Standard Liège take on Dender in Saturday’s forthcoming First Division A - Play-Offs fixture.
All Standard Liège v Dender game predictions, stats and user poll are shown below - plus the latest match odds.
📊
Form Guide
Join Bet365 to take advantage of great odds and live streaming. Registration required. 21+ T&Cs apply. Please gamble responsibly. Need support or help? Call the NCPG on 1-800-GAMBLER
Standard Liège
DDLDLD 📉
Standard Liège head into this game after a 0-0 First Division A - Play-Offs drawn game vs KV Mechelen.
Fewer than three goals per game were recorded in 6 of the last 6 meetings where Standard Liège have been involved. With regard to the goal distribution during this period, opposing sides scored an aggregate of 5 and Standard Liège managed a tally of 3. We will have to find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.
Dender
DDWLLW ⚖
Dender will go into this match following a 5-0 First Division A - Play-Offs win over Oud-Heverlee Leuven in their last game.
Proving their involvement in productive matches, goals have been seen as many as 29 times in the prior six games in which Dender have taken to the pitch, making it a mean average of 4.83 goals per clash. Opposition teams have managed 14 of this grand total.
👥
Head to head
An examination of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 16/08/2008 tells us that these encounters have not been kind to Dender. They’ve not been able to get themselves any victories whatsoever whereas Standard Liège have been the better of the two, getting wins in 83 per cent of those ties.
In all, 15 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 11 from Les Rouches and 4 netted by Dender. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.
📰
Team News: Standard Liège
Boli Bolingoli (minor knock), David Bates (Knee injury), Andi Zeqiri (ankle sprain) and Bosko Sutalo (minor knock) are unavailable for Standard Liège gaffer Ivan Leko.
In our view, Les Rouches should line up in a 3-5-2 system for the game, utilising Matthieu Epolo, Daan Dierckx, Ibe Hautekiet, Nathan Ngoy, Marlon Fossey, Henry Lawrence, Ibrahim Karamoko, Marko Bulat, Léandre Kuavita, Andreas Hountondji and Dennis Eckert Ayensa.
ℹ️
Team News: Dender
Dender boss Vincent Euvrard has a number of players out of action. Ragnar Oratmangoen (infection), Tom Holmes (minor knock), Joedrick Pupe (Injury to abdominal muscles), Noah Mbamba (Muscle injury), Michael Lallemand (Ankle injury) and Karol Fila (Cruciate ligament tear) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.
There’s a good chance that Dender seem likely to make use of a 5-3-2 lineup, starting Guillaume Dietsch, David Hrncar, Gilles Ruyssen, Keres Masangu, Bryan Goncalves, Dembo Sylla, Roman Kvet, Nathan Rodes, Malcolm Viltard, Aurélien Scheidler and Bruny Nsimba.
⚡
Prediction
In our opinion, Dender should be able to breach the defence of this Standard Liège team, however it might not be as many as they will have scored against them.
We’re tipping a very close game with a 2-1 advantage for Standard Liège at the end of this one. We’ll have to see what happens.
💵
⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?
Regarding the current betting odds on the win-draw-win market, the win for Standard Liège is available for 2.38, backing a draw is 3.3 & staking on the winning team to be Dender gets you 2.9. Those are the best of the market prices offered at the current time.
Peter Guest,
08:03 13/05/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
⚽️ Team Focus:
Standard Liège
Formed: 1898
Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne (27,670)
Chairman: Pierre Locht
Manager: Ivan Leko
Competitions: First Division A position 7
⭐ Key Player: Andi Zeqiri
Regularly played in the Striker position, Andi Zeqiri was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. After having made a senior debut playing for FC Lausanne-Sport in the 2017 - 2018 season, the gifted Forward has scored 9 league goals in the Pro League 2024 - 2025 campaign so far coming from a total of 25 appearances.