📊 Form Guide

Charleroi

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Charleroi head into this game after a 2-2 First Division A - Play-Offs drawn match against KVC Westerlo.

For Charleroi, goals were scored by Nikola Štulić (20') and Žan Rogelj (90'). Matija Frigan (7') and Griffin Yow (94') scored for KVC Westerlo.

Over their preceding 6 fixtures, Rik De Mil's Charleroi have scored a total of 6 times, with that being an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.

KV Mechelen

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In their last fixture, KV Mechelen drew 1-1 in the First Division A - Play-Offs tie with Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

In that game, KV Mechelen had 57% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The only player to score for KV Mechelen was Lion Lauberbach (17'). On the other side, Oud-Heverlee Leuven had 9 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. Siebe Schrijvers (20') was the scorer for Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

The stats tell the story, and KV Mechelen have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 7 goals in all. In defence, KV Mechelen have clearly had some problems. It will be interesting to see whether or not that trend will be continued on here.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 12/11/2022 shows us that Charleroi have won 1 of these and KV Mechelen 4, with the number of drawn results being 1.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 22 overall which averages out at 3.67 goals per meeting.

The last league fixture featuring these clubs was First Division A match day 29 on 08/03/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Charleroi 0-1 KV Mechelen.

In that game, Charleroi had 67% possession and 12 shots at goal with 2 on target.

KV Mechelen got 11 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Benito Raman (1') was the scorer.

The referee was Lawrence Visser.

📰 Team News: Charleroi

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Charleroi boss Rik De Mil to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed set of players. Aiham Ousou (Adductor injury) is out of contention.

We are thinking that Les Zèbres could employ a 4-2-3-1 formation for this game featuring Martin Delavallee, Jeremy Petris, Stelios Andreou, Massamba Sow, Mardochee Nzita, Yacine Titraoui, Adem Zorgane, Antoine Bernier, Daan Heymans, Parfait Guiagon and Nikola Stulic.

📋 Team News: KV Mechelen

KV Mechelen manager Frédéric Vanderbiest has to choose a team with limited availability. Julien Ngoy (unknown injury), Ahmed Touba (Hamstring muscle injury), Daam Foulon (minor knock) and Zinho Vanheusden (Inguinal hernia) miss out here.

We believe KV Mechelen could decide to make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup, giving starts to Ortwin de Wolf, Rafik Belghali, Stephen Welsh, Toon Raemaekers, Jose Marsa, Fredrik Hammar, Kerim Mrabti, Patrick Pflucke, Rob Schoofs, Lion Lauberbach and Benito Raman.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that KV Mechelen will need to apply a lot of pressure to score goals against this Charleroi lineup who we reckon will get the vital goal that wins it.

We’re therefore seeing a narrow 1-0 winning score for Charleroi at full-time.

There should be little in it.

Peter Guest, 16:00 19/04/2025