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St. Liege vs Waasland-Beveren Prediction & Betting tips
After the topper in Jan Breydel, Standard de Liège can prepare itself on Wednesday evening for the arrival of Waasland-Beveren. Can Standard increase the pressure on Club Brugge leader or does Waasland-Beveren surprisingly take one or more points in Sclessin? Now that the penultimate is in the rankings, it can use points win very well. Do they know what to do with the surprise or do they return empty-handed?
Standard Liege:
Michel Preud’Homme said well before the season and it did start that Standard still had a lot of work to do. Now, twelve match days later, MPH can look back on a very strong preliminary first round. Standard is in a good second place on three points from leader Club Brugge, which has had one match less. Wish it was just last matchday that the top poster between Club and Standard was on the program …
After a catchy tribute to Club legend Raoul Lambert, who turned seventy-five last week, it was surprisingly not the home team, but Standard that took over the game. Already after five minutes Lestienne Bastien guided through the blue-black defense, the striker put the 0-1 neatly beside Mignolet in goal. With an early goal in his pocket, Standard was able to retreat to the own half in a compact formation. Club Brugge therefore had a lot of ball possession, but found few or no openings in the red armor. That stalemate remained on the field for almost the entire first half, resulting in an absolute minimum of scoring opportunities. With the peace in sight, Standard finally came out of his hedgehog position and that almost resulted in a second goal. Obbi Oulare left two excellent chances in the 0-2. After a (suspected) thunder sermon and a double substitution by Clement, Club started with a completely different face in the second half. Substitute Balanta sent Vormer in-depth, and with his 8th assist of the season, Okereke offered the tying run. Club did not settle for a point division and tried to secure Standard in its own half. However, the pressing of the home team was not very impressive, among other things due to a pale performance by game distributor Hans Vanaken. The number of opportunities was therefore again limited. The home team still threatened with long shots from Diagne and Diatta, but Standard goalkeeper Bodart never really ran into problems again. At Standard, too, the sharpness was gone in the second half. The substitute Avenatti was once again unable to convince. This disappointing topper remained at 1-1.
Michel Preud’homme was particularly pleased with what Standard showed before the break: “In the first half we were in good position, we were good in possession of the ball and we found space. The only regret is that we were unable to score a second goal Then we could have claimed the victory, so if you quickly get a hit after the break, you know that the audience will also stand behind it, and we were a bit impressed and couldn’t come out after the break. ” In the end, Preud’homme was able to make peace with the division of points: “Of course you hope to win here, especially if you are in the mood, like we are here in the first half. But a draw against such a strong team as Club , that remains a good performance anyway. ”
Waasland-Beveren:
Before the first ball was kicked off, Waasland-Beveren was already considered one of the relegation candidates. After twelve match days they also do justice to that name. So it only managed to get seven points and it could only win once. It has a particularly difficult time with the scoring ability. For example, it only scored nine times, but it did score twenty-five. This means that the goal difference is only slightly worse than Eupen, but it has, for example, three points less. Last Sunday, PhD student Mechelen visited.
There was no question of any level difference in the first half. Waasland-Beveren, the number fifteen, bit nicely against KV Mechelen, which shared the third position. KV Mechelen was released after twenty minutes when Vukotic headed a corner just wide of the post. A little later the Albanian Greek Durmishaj aimed the ball to the square, but goalie Thoelen could not be caught for one hole. At KV Mechelen, too, the focus was initially not on. When De Camargo seemed to complete a perfect counter with his head, the bar turned out to be a cross. It was a postponement of execution for Waasland-Beveren, because just before the half-time signal the ball was still in the basket, again after a counter-strike. This time Vanlerberghe swung the ball from left to right, where Kaya was lurking and the leather slid low over goalie Jackers, 0-1, and the score at halftime. Waasland-Beveren quickly returned to the match in the second half. Woelwater Durmishaj tapped a long lost ball on the back line in front of the Mechelen defenders. Via Koita, Kobayashi was able to score the 1-1 with a lovely curl in the short corner. The game continued to wave up and down, and even in the wrong passes and misunderstandings, both teams did not admit each other to each other. When Schryvers, hunted by a Malinois, played the ball backwards, he almost grabbed his own goalkeeper. Also this time it was a harbinger for a Mechelen goal, because a few minutes later it was Tshibola who unnecessarily headed a Mechelen free kick into the Wase: 1-2 for KVM. Waasland-Beveren refused to give up, but always found a strong Thoelen on his way. KV Mechelen was able to look the cat out of the tree and cheerfully counter it. That is how Kaya seemed on his way to 1-3 when he received a handy tap from De Camargo. The wild shot of the Mechelen captain flew everyone by. Waasland-Beveren played knight or mass and it went wrong. As the sharpness broke out of the game, the belief in a good ending also disappeared. Certainly when a new, perfect counter-shot meant the deadly 1-3. Togui completed the campaign and treated a brave Waasland-Beveren to a seventh season defeat.
Goalkeeper Nordin Jackers was very disappointed afterwards: “This is a big disappointment. The luck was on the Mechelen side tonight. That 1-2 is a bloke. For the rest there was a balance in the match. We have a good group, we can still do great things with these players. ”
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