Balanced ball game between Westerlo and Standard Liège expected

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 20.May
Match begins: 16:15 (UTC)
Venue: Het Kuipje (8182 seats)

Pro League: Two sides in reasonably good shape get together for this fixture. Standard Liège could have a tiny upper hand with their 6th place in the table?

Insights:
  • Westerlo have the most dropped points from leading position (24) 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!

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Westerlo form and stats

The Pro League results at home this season for Westerlo are 8-4-5 (wins-draws-losses).

Westerlo drew their last game, 2-2 away at Standard Liège. There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Standard Liège as den Keybus's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes. Defender Jordanov got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.84/10. Jordanov scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and won 5 of 12 duels.

Before that game, the home loss against Cercle Brugge with the scoreline 3-5.

This is expected to be a close game, with Westerlo perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Westerlo as a small favourite), we find 4 games. Westerlo has won 2 of these, drawn 0 and lost 2.

Goals decide football matches and Westerlo are scoring many of them at home; 40 on target from 17 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Westerlo defense is not exactly impregnable. 26 goals conceded from 17 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Standard Liège form and stats

6 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses. That’s the product of Standard Liège playing as the away team in the Pro League this season.

There were no winners in Standard's previous match, the home game that ended 2-2 vs Westerlo. Drawing 2-2 against Westerlo after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager Deila needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result. The draw against Westerlo came from a losing position. The Standard Liège manager Deila brought on Emond as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level. Ohio, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.44. Ohio served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

A 1-2 loss hosting Gent before that.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 10 similar matches played by Standard Liège in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Standard Liège, 2 draws and 6 defeats.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Standard have scored 24 goals in 17 league games away. As for defending, Standard Liège rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 28 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The squads have faced each other before in this season, with the final score Standard Liège - Westerlo 2-2 registered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Westerlo three wins, five draws and Standard Liège two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less. The matches between these clubs have had a tendency to be a bit rough, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten duels.

Top Goalscorers

WesterloN. Dorgeles
N. Dorgeles
11 goals
Standard LiègeP. Zinckernagel
P. Zinckernagel
10 goals
WesterloM. De Cuyper
M. De Cuyper
8 goals

Westerlo missing players

Standard Liège missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Westerlo Standard Liège
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
37 18 5 Played P 6 18 37
14 8 1 Won W 2 6 16
10 4 3 Drew D 3 5 9
13 6 1 Lost L 1 7 12
67 43 12 Scored S 8 24 61
63 31 11 Conceded C 7 28 49
95% 94% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 89% 95%
86% 89% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 78% 86%
57% 72% 80% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 54%
43% 61% 80% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 39% 41%
32% 50% 80% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 22% 16%
62% 67% 80% BTTS BTTS 67% 56% 51%
27% 28% 20% Clean Sheets C S 33% 28% 35%
16% 11% 20% Failed to Score F T 17% 28% 19%
 
4.8 5.2 5 Corners for (avg) C F 2.5 4.3 5.1
5.9 5.7 7 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 5.6 5.2
1.7 2.1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.7 2.4
2 0 0 Red cards R C 2 5 11
 
11.9 13.2 10.4 Shots (avg) S ( 9.2 10.8 11.8
4.2 5.2 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.3 4.1
44% 46% 57% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 40% 38%
 
