📊 Form Guide

Standard Liège

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Standard Liège enter this match after a 0-0 First Division A - Play-Offs stalemate against KV Mechelen.

In that game, Standard Liège had 54% possession and 21 shots at goal with 6 on target. For their opponents, Mechelen got 6 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

Matches with Standard Liège have usually been engaging affairs lately with a lot of goalmouth action the rule rather than the exception. Over their past half dozen games, the sum total of 22 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 11 of them belonging to Standard Liège. However, it remains to be seen if the trend shall persist in this upcoming game.

Sint-Truidense VV

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against KAA Gent in First Division A - Play-Offs competition, Sint-Truidense VV will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Sint-Truidense VV managed 60% possession and 17 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Gent got 15 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Tarik Tissoudali (44') and Stefan Mitrović (85') scored for KAA Gent.

Looking at their form, and Sint-Truidense VV have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals in total. In defence, Sint-Truidense VV have not been doing too well.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 10/04/2022 shows that Standard Liège have won 1 of these & Sint-Truidense VV 2, with the tally of drawn results being 3.

In all, 17 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 7 for Les Rouches and 10 belonging to De Kanaries. The average goals per game has been 2.83.

The last league encounter featuring the two was First Division A - Play-Offs match day 3 on 12/04/2024 which ended up with the score at Sint-Truidense VV 3-3 Standard Liège.

On that day, Sint-Truidense VV had 69% possession and 16 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. The scorers were Eric Junior Bocat (3'), Adriano Bertaccini (84') and Fatih Kaya (88').

Standard Liège got 17 shots on goal with 10 on target. Wilfried Kanga (9', 81') and William Balikwisha (59') scored.

The referee was Wesli De Cremer.

🗞️ Team News: Standard Liège

Marlon Fossey (Knee injury), Nathan Ngoy (Hamstring injury), Souleyman Doumbia (minor knock), Zinho Vanheusden (Inguinal hernia), Aiden O'Neill (Syndesmotic ligament tear) and Laurent Henkinet (Knee surgery) won’t be available for Standard Liège manager Ivan Leko.

It’s our opinion that Les Rouches should use the 3-1-4-2 formation for the game with Matthieu Epolo, Lucas Noubi, Konstantinos Laifis, Jonathan Panzo, Hakim Sahabo, Isaac Price, Hayao Kawabe, Kamal Sowah, Moussa Djenepo, Kelvin Yeboah and Wilfried Kanga.

🗞️ Team News: Sint-Truidense VV

We believe De Kanaries seem likely to elect for a 3-4-2-1 formation using Zion Suzuki, Wolke Janssens, Matte Smets, Rein Van Helden, R. Vanwesemael, Ryoya Ogawa, Ryotaro Ito, Mathias Delorge, Adriano Bertaccini, Joselpho Barnes and Kahveh Zahiroleslam.

✨ Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Sint-Truidense VV certainly have the ability to find the net against this Standard Liège side, however it probably shouldn’t be enough to avoid defeat.

We can see both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Standard Liège at full-time. Should be a good one.

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Lucas Pereira, 16:02 27/04/2024