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Oud-Heverlee Leuven

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Oud-Heverlee Leuven enter this fixture coming off the back of a 1-1 First Division A drawn game against Union Saint-Gilloise.

In that game, Oud-Heverlee Leuven had 49% possession and 8 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. The scorer for Oud-Heverlee Leuven was Siebe Schrijvers (11' Own goal, 41'). Union Saint-Gilloise had 11 shots at goal with 4 on target.

Their latest results really do illustrate the point that not much more can be done by the Oud-Heverlee Leuven rearguard. Oud-Heverlee Leuven have been stingy, seeing the total number of goals that have flown into the back of their net over the course of their last 6 games standing at 4. Such a pattern won’t necessarily follow through into this match, of course.

Taking a look at their past results, Oud-Heverlee Leuven:

• have not lost a league tie with RSC Anderlecht in their previous 2 games.
• are winless against RSC Anderlecht in their previous 7 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 4 league games. Things will have to change soon.

RSC Anderlecht

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In their previous game, RSC Anderlecht drew 2-2 in the Europa League tie with Porto.

In that match, RSC Anderlecht had 52% possession and 9 shots at goal with 5 on target. For RSC Anderlecht, the goals were scored by Tristan Degreef (52') and Francis Amuzu (86'). On the other side, Porto had 12 shots at goal with 5 on target. Galeno (24') and Fábio Vieira (83') scored for Porto.

A succession of effective showings by the RSC Anderlecht defenders has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 1 from their last 6 outings in total. Over that same period of time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 20.

Ahead of this meeting, RSC Anderlecht are undefeated by Oud-Heverlee Leuven when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head clashes going back to 26/02/2022 shows that Oud-Heverlee Leuven have won 0 of these & RSC Anderlecht 2, with the tally of drawn results being 4.

A sum of 16 goals were scored between them in this period, with 5 of them for OHL and 11 coming from Paars-wit. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was First Division A match day 3 on 10/08/2024 when the final score was RSC Anderlecht 1-1 Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

On that occasion, RSC Anderlecht had 60% possession and 19 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player to score was Kasper Dolberg (36').

Oud-Heverlee Leuven had 10 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Mathieu Maertens (44') was the scorer.

The referee was Lawrence Visser.

📋 Team News: Oud-Heverlee Leuven

Mathieu Maertens (Partial muscle tear), Ewoud Pletinckx (Broken fibula) and Antef Tsoungui (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be available for Oud-Heverlee Leuven .

It looks as if OHL may well make use of the 4-2-3-1 system in the match and select Tobe Leysen, Manuel Osifo, Federico Ricca, Hasan Kurucay, Takahiro Akimoto, Konan N'Dri, Siebe Schrijvers, Thibault Vlietinck, Youssef Maziz, Stefan Mitrovic and C. Ikwuemesi.

📰 Team News: RSC Anderlecht

RSC Anderlecht manager David Hubert has not got a full squad to pick from. Majeed Ashimeru (Torn muscle bundle), Killian Sardella (Syndesmotic ligament tear), Jan Vertonghen (Achilles tendon problems), Thorgan Hazard (Cruciate ligament tear) and Ludwig Augustinsson (Bruised ribs) are those who can’t be considered.

We reckon that Paars-wit could decide to play in a 4-2-3-1 formation, giving starts to Colin Coosemans, Thomas Foket, Zanka, Jan-Carlo Simic, Moussa N'Diaye, Mats Rits, Theo Leoni, Anders Dreyer, Mario Stroeykens, Francis Amuzu and Kasper Dolberg.

✨ Prediction

Here, we’re thinking that Oud-Heverlee Leuven may well find it hard to get anything against this RSC Anderlecht team who we think might score at least once to put them ahead.

We’ve gone for a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 win for RSC Anderlecht at the end of the match.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 14:04 01/12/2024