📏 Form Guide

Oud-Heverlee Leuven

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Oud-Heverlee Leuven enter this match following on from a 1-1 First Division A - Play-Offs draw versus Standard Liège.

In that match, Oud-Heverlee Leuven had 55% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Oud-Heverlee Leuven was Siebe Schrijvers (38'). At the other end, Standard Liege got 11 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. Andréas Hountondji (81') was the scorer for Standard Liège.

In their past six fixtures, Chris Coleman's Oud-Heverlee Leuven have scored 9 times - an average number of goals per match equal to 1.5.

KV Mechelen

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In their last game, KV Mechelen drew 2-2 in the First Division A - Play-Offs tie with KVC Westerlo.

In that match, KV Mechelen managed 52% possession and 13 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. For KV Mechelen, the goals were scored by Lion Lauberbach (58') and José Marsà (77'). Westerlo had 16 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Islam Slimani (73') and Griffin Yow (97') scored for KVC Westerlo.

The numbers tell their own story, and KV Mechelen have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 13 goals in total. In defence, KV Mechelen have not been doing too well.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head clashes going back to 17/03/2024 tells us that Oud-Heverlee Leuven have won 2 of these games and KV Mechelen 3, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

17 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 5 of them for OHL and 12 being from Mechelen. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The previous league match featuring these sides was First Division A - Play-Offs match day 3 on 13/04/2025 which finished with the scoreline of KV Mechelen 1-1 Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

In that match, KV Mechelen had 57% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Their only player to score was Lion Lauberbach (17').

On the other side, Oud-Heverlee Leuven had 9 attempts on goal with 1 on target. Siebe Schrijvers (20') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Jan Boterberg.

📋 Team News: Oud-Heverlee Leuven

Mathieu Maertens (Partial muscle tear), Antef Tsoungui (Cruciate ligament tear), Jovan Mijatović (minor knock) and Takahiro Akimoto (Thigh problems) are unavailable for Oud-Heverlee Leuven boss Chris Coleman.

We think that OHL should line up in a 4-3-1-2 formation featuring Tobe Leysen, Óscar Gil, Hasan Kurucay, Ewoud Pletinckx, Ayumu Ohata, Siebe Schrijvers, Birger Verstraete, Ezechiel Banzuzi, Youssef Maziz, Thibaud Verlinden and C. Ikwuemesi.

📰 Team News: KV Mechelen

KV Mechelen manager Frédéric Vanderbiest has some current player fitness concerns. Ahmed Touba (Hamstring muscle injury), Daam Foulon (Calf muscle tear) and Zinho Vanheusden (Inguinal hernia) are not able to play.

It’s our belief that KV Mechelen will likely elect for a 5-4-1 lineup, starting the game with Ortwin De Wolf, Rafik Belghali, Stephen Welsh, Bas Van den Eynden, Toon Raemaekers, José Marsà, Kerim Mrabti, Fredrik Hammar, Rob Schoofs, Nikola Storm and Lion Lauberbach.

💭 Prediction

It seems to us that KV Mechelen and Oud-Heverlee Leuven could both end up scoring in what appears to be a good match-up, with little separating these two teams.

Let’s see how this one goes, but it looks this could be a draw. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very close game with a 1-1 scoreline when all is said and done.

Victor Martins, 16:02 03/05/2025