Standard Liège vs Sint-Truiden match guide

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 25.September
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Maurice Dufrasne (27670 seats)

Pro League: The mid-table spots illustrates the road Standard Liège and Sint-Truiden have taken uptil now. Both squads are eager to play; let's bake this cake!

Insights:
  • Standard Liège have the most matches under the total-line (6) in Pro League
  • Sint-Truiden have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Pro League

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

Standard's stadium, Stade Maurice Dufrasne, has a grass surface. Sint-Truiden have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Sint-Truiden when playing on grass; 12 wins, 9 draws and 21 losses from 42 matches. They have scored 44 goals in these games and conceded 74.

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Standard Liège form and stats

Standard Liège have played 4 Pro League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 1-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).

The Standard crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Anderlecht here at Stade Maurice Dufrasne in a Pro League match. Nicolas Raskin (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.4/10. Raskin hit one key pass and had 30 successful passes (of 35 total).

A strong away win before that one, visiting RFC Seraing and winning 1-0.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Standard's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played one game, won zero matches, drawn one and lost zero.

The Standard fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 4 in 4 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Standard defense is not exactly impregnable. 7 goals conceded from 4 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Sint-Truiden form and stats

The visitors, who have the fewest conceded goals (2) away in Pro League, are W2-D1-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Pro League. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Sint-Truiden, as they have won on their previous two travels.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Pro League home defeat versus Genk with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Yuma Suzuki, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.61. Suzuki scored one goal.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Beerschot-Wilrijk with the score of 1-0.

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

The visitors have scored 3 goals from 4 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Sint-Truiden are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 2 away goals have been conceded so far.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Standard Liège one win, four draws and Sint-Truiden five victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Standard LiègeS. Amallah
S. Amallah
2 goals
Standard LiègeJ. De Mello
J. De Mello
2 goals
Standard LiègeK. Laifis
K. Laifis
1 goals

Standard Liège missing players

Sint-Truiden missing players

Standard Liège Sint-Truiden
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
8 4 2 Played P 0 4 8
4 1 1 Won W 0 2 3
1 1 0 Drew D 0 1 1
3 2 1 Lost L 0 1 4
8 4 3 Scored S 0 3 7
12 7 5 Conceded C 0 2 10
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 75% 88%
50% 50% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 25% 62%
38% 25% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 50%
25% 25% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 12%
12% 25% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
38% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 50%
38% 25% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 75% 38%
25% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 25%
 
5.1 7 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.8 4.5
3.6 2.8 2 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6.2 5.6
3.4 2.8 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.8 2.6
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.1 14.2 16 Shots (avg) S ( 0 8.8 10.6
3.4 5 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.5 3.8
30% 20% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 21% 23%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Sint-Truiden have the fewest conceded goals (2) away in Pro League
  • Sint-Truiden have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Pro League
  • Standard Liège have the most matches under the total-line (6) in Pro League
  • 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 Club Brugge 8 5 2 1 16 11 4 2 2 0 9 5 4 3 0 1 7 6 5 17
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 8 5 1 2 16 7 4 3 0 1 8 2 4 2 1 1 8 5 9 16
3 Genk 7 4 2 1 14 8 4 2 1 1 9 5 3 2 1 0 5 3 6 14
4 AS Eupen 8 4 2 2 15 10 4 1 1 2 4 5 4 3 1 0 11 5 5 14
5 Anderlecht 7 4 1 2 15 8 3 2 0 1 11 5 4 2 1 1 4 3 7 13
6 Sporting Charleroi 8 3 4 1 15 9 4 1 2 1 6 4 4 2 2 0 9 5 6 13
7 Kortrijk 8 4 1 3 10 8 4 2 1 1 6 4 4 2 0 2 4 4 2 13
8 Standard Liège 8 4 1 3 8 12 4 1 1 2 4 7 4 3 0 1 4 5 -4 13
9 KV Oostende 8 4 0 4 11 15 4 2 0 2 4 6 4 2 0 2 7 9 -4 12
10 Antwerp 7 3 2 2 13 10 3 1 1 1 4 4 4 2 1 1 9 6 3 11
11 Sint-Truiden 8 3 1 4 7 10 4 1 0 3 4 8 4 2 1 1 3 2 -3 10
12 Mechelen 8 3 1 4 13 18 4 3 0 1 9 6 4 0 1 3 4 12 -5 10
13 RFC Seraing 8 3 0 5 8 13 4 2 0 2 5 5 4 1 0 3 3 8 -5 9
14 Cercle Brugge 8 2 2 4 10 11 4 0 1 3 3 6 4 2 1 1 7 5 -1 8
15 Zulte-Waregem 8 2 2 4 12 16 4 0 1 3 5 12 4 2 1 1 7 4 -4 8
16 Gent 7 2 1 4 13 10 4 2 1 1 12 6 3 0 0 3 1 4 3 7
17 OH Leuven 8 1 4 3 8 16 4 1 2 1 5 7 4 0 2 2 3 9 -8 7
18 Beerschot-Wilrijk 8 0 1 7 7 19 4 0 0 4 0 6 4 0 1 3 7 13 -12 1

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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.