📏 Form Guide

Antwerp

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Antwerp will play in this game coming off the back of a 0-0 Pro League Play Offs draw against KRC Genk.

In that match, Antwerp managed 37% possession and 13 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Genk had 34 attempts on goal with 13 on target.

It has not been often in recent games where Antwerp haven’t conceded. In fact, Antwerp have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 12 goals on the way. Such a pattern won’t necessarily be continued into this match, though.

KVC Westerlo

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Standard Liège in Pro League Play Offs action, KVC Westerlo will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, KVC Westerlo had 60% possession and 24 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for KVC Westerlo was Dogucan Haspolat (12'). Standard Liege got 12 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Timothé Nkada (18') and Rafiki Saïd (41') scored for Standard Liège.

Showing their partiality to high-scoring matches, goals have been celebrated 21 times in the previous six games in which KVC Westerlo have sent out their troops, making it an average of 3.5 goals for each meeting. Opposition teams have managed 12 of those goals.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings going back to 23/12/2023 shows us that Antwerp have won 3 of these games & KVC Westerlo 2, with the number of drawn results being 1.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 22 overall at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Pro League Play Offs match day 35 on 25/04/2026 when it finished KVC Westerlo 2-4 Antwerp.

On that day, KVC Westerlo had 35% possession and 10 shots on goal with 4 on target. Goals were scored by Isa Sakamoto (58') and Shunsuke Saito (87').

On the other side, Antwerp had 20 attempts at goal with 12 on target. Vincent Janssen (25', 28'), Christopher Scott (44') and Gyrano Kerk (60') scored.

The match was refereed by Nicolas Laforge.

📋 Team News: Antwerp

Vincent Janssen (minor knock), Zeno Van Den Bosch (minor knock), Youssef Hamdaoui (minor knock) and Björn Engels (Achilles heel problems) won’t be available for Antwerp gaffer Joseph Oosting.

📋 Team News: KVC Westerlo

Thanks to a mainly available group of players, there is just the sole fitness worry for the KVC Westerlo boss Issame Charaï to be concerned about. Eliot Bujupi (Knee injury) won’t be playing here.

💭 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that KVC Westerlo have the ability to score against this Antwerp team, however that possibly won’t quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

We are anticipating a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning score for Antwerp at the end of the 90 minutes. It’s a very tough call.

Andre Moura, 18:01 23/05/2026