14 12.8 16.6 Shots against (avg) S A 14.8 13.3 12.6
4.5 4.6 7.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.8 4.6 4.1
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Westerlo have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Westerlo have the fewest points from losing position (4) in Pro League
  • Westerlo have the most dropped points from leading position (24) 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 Genk 34 23 6 5 78 37 17 14 1 2 44 15 17 9 5 3 34 22 41 75
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 34 23 6 5 70 41 17 13 2 2 33 16 17 10 4 3 37 25 29 75
3 Antwerp 34 22 6 6 59 26 17 13 2 2 36 11 17 9 4 4 23 15 33 72
4 Club Brugge 34 16 11 7 61 36 17 10 6 1 40 15 17 6 5 6 21 21 25 59
5 Gent 34 16 8 10 64 38 17 9 4 4 28 16 17 7 4 6 36 22 26 56
6 Standard Liège 34 16 7 11 58 45 17 10 3 4 34 17 17 6 4 7 24 28 13 55
7 Westerlo 34 14 9 11 61 53 17 8 4 5 40 26 17 6 5 6 21 27 8 51
8 Cercle Brugge 34 13 11 10 50 46 17 8 7 2 31 18 17 5 4 8 19 28 4 50
9 OH Leuven 34 13 9 12 56 48 17 7 5 5 29 24 17 6 4 7 27 24 8 48
10 Sporting Charleroi 34 14 6 14 45 52 17 7 2 8 23 27 17 7 4 6 22 25 -7 48
11 Anderlecht 34 13 7 14 49 46 17 6 4 7 27 23 17 7 3 7 22 23 3 46
12 Sint-Truiden 34 11 9 14 37 40 17 6 4 7 20 19 17 5 5 7 17 21 -3 42
13 Mechelen 34 11 7 16 49 63 17 7 6 4 29 27 17 4 1 12 20 36 -14 40
14 Kortrijk 34 8 7 19 37 61 17 4 5 8 16 29 17 4 2 11 21 32 -24 31
15 AS Eupen 34 7 7 20 40 75 17 4 4 9 22 33 17 3 3 11 18 42 -35 28
16 Zulte-Waregem 34 6 9 19 50 78 17 3 4 10 27 46 17 3 5 9 23 32 -28 27
17 KV Oostende 34 7 6 21 37 76 17 5 1 11 18 33 17 2 5 10 19 43 -39 27
18 RFC Seraing 34 5 5 24 28 68 17 1 4 12 8 29 17 4 1 12 20 39 -40 20

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Genk 34 23 6 5 78 37 17 14 1 2 44 15 17 9 5 3 34 22 41 75
2 Union Saint-Gilloise 34 23 6 5 70 41 17 13 2 2 33 16 17 10 4 3 37 25 29 75
3 Antwerp 34 22 6 6 59 26 17 13 2 2 36 11 17 9 4 4 23 15 33 72
4 Club Brugge 34 16 11 7 61 36 17 10 6 1 40 15 17 6 5 6 21 21 25 59
5 Gent 34 16 8 10 64 38 17 9 4 4 28 16 17 7 4 6 36 22 26 56
6 Standard Liège 34 16 7 11 58 45 17 10 3 4 34 17 17 6 4 7 24 28 13 55
7 Westerlo 34 14 9 11 61 53 17 8 4 5 40 26 17 6 5 6 21 27 8 51
8 Cercle Brugge 34 13 11 10 50 46 17 8 7 2 31 18 17 5 4 8 19 28 4 50
9 OH Leuven 34 13 9 12 56 48 17 7 5 5 29 24 17 6 4 7 27 24 8 48
10 Sporting Charleroi 34 14 6 14 45 52 17 7 2 8 23 27 17 7 4 6 22 25 -7 48
11 Anderlecht 34 13 7 14 49 46 17 6 4 7 27 23 17 7 3 7 22 23 3 46
12 Sint-Truiden 34 11 9 14 37 40 17 6 4 7 20 19 17 5 5 7 17 21 -3 42
13 Mechelen 34 11 7 16 49 63 17 7 6 4 29 27 17 4 1 12 20 36 -14 40
14 Kortrijk 34 8 7 19 37 61 17 4 5 8 16 29 17 4 2 11 21 32 -24 31
15 AS Eupen 34 7 7 20 40 75 17 4 4 9 22 33 17 3 3 11 18 42 -35 28
16 Zulte-Waregem 34 6 9 19 50 78 17 3 4 10 27 46 17 3 5 9 23 32 -28 27
17 KV Oostende 34 7 6 21 37 76 17 5 1 11 18 33 17 2 5 10 19 43 -39 27
18 RFC Seraing 34 5 5 24 28 68 17 1 4 12 8 29 17 4 1 12 20 39 -40 20

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