📊 Form Guide

Antwerp

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Antwerp will be looking for a repeat result of a 0-3 First Division A - Play-Offs success over KAA Gent.

In that match, Antwerp managed 52% possession and 7 shots on goal with 3 on target. For Antwerp, the goalscorers were Tjaronn Chery (34', 42') and Gyrano Kerk (59'). Gent got 16 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target.

Over their last 6 fixtures, Andries Ulderink's Antwerp have celebrated scoring a total of 6 times resulting in an average number of goals per match equal to 1.

Union Saint-Gilloise

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Union Saint-Gilloise go into this match following a 0-1 First Division A - Play-Offs win to beat RSC Anderlecht in their most recent outing.

In that match, Union Saint-Gilloise had 39% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Union Saint-Gilloise was Mohammed Fuseini (27'). On the other side, Anderlecht got 6 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

A sequence of very capable performances from the Union Saint-Gilloise defenders has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 1 from their last 6 outings combined. In that time, their forwards have scored 7.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head clashes going back to 28/04/2024 tells us that Antwerp have won 2 of these games & Union Saint-Gilloise 4, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 23 in total which averages out at 3.83 goals per match.

The previous league clash between these clubs was First Division A - Play-Offs match day 1 on 29/03/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Union Saint-Gilloise 5-1 Antwerp.

In that game, Union Saint-Gilloise managed 49% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 9 on target. Goals were scored by Anan Khalaili (4'), Promise David (14'), Franjo Ivanović (45', 87') and Koki Machida (71').

On the other side, Antwerp had 6 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Gyrano Kerk (37') scored.

The match was refereed by Nicolas Laforge.

📋 Team News: Antwerp

Toby Alderweireld (Hamstring muscle injury), Björn Engels (Achilles heel problems), Vincent Janssen (Meniscus tear), Jelle Bataille (Achilles tendon problems) and Anthony Valencia (Cruciate ligament tear) are unavailable for Antwerp gaffer Andries Ulderink.

We think that The Great Old may well go for a 4-2-3-1 formation featuring Senne Lammens, Semm Renders, Zeno Van Den Bosch, Jairo Riedewald, Olivier Deman, Mahamadou Doumbia, Dennis Praet, Gyrano Kerk, Tjaronn Chery, M. Ange Balikwisha and Mohamed Bayo.

ℹ️ Team News: Union Saint-Gilloise

Thanks to a mainly available group, there is just a single fitness problem for the Union Saint-Gilloise boss Sébastien Pocognoli to contend with. Guillaume François (unknown injury) misses out for this game.

It’s our belief that Les Unionistes will likely elect for a 3-4-1-2 formation by sending out Anthony Moris, Kevin Mac Allister, Ross Sykes, Koki Machida, Anan Khalaili, Charles Vanhoutte, Noah Sadiki, Ousseynou Niang, Anouar Ait El Hadj, Franjo Ivanovic and Mohammed Fuseini.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that Antwerp will manage to find the back of the net against this Union Saint-Gilloise lineup, although just one goal is unlikely to be as many as they will have scored against them.

We are therefore anticipating a 1-2 victory for Union Saint-Gilloise after 90 minutes. Could easily go either way, this.

Lucas Pereira, 18:00 17/05/2025