📏 Form Guide

Standard Liège

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Standard Liège will play in this game after a 1-1 First Division A - Play-Offs stalemate against Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

In that game, Standard Liège had 45% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 1 on target. The scorer for Standard Liège was Andréas Hountondji (81'). For their opponents, Oud-Heverlee Leuven had 14 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Siebe Schrijvers (38') was the scorer for Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

It has been seldom in recent times where Standard Liège have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Standard Liège have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 7 goals during that time. Previous results aside, it remains to be seen whether that trend shall persist in this game.

Charleroi

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Charleroi will go into this meeting following on from a 4-1 First Division A - Play-Offs win versus Dender in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Charleroi had 54% possession and 24 shots on goal with 7 on target. For Charleroi, the scorers were Antoine Bernier (17'), Daan Heymans (63'), Žan Rogelj (87') and Nikola Štulić (90'). On the other side, Dender had 8 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Roman Květ (69') was the scorer for Dender.

Rik De Mil's Charleroi have converted a total of 11 times in the course of their previous six matches. The aggregate of goals that they have conceded during that period equals 5.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 14/04/2023 shows us that Standard Liège have won 2 of these and Charleroi 1, with the number of drawn matches being 3.

An aggregate of 12 goals were produced between them in this period, with 7 for Les Rouches and 5 for Les Zèbres. That is an average goals per game value of 2.

The previous league contest featuring these sides was First Division A - Play-Offs match day 2 on 06/04/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Charleroi 1-0 Standard Liège.

On that day, Charleroi had 55% possession and 12 shots at goal with 3 on target. The scorer was Antoine Bernier (44').

Standard Liège got 8 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Nathan Verboomen.

📰 Team News: Standard Liège

Attila Szalai (minor knock), David Bates (Knee injury) and Andi Zeqiri (ankle sprain) will not be taking part for Standard Liège gaffer Ivan Leko.

In all likelihood, Les Rouches should opt for a 3-5-2 system for this one, beginning the first half with Matthieu Epolo, Bosko Sutalo, Ibe Hautekiet, Nathan Ngoy, Marlon Fossey, J. Thierry Lazare, Ibrahim Karamoko, S. Alexandropoulos, B. Bolingoli-Mbombo, Andreas Hountondji and Dennis Eckert Ayensa.

ℹ️ Team News: Charleroi

Owing to an otherwise full-strength group of players, there’s just the sole fitness worry for the Charleroi boss Rik De Mil to contend with. Aiham Ousou (Adductor injury) misses out for this game.

It’s our belief that Les Zèbres could decide to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup with a starting lineup of Martin Delavallée, Jeremy Petris, Stelios Andreou, Massamba Sow, M. Nzita Theto, Yacine Titraoui, Adem Zorgane, Antoine Bernier, Daan Heymans, Parfait Guiagon and Nikola Stulic.

⚡ Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Standard Liège may not find it easy to score goals against this Charleroi lineup who we think might win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

That’s why our selection here is for a hard-fought 0-1 advantage for Charleroi at the end of this game.

Let’s see.

Victor Martins, 11:00 04/05/2025