📏 Form Guide

Standard Liège

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Standard Liège go into this match following on from a 1-1 First Division A - Play-Offs stalemate versus Dender.

In that game, Standard Liège had 60% possession and 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Standard Liège was Andréas Hountondji (25'). On the other side, Dender had 10 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Mohamed Berte (42') scored for Dender.

It’s not been often in recent games where Standard Liège have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Standard Liège have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 9 goals in the process.

KVC Westerlo

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In the game prior to this, KVC Westerlo drew 2-2 in the First Division A - Play-Offs tie with Charleroi.

For KVC Westerlo, the goals were scored by Matija Frigan (7') and Griffin Yow (94'). Nikola Štulić (20') and Žan Rogelj (90') scored for Charleroi.

Timmy Simons's KVC Westerlo have had reason to celebrate scoring a total of 8 times in the course of their most recent 6 matches. The overall goals that they have conceded during those same clashes adds up to 6.

👥 Head to head

An inspection of their past head to head results going back to 20/05/2023 reveals that these fixtures have not been kind to Standard Liège. They’ve not been able to come away with any victories at all while KVC Westerlo have been dominant against them, beating them in 67% of those matches.

In all, 21 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 7 of them for Les Rouches and 14 being from De Kempeneers. That is an average goals per game value of 3.5.

The previous league meeting between these sides was First Division A match day 25 on 09/02/2025 and the score finished KVC Westerlo 4-2 Standard Liège.

In that match, KVC Westerlo had 60% possession and 21 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Goals were scored by Isa Sakamoto (17'), Matija Frigan (31'), Dogucan Haspolat (46') and Islam Slimani (89').

On the other side, Standard Liège had 12 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Dennis Eckert Ayensa (10') and Andréas Hountondji (93') scored.

The referee was Bert Put.

🗞️ Team News: Standard Liège

Laurent Henkinet (Hamstring muscle injury), Attila Szalai (minor knock), David Bates (Knee injury) and Gavin Bazunu (Knee injury) are unavailable for Standard Liège manager Ivan Leko.

ℹ️ Team News: KVC Westerlo

Out of a mainly healthy group of players, there’s only the sole fitness problem for the KVC Westerlo boss Timmy Simons to contend with. Jordan Bos (Hamstring injury) won’t be playing here.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that KVC Westerlo and Standard Liège are probably both going to find scoring goals difficult here.

We’ll have to see, but a draw might be on the cards. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very even match with a 0-0 draw when all is said and done.

Renata Leite, 18:00 19/04/2025