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St. Liege vs Gent Prediction & Betting tips
The new season in the Belgian Jupiler League opens on Friday with a real top game. Opposite are Standard Liege and KAA Gent. Thus it comes to the meeting of the runner-up and cup winner and the fourth of the preseason. The preparation of Liège was mixed and finally resulted in a bitter defeat in the first competitive game of the season. Ghent has a fantastic record from the pre-season matches, which is quickly put into perspective when you look at your opponents. In the direct duel between Standard Liège and Ghent, the home side are considered to be an easy favorite according to the betting odds. The betting base has for Liege vs. Ghent found a good tip.
Standard Liège:
Until the penultimate round of the preseason, Standard Liège’s side had been dreaming of their first championship since 2009. Standard Liège then welcomed the leading club Bruges, who had four points more at the time. In a heated game in which there were ten yellow cards – five of them in stoppage time alone – it was enough for Standard Liege only to a 1: 1. Thus, the championship title was lost, the standard Liège but already playful in the main round. With a record of eleven wins, draws and eight defeats, Standard Liège just finished sixth and thus last for the championship round. There standard Liege then trumped and brought six wins and three draws from ten games. The recovery was rewarded in the end only limited and yet stands since mid-March this year, a trophy in the trophy cabinet of the club.
Standard Liège won the national cup against KRC Genk 1-0 after extra time. As a result, Standard Liege also secured the game for the Supercup at the beginning of the new season. Against Champions FC Bruges drew Standard Liège on 22/07/2018 in a balanced match with 1: 2 just the short straw. In preparation for the Supercup and in any case for the new season Standard Liège was able to contest the friendly matches with moderate success. Against the three Belgian amateurs Sprimont-Comblain (5: 2), Waremme (3: 3) and Tubize (1: 0) there were two wins and one draw and a proud five goals conceded! Against Celtic Glasgow Standard Liege was at 1: 4 chance and also the match against the French second division Nancy, who narrowly escaped relegation to the third division in the preseason, was lost 1: 2.
Ghent:
KAA Gent scored six points more than Standard Liege in the main round of the preseason and finished fourth in the so-called Championship group. Ghent also finished the season in that rank, though even the championship was possible. However, Gent took only two out of a possible eighteen points on matchdays three to eight of the championship round. With two wins against Charleroi, who finished last in the championship group and won only the two games against Gent, Gent would have been runner-up. The gap to champions Brugge, whom Ghent was able to beat twice in the championship round, was seven points at the end. After finishing fourth, Ghent secured a place in the qualification for the Europa League, but will only get there in the third round.
The preparation of Ghent reads like a dream: in nine test matches there were eight wins and only one draw. But among the opponents were, among other things, six amateurs from Belgium and a Belgian second division. The only significant tests were therefore against the Greek runners-up and cup winner PAOK Saloniki, against which Ghent in the fifth minute of injury time a 1-1 and the French first division Racing Strasbourg, the Ghent in the last test last weekend at 1-0 could beat. Ghent scored the golden goal from the penalty spot five minutes from time. Overall, Ghent was extremely accurate in the preparations and scored 33 goals in the nine friendly matches. Against Standard Liege Ghent was able to win in the main round of the preseason at home and fetch a goalless draw away. In the championship round, however, both comparisons went to the opponent.
St. Liege vs Gent head to head matches
29.04.18 JL Gent St. Liege 1 : 3
14.04.18 JL St. Liege Gent 1 : 0
16.12.17 JL St. Liege Gent 0 : 0
03.11.17 JL Gent St. Liege 1 : 0
19.02.17 JL St. Liege Gent 1 : 1