KV Mechelen vs Eupen Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

KV Mechelen

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KV Mechelen will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 0-4 First Division A defeat last time out to Standard Liège.

Noë Dussenne (22'), Selim Amallah (50'), Samuel Bastien (54') and Michel-Ange Balikwisha (57') scored for Standard Liège.

Three or more goals per game were seen in 5 of the past 6 meetings where KV Mechelen have taken part. Their opponents scored 9 of them in this period whereas Mechelen managed to get a total of 8. While that may be of interest, we’ll just have to find out if such a trend might be sustained in this match.

Their previous form shows that KV Mechelen:

• haven't lost in the league to Eupen in their previous 4 matches.
• have not beaten Eupen in their previous 2 league games.

Eupen

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Eupen head into the encounter following on from a 3-1 First Division A win vs Beerschot in their last fixture.

For Eupen, the goalscorers were Smail Prevljak (10'), Konan N’Dri (40') and Menno Koch (54'). Marius Noubissi (2') was the scorer for Beerschot.

The numbers tell their own story, and Eupen have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 10 goals in total. Defensively, Pandas seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

Coming into this contest, Eupen are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head clashes going back to 02/12/2016 tells us that KV Mechelen have won 3 of these & Eupen 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 2.

A combined sum of 13 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 7 from Mechelen and 6 coming from Pandas. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The previous league game between these sides was First Division A match day 10 on 03/12/2020 when it finished Eupen 1-1 KV Mechelen.

The referee was Jasper Vergoote.

📋 Team News: KV Mechelen

Nikola Storm (Muscle Injury) and Gustav Engvall (Knee Injury) won’t be playing for Mechelen gaffer Wouter Vrancken.

🗞️ Team News: Eupen

Thanks to a fully healthy squad to choose from, Eupen manager Beñat San José has zero fitness worries to speak of coming into this game.

🔮 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that KV Mechelen can and should be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

At the same time, Eupen could well find it tough getting on the scoresheet but do we see them scoring here as well.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a comfortable 3-1 margin for KV Mechelen at the end of the match.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 00:12 19/01/2021