📏 Form Guide

Beerschot

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Beerschot are hoping to win again following the 3-2 First Division A triumph over Cercle Brugge.

In that game, Beerschot managed 58% possession and 21 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. For Beerschot, the goals were scored by Ewan Henderson (53'), Loïc Mbe Soh (80') and Antoine Colassin (87'). Cercle Brugge had 11 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Kévin Denkey (36', 47') was the scorer for Cercle Brugge.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Beerschot have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Beerschot have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 9 goals on the way. We will have to see if that trend will be sustained here.

KV Mechelen

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against KV Kortrijk in First Division A action, KV Mechelen will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, KV Mechelen managed 68% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for KV Mechelen was Benito Raman (95'). On the other side, Kortrijk got 12 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Dion De Neve (24') and Nacho Ferri (47', 89') scored for KV Kortrijk.

Indicating their penchant for action-packed encounters, we’ve had goals 23 times in the last 6 games in which KV Mechelen have taken to the pitch, yielding an average of 3.83 goals per clash. Opposition teams have managed 9 of those goals.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 29/11/2020 tells us that Beerschot have won 1 of them & KV Mechelen 5, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.

An aggregate of 18 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from Beerschot and 12 being from Mechelen. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The previous league meeting featuring the two was First Division A match day 15 on 24/11/2024 which finished with the scoreline of KV Mechelen 3-0 Beerschot.

That day, KV Mechelen had 44% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 10 of them on target. Goals were scored by Ahmed Touba (41'), Benito Raman (71') and Patrick Pflücke (92').

For their opponents, Beerschot got 16 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

The referee was Lawrence Visser.

ℹ️ Team News: Beerschot

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just one fitness concern for the Beerschot gaffer Dirk Kuijt to be concerned about from of an almost fully healthy group of players. Ryan Sanusi (surgery) will miss out.

📰 Team News: KV Mechelen

KV Mechelen boss Besnik Hasi has to choose a team with limited availability. Jules Van Cleemput (Adductor injury), Zinho Vanheusden (Inguinal hernia), Mory Konaté (Knee injury), Bas Van den Eynden (Adductor tear) and Bill Antonio (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be playing here.

💡 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Beerschot could well find it tough to be putting a goal past this KV Mechelen team who we reckon should do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a good battle with a 0-1 advantage for KV Mechelen when the referee blows for full-time.

Looking forward to watching this one unfold.

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Peter Guest, 19:01 04/12/2024