 14 goals from 15 games. Standard Liège's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 22 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches. Standard has at home met teams with this table position (low), four times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 4 of 4 times.

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RFC Seraing form and stats

There's been little loot from RFC Seraing's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 15 away games in the Pro League. RFC Seraing only have 2 wins to counter their 13 defeats and 0 draws. With the RFC Seraing losing streak of five defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking.

Seraing have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 573 minutes ago. Maziz was the goal scorer.

RFC Seraing might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Club Brugge proved too strong as RFC Seraing slumped to a 0-5 defeat in front of their own fans at Stade du Pairay.

Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Zulte-Waregem's place.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Seraing as they have only managed to score 11 times from 15 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. RFC Seraing have conceded 36 goals in these games. When RFC Seraing is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Beerschot-Wilrijk, Seraing, AS Eupen, KV Oostende and Zulte-Waregem.

Head 2 Head

RFC Seraing - Standard Liège 0-1 was the scoreline in these squads' last h2h match, earlier this season. Head-to-head numbers (for the former two meetings): Standard Liège won two games, zero matches ended in a draw and RFC Seraing got zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / one The matches between these clubs have sometimes been from the last two encounters.

Top Goalscorers

RFC SeraingG. Mikautadze
G. Mikautadze
8 goals
RFC SeraingY. Maziz
Y. Maziz
7 goals
Standard LiègeD. Drăguş
D. Drăguş
6 goals

Standard Liège missing players

RFC Seraing missing players

Standard Liège RFC Seraing
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
30 15 4 Played P 3 15 30
8 3 3 Won W 1 2 7
9 5 0 Drew D 0 0 2
13 7 1 Lost L 2 13 21
30 14 3 Scored S 2 11 26
44 22 1 Conceded C 5 36 63
97% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
67% 60% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 93% 80%
43% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 67% 60%
27% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 37%
7% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 13% 20%
53% 53% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 40% 37%
23% 20% 75% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 13%
27% 27% 25% Failed to Score F T 67% 60% 57%
 
4.4 5.3 5.2 Corners for (avg) C F 5.3 4.5 4.8
4.6 3.7 3.8 Corners against (avg) C A 6.7 5.9 5.1
3.3 2.9 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.1 2
6 4 2 Red cards R C 0 2 4
 
12.2 13.9 15.5 Shots (avg) S ( 10.3 9.7 10.6
3.8 4.5 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 2.6 3.3
26% 21% 19% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 28% 26%
 
12.8 11.9 10.5 Shots against (avg) S A 15.7 14.7 13
4.3 4.3 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.3 5.9 5.5
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • RFC Seraing have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • RFC Seraing have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • RFC Seraing have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • RFC Seraing have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing have the fewest points from losing position (3) in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing have the fewest scored goals (11) away in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing have the fewest scored goals (26) in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing have the fewest scored goals in the second half (14) in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing have the most conceded goals (36) away in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing have the the worst goal difference (-25) away in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing have the the worst goal difference (-37) in Pro League
  • RFC Seraing haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • RFC Seraing is in the worst form (0-1-5)
  • Standard Liège have the fewest scored goals (14) 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 at home.

  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 30 21 4 5 65 24 15 9 2 4 26 13 15 12 2 1 39 11 41 67
2 Club Brugge 30 17 9 4 61 34 15 8 6 1 31 15 15 9 3 3 30 19 27 60
3 Antwerp 30 17 5 8 51 35 15 8 3 4 28 18 15 9 2 4 23 17 16 56
4 Anderlecht 30 15 10 5 63 32 15 8 5 2 35 18 15 7 5 3 28 14 31 55
5 Gent 30 15 7 8 46 28 15 9 3 3 31 16 15 6 4 5 15 12 18 52
6 Mechelen 29 14 5 10 51 49 15 9 3 3 31 20 14 5 2 7 20 29 2 47
7 Sporting Charleroi 30 13 8 9 45 40 15 5 5 5 16 16 15 8 3 4 29 24 5 47
8 Genk 30 13 6 11 58 43 15 9 3 3 34 17 15 4 3 8 24 26 15 45
9 Cercle Brugge 30 11 7 12 44 38 15 5 3 7 19 18 15 6 4 5 25 20 6 40
10 Sint-Truiden 30 11 6 13 33 38 15 5 3 7 20 21 15 6 3 6 13 17 -5 39
11 Kortrijk 30 9 10 11 39 39 15 5 4 6 21 20 15 4 6 5 18 19 0 37
12 OH Leuven 29 9 10 10 40 47 14 6 4 4 19 20 15 3 6 6 21 27 -7 37
13 Standard Liège 30 8 9 13 30 44 15 3 5 7 14 22 15 5 4 6 16 22 -14 33
14 KV Oostende 30 9 5 16 28 55 15 5 2 8 16 32 15 4 3 8 12 23 -27 32
15 AS Eupen 30 8 7 15 36 50 15 4 3 8 17 26 15 4 4 7 19 24 -14 31
16 Zulte-Waregem 30 7 8 15 39 63 15 4 4 7 20 30 15 3 4 8 19 33 -24 29
17 RFC Seraing 30 7 2 21 26 63 15 5 2 8 15 27 15 2 0 13 11 36 -37 23
18 Beerschot-Wilrijk 30 4 4 22 30 63 15 4 1 10 15 28 15 0 3 12 15 35 -33 16

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.