Oostende VS St. Truiden MATCH PREDICTION

PRE-MATCH ANALYSIS

Six Belgian teams will enter on the grounds tonight. Except the national el-clasico, there are two regular games. In one of them Oostende will meet Sint-Truiden at its Versluys Arena. Will the guests earn some points?

As they know, the Belgian Pro League consisits of two parts. Firstly, all sixteen clubs play each other in the regular tournament. Secondly, the best ones compete in the Championship play-offs, the rest takes part in the Europa League play-offs.

Oostende got the eleventh team of the regular season. The Reds earned 36 points thanks to ten wins and six draws. They have fourteen losses too. The hosts have scored and conceded almost the same number of goals. 42 vs 41.

De KustBoys has the horrible start of the season with five consecutive defeats with the total score 4:11. The first victory occurred just in ninth match day. The second part of Autumn as well as February were the most successful periods in its record. Oostende has been unbeaten within six and five games, respectively.

After the preliminary part of the competitions the home side was redirected to the Group B of the Europa League play-offs. There it has been drawn twice with Royal Antwerp and Eupen, 3:3 and 1:1, correspondingly.

Sint-Truiden earned 37 points and finished on the tenth position. An overall team’s stats contain nine wins, ten draws and eleven losses. The Canaries demonstrated poor scoring skills with 29 goals after 30 games. They have conceded 41 goals.

The away team began the season by winning over Gent 3:2. The guest had no long losing streaks, two losses as a maximum. The visitors had some undefeated lines. The first one included four wins and a draw. The second line consisted of five draws in a row.

Nowadays Sint-Truiden plays in the group B of the Europa League play-offs. There it lost to Lokeren 1:0 and beat Royal Antwerp 4:0.



The last H2H meetings ended with home sides’ wins, 2:0 and 1:0, respectively.

Oostende won 6 home matches out of 16 possible. Sint-Truiden lost every second game at away.

The bookmakers suppose Oostende has a little bit more chances for success than Sint-Truiden. The hosts played their last two games with a draw. We do not believe they can pass to the win quickly. We predict the guests’ double chance with a good coefficient of 1.81.