Cercle Brugge KSV vs Standard Liege Prediction: Goals will fly in here

The playoff match between Cercle Brugge KSV and Standard Liege will take place at Jan Breydel Stadion. Cercle Brugge have a slight edge in this matchup, and the visiting Standard Liege are coming off a setback to Leuven.

Cercle Brugge KSV - home team will score first

Following their victory over Zulte Waregem by a score of 2-3 in the First Division A, Cercle Brugge will be hoping for a similar performance here. During that match, Cercle Brugge were able to achieve 45% possession of the ball and 21 shots on goal, with 8 of those shots landing in the target area. Hugo Siquet, Ayase Ueda, and Thibo Somers scored the goals for Cercle Brugge in the first, eighth, and eighty-third minutes, respectively. Their competitors, Zulte Waregem, had 11 shots on goal, with only three of them being on target. SV Zulte Waregem got goals from Lukas Willen in the 59th minute and Alioune Ndour in the 68th minute. In recent matchups, a streak of unblemished records for Cercle Brugge's games has been exceedingly uncommon. In fact, Cercle Brugge have allowed goals to be scored against them in five of their last six matches, totaling eight conceded goals in the process.

Standard Liege - expect a much defensive Liege side

After suffering a defeat in their previous match in First Division A action against Oud-Heverlee Leuven, both Standard Liège and their supporters will be hoping for a better outcome in this contest. During that match, Standard Liège had a possession rate of 55% and 14 shots on goal, with five of those shots landing in the target area. Both of Standard Liège's goals came from Merveille Bokadi in the 55th minute and Filippo Melegoni in the 91st minute. Oud-Heverlee Leuven, their rival team, had a total of 12 shots on goal, only five of which were on target. Oud-Heverlee Leuven got goals from Nathan Opoku in the 43rd minute and Jón Dagur Thorsteinsson in the 63rd and 67th minutes. The previous six times that Standard Liège took to the field, they scored a total of 21 goals, which resulted in an average of 3.5 goals for each matchup. However, nine of those goals have been scored by opposing teams.

Head-Head Statistics

Both Cercle Brugge and Standard Liège have an impressive head-to-head record against one another. Over the course of the last seasons, the two teams have competed against one another 32 times, with Standard Liège coming out on top 21 times. There were seven games that were decided by a tie. In the head-to-head matchups, Cercle Brugge scored 19 goals, while Standard Liège managed to score 56 goals.

Expert Betting Tips

Both of these clubs are known to put up a lot of goals, and we do not anticipate that this match will be an exception. Despite this, we will be cheering for Standard Liege to do well in this match, as the fact that the odds are stacked against them does not make us particularly thrilled.