Zulte-Waregem welcomes Waasland-Beveren as clear favourites: Big betting preview

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 22.August
Match begins: 14:15 (UTC)
Venue: Regenboogstadion (12500 seats)

The Pro League season is still fresh and sports bettors should be cautious. This meeting between Zulte-Waregem and Waasland-Beveren promises to be an interesting one.

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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Zulte-Waregem form and stats

The home fans saw their team lose the first Pro League game of the season here at Regenboogstadion. Last season these fans witnessed 7 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses from Zulte-Waregem's 14 home games.

Zulte-Waregem faced defeat in their previous match, away at Beerschot-Wilrijk (1-3). Before that game, the home loss against Genk with the scoreline 1-2.

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 Zulte-Waregem's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played four games, won two matches, drawn one and lost one.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Zulte-Waregem at home in the league. 1 on target and 2 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.

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Waasland-Beveren form and stats

A perfect away game record so far for the visitors in the Pro League, but they have only played once. Last season their away game stats were 2 wins, 3 draws and 10 defeats from 15 matches.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Pro League home defeat versus Standard Liège with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Before that one, a nice away victory 3-1 at Kortrijk.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Waasland-Beveren playing away, we found five games. Results were zero away wins, two draws and three home wins.

Waasland-Beveren have the goal stats of 3-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Zulte-Waregem victories, four draws and one Waasland-Beveren win. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Waasland-BeverenD. Heymans
D. Heymans
2 goals
Zulte-WaregemO. Deschacht
O. Deschacht
1 goals
Zulte-WaregemS. Berahino
S. Berahino
1 goals

Zulte-Waregem missing players

Waasland-Beveren missing players

Zulte-Waregem Waasland-Beveren
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
2 1 0 Played P 0 1 2
0 0 0 Won W 0 1 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 1 0 Lost L 0 0 1
2 1 0 Scored S 0 3 4
5 2 0 Conceded C 0 1 3
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 100%
50% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
100% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
6.5 9 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 1 2.5
6 8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4 6
2.5 3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 4 3.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
15 9 0 Total Shots T S 0 8 13
10 6 0 Shots on Target S O 0 6 9
20% 17% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 50% 44%
Zulte-Waregem Last season Waasland-Beveren
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
29 14   Played P   15 29
10 7   Won W   2 5
6 2   Drew D   3 5
13 5   Lost L   10 19
41 30   Scored S   9 21
49 17   Conceded C   30 60
97% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   93% 97%
93% 93%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   73% 79%
55% 64%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   40% 55%
38% 43%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   33% 38%
14% 21%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   20% 10%
38% 43%   BTTS BTTS   40% 48%
28% 36%   Clean Sheets C S   13% 10%
38% 21%   Failed to Score F T   53% 45%
 
4.5 5   Corners for (avg) C F   3.3 3.9
4.3 3.9   Corners against (avg) C A   7 5.8
1.8 1.4   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.3 2.1
4 0   Red cards R C   1 1
 
166 86   Total Shots T S   95 172
79 46   Shots on Target S O   30 70
52% 65%   Goal Efficiency G E   30% 30%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Beerschot-Wilrijk 2 2 0 0 5 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 6
2 Standard Liège 2 2 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 6
3 Sporting Charleroi 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 6
4 Anderlecht 2 1 1 0 5 3 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 4
5 Genk 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 4
6 Mechelen 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 4
7 Club Brugge 2 1 0 1 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 3 3
8 Waasland-Beveren 2 1 0 1 4 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 3
9 Cercle Brugge 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3
10 Kortrijk 2 1 0 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 -1 3
11 Sint-Truiden 2 1 0 1 3 4 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 -1 3
12 OH Leuven 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2
13 Antwerp 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 1
14 Royal Excel Mouscron 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 -1 1
15 AS Eupen 2 0 1 1 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 1 0 1 1 -4 1
16 Gent 2 0 0 2 2 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 -2 0
17 KV Oostende 2 0 0 2 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 -2 0
18 Zulte-Waregem 2 0 0 2 2 5 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 3 -3 0
Last season 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 29 21 7 1 58 14 15 12 3 0 33 5 14 9 4 1 25 9 44 70
2 Gent 29 16 7 6 59 34 15 11 3 1 38 14 14 5 4 5 21 20 25 55
3 Sporting Charleroi 29 15 9 5 49 23 14 10 2 2 26 9 15 5 7 3 23 14 26 54
4 Antwerp 29 15 8 6 49 32 14 10 4 0 28 12 15 5 4 6 21 20 17 53
5 Standard Liège 29 14 7 8 47 32 15 9 4 2 24 9 14 5 3 6 23 23 15 49
6 Mechelen 29 13 5 11 46 43 15 6 4 5 25 24 14 7 1 6 21 19 3 44
7 Genk 29 13 5 11 45 42 14 8 1 5 21 18 15 5 4 6 24 24 3 44
8 Anderlecht 29 11 10 8 45 29 15 7 5 3 29 12 14 4 5 5 16 17 16 43
9 Zulte-Waregem 29 10 6 13 41 49 14 7 2 5 30 17 15 3 4 8 11 32 -8 36
10 Royal Excel Mouscron 29 9 9 11 38 40 15 6 5 4 22 17 14 3 4 7 16 23 -2 36
11 Kortrijk 29 9 6 14 40 44 15 5 3 7 24 22 14 4 3 7 16 22 -4 33
12 Sint-Truiden 29 9 6 14 33 50 14 4 5 5 17 18 15 5 1 9 16 32 -17 33
13 AS Eupen 29 8 6 15 28 51 14 4 4 6 14 19 15 4 2 9 14 32 -23 30
14 Cercle Brugge 29 7 2 20 27 54 14 5 1 8 16 23 15 2 1 12 11 31 -27 23
15 KV Oostende 29 6 4 19 29 58 15 5 3 7 20 27 14 1 1 12 9 31 -29 22
16 Waasland-Beveren 29 5 5 19 21 60 14 3 2 9 12 30 15 2 3 10 9 30 -39 20

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.