📏 Form Guide

Dender

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Dender will be wanting a better result here following the 5-2 First Division A - Play-Offs loss in their previous game against KV Mechelen.

In that match, Dender managed 48% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. For Dender, goals were scored by Bruny Nsimba (59') and Mohamed Berte (90'). On the other side, Mechelen had 20 attempts on goal with 10 on target. Nikola Storm (10'), Lion Lauberbach (14', 56') and Rob Schoofs (21', 42') scored for KV Mechelen.

Over their preceding six fixtures, Vincent Euvrard's Dender have found the net a combined total of 5 times which gives them an average number of goals scored per match equal to 0.83.

Standard Liège

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Charleroi in First Division A - Play-Offs action, Standard Liège and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Standard Liège had 45% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 1 on target. At the other end, Charleroi got 12 shots on goal with 3 on target. Antoine Bernier (44') scored for Charleroi.

Looking at their form, and Standard Liège have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals in all. Defensively, Standard Liège could really do with shoring things up.

👥 Head to head

Looking at past results between these clubs going back to 03/05/2008 reveals that these fixtures have not been fruitful for Dender. They’ve not managed to register any wins at all whereas Standard Liège have maintained the edge over them, finishing as winners in 100 per cent of those ties.

16 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 3 of them from Dender and 13 being from Les Rouches. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The last league match featuring these clubs was First Division A match day 23 on 26/01/2025 when it finished Standard Liège 1-0 Dender.

In that game, Standard Liège managed 35% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Their only player to score was Andi Zeqiri (2').

Dender had 16 shots at goal with 3 on target.

The match was refereed by Nathan Verboomen.

🗞️ Team News: Dender

Jasper Van Oudenhove (unknown injury), Joedrick Pupe (minor knock) and Karol Fila (Cruciate ligament tear) are not available for Dender gaffer Vincent Euvrard.

📋 Team News: Standard Liège

Standard Liège boss Ivan Leko has a number of players out of action. Laurent Henkinet (Hamstring muscle injury), Attila Szalai (minor knock), David Bates (Knee injury) and Alexandro Calut (Partial muscle tear) are not ready for selection.

💭 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Standard Liège should have enough to find the back of the net against this Dender lineup, however it probably won’t quite be enough to avoid defeat.

We think that it’s going to be a narrow 2-1 win for Dender at the end of the 90 minutes. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

Peter Guest, 17:00 13/04/2025