The visiting Standard Liège side should be favourites in this visit to Waasland-Beveren, as the away team holds a 24 point advantage from their 19 league games this season.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Belgian Cup game only three days ago.
Waasland-Beveren form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Pro League this season. Waasland-Beveren, who have the most conceded goals (23) at home in Pro League, have only managed 1 win, 2 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Freethielstadion. Waasland-Beveren has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager A. Mercier and the players.
Waasland-Beveren lost their last game at Genk (placed 7th) after a 1-4 scoreline. Preceding that match was a defeat to Antwerp (0-4).
Waasland-Beveren have scored 8 league goals here from 9 matches, not a lot. As for conceded goals, Waasland-Beveren's unpleasant statistic is 23 goals surrendered.
Standard Liège form and stats
3-3-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Standard Liège in their Pro League matches away.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Belgian Cup home defeat versus Antwerp with 1-3 on the scoreboard. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Anderlecht in the Pro League.
Standard Liège has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 15 goals from 9 games. As opposed to that, Standard Liège have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Waasland-Beveren and Standard Liège have met before this season: Standard Liège - Waasland-Beveren 2-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 2 Waasland-Beveren victories, 1 draw and 7 Standard Liège wins. 5 of these games ended with three goals or more, 5 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Emond 7 goals |  S. Amallah 6 goals |  M. Lestienne 6 goals |
Waasland-Beveren missing players
Standard Liège missing players
| Waasland-Beveren | Standard Liège | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 9 | 19 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 12 | 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 15 | 8 | 1 | Scored | S | 9 | 15 | 36 |
| 41 | 23 | 11 | Conceded | C | 4 | 13 | 20 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 89% |
| 53% | 78% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 67% | 63% |
| 47% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 44% | 32% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 11% | 11% |
| 58% | 67% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 78% | 68% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 11% | 26% |
| 42% | 33% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 11% | 5% |
| 4.4 | 5.1 | 4.7 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 5.8 | 4.9 | 5.7 |
| 5.3 | 4.3 | 6.7 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 2 | 3.4 | 3.2 |
| 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.7 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 109 | 49 | 11 | Total Shots | T S | 42 | 85 | 144 |
| 50 | 24 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 24 | 39 | 60 |
| 30% | 33% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 38% | 60% |
- All of Waasland-Beveren's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Standard Liège have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Standard Liège have scored more than double the goals of Waasland-Beveren.
- Standard Liège haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Waasland-Beveren has the fewest points (5) at home
- Waasland-Beveren has the most conceded goals (23) at home
- Waasland-Beveren has the the worst goal difference (-15) at home
- Waasland-Beveren have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Waasland-Beveren have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Waasland-Beveren have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Waasland-Beveren 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 | Club Brugge | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 41 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 34 | 45 |
| 2 | Antwerp | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 38 | 24 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 37 |
| 3 | Gent | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 38 | 22 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 35 |
| 4 | Standard Liège | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 35 |
| 5 | Sporting Charleroi | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 29 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 13 | 35 |
| 6 | Zulte-Waregem | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 31 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 31 |
| 7 | Genk | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 30 | 27 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 3 | 28 |
| 8 | Mechelen | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 28 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 13 | -2 | 28 |
| 9 | Royal Excel Mouscron | 19 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 27 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 2 | 26 |
| 10 | Anderlecht | 19 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 23 |
| 11 | Sint-Truiden | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 21 | 36 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 25 | -15 | 22 |
| 12 | AS Eupen | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 18 | -15 | 19 |
| 13 | KV Oostende | 19 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 22 | 35 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 17 | -13 | 18 |
| 14 | Kortrijk | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 25 | 33 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 16 | -8 | 16 |
| 15 | Waasland-Beveren | 19 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 41 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 18 | -26 | 11 |
| 16 | Cercle Brugge | 19 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 16 | 44 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 27 | -28 | 8 |