Standard Liège will plan to use their home advantage to get one over today’s adversaries. The hosting team are currently 6 points behind Sporting Charleroi.
- Standard Liège have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Sporting Charleroi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Standard have less rest than Sporting Charleroi in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Belgian Cup game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Beerschot-Wilrijk, was also a home game here at Stade Maurice Dufrasne. The away team is better rested.
Standard Liège form and stats
Standard Liège have collected 9 points from their Pro League home games so far after 2-3-3.
Standard Liège's previous game was a Belgian Cup match also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Beerschot-Wilrijk (after extra-time) (placed 18th). The home side are looking to build on that result.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Gent (1-3).This is expected to be a close game, with Standard Liège perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Standard as a small favourite), we find five games. Standard Liège has won zero of these, drawn two and lost three.
The Standard fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 9 in 8 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 12 goals have been conceded.
Sporting Charleroi form and stats
4-3-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sporting Charleroi in their Pro League matches away.
The manager E. Still was unhappy after their last game, a Pro League match played at their home ground Stade du Pays de Charleroi. Sporting Charleroi suffered a 1-3 loss to Anderlecht (placed 6th). Marco Ilaimaharitra got a match rating of 7.83 in that game, top player of the team. Ilaimaharitra scored one goal, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 49 successful passes (of 56 total).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Cercle Brugge at their stadium, the result 2-1.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Sporting Charleroi playing away and similar expectations, we found nine relevant matches. Results were three Charleroi wins, four draws and two defeats.
The Sporting Charleroi manager E. Still has got the team scoring on the road, with 16 away goals in 8 league matches. Charleroi struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 13 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Standard four wins, five draws and Sporting Charleroi one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), eight games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Nicholson 8 goals |  A. Gholizadeh 5 goals |  R. Morioka 4 goals |
Standard Liège missing players
Sporting Charleroi missing players
| Standard Liège | Sporting Charleroi | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 16 | 28 |
| 26 | 12 | 6 | Conceded | C | 4 | 13 | 22 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 69% | 62% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 50% | 38% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 88% | 62% |
| 38% | 25% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 62% | 44% |
| 6% | 12% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 12% | 12% |
| 62% | 62% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 56% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 12% | 25% |
| 12% | 12% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 12% | 25% |
| 4.9 | 6.1 | 7.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.2 | 5.6 |
| 4.4 | 3.1 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 7 | 6.2 |
| 3 | 2.2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4.5 | 2.2 | 1.6 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | 13.5 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 18.5 | 14.6 | 15.5 |
| 3.5 | 4.8 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 5 | 4.9 |
| 32% | 24% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 62% | 40% | 36% |
| 12 | 10.5 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 22 | 17.5 | 13.8 |
| 4.1 | 3.4 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8 | 5 | 5 |
- All of Sporting Charleroi's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Sporting Charleroi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sporting Charleroi have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Sporting Charleroi haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- 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 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 41 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 8 | 24 | 34 |
| 2 | Antwerp | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 29 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 30 |
| 3 | Club Brugge | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 29 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 30 |
| 4 | Mechelen | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 28 | 28 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 26 |
| 5 | Sporting Charleroi | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 28 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 26 |
| 6 | Anderlecht | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 31 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 25 |
| 7 | Gent | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 24 |
| 8 | AS Eupen | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 26 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 22 |
| 9 | Kortrijk | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 22 |
| 10 | Genk | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 30 | 28 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 2 | 21 |
| 11 | Sint-Truiden | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -6 | 21 |
| 12 | Standard Liège | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | -8 | 20 |
| 13 | OH Leuven | 16 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 15 | -4 | 20 |
| 14 | RFC Seraing | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 21 | 28 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 19 | -7 | 19 |
| 15 | KV Oostende | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 19 | 35 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -16 | 17 |
| 16 | Zulte-Waregem | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 25 | 35 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 12 | -10 | 17 |
| 17 | Cercle Brugge | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | -6 | 13 |
| 18 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 20 | -15 | 9 |