RAAL La Louviere vs Standard Liege Prediction: Liege hopes to have a European season as newly promoted Louviere will be fearful

RAAL La Louviere vs Standard Liege: Prediction and Odds on the Jupiler Pro League Match on July 26, 2025

Standard Liege will travel to Easi Arena to play RAAL La Louviere in game one of the Jupiler Pro League. The two teams head into this game open to secure a positive result. The winning odds of this game is close with no team clearly favoured. How will this first-ever meeting end? Let’s get into the full game previews and offer betting opportunities. 

RAAL La Louviere: Form and Statistics

RAAL La Louviere will head into this opening game with the aim of winning as the hope to make a statement. The previous season, this team finished second in the Challenger Pro League with 59 points from 28 games. However, their recent performances up to this opener saw them win only once in six consecutive games, coming against Namur in a friendly encounter. In other encounters, RAAL La Louviere lost to Tubize-Braine, KV Mechelen, and Sporting Lokeren while settling for a draw with Differdange and Gent. 

RAAL La Louviere Team News and Lineup

Frédéric Taquin has the opportunity to choose from a fully fit squad as this team heads into this game with only one unfit player. New midfielder Ousseynou Mendy could get his first start for the club as he is expected to bring his creativity. However, Lucas Bretelle will not get his debut due to injury, while Theo Epalle should get his debut off the bench in the second half. 

🔖 RAAL La Louviere Expected Lineup

De Schrevel; Gillot, Beka Beka, Belkheir, Ito; Riou, Sidibe; Nlome, Da Costa, Mendy; Guindo

⛔️Unavailable: Lucas Bretelle (injured)

Standard Liege: Form and Statistics

Standard Liege under new head coach, Mircea Rednic will hope to deliver character after ending their season without a single win in the playoff the previous time. In the meantime, their preseason performances have been impressive, going unbeaten in four games, winning three with one ending in a draw. Ahead of this game, this team has an unbeaten run of seven games.  

Standard Liege Team News and Lineup

Standard Liege new coach, ​​Mircea Rednic will have to fill the best players for this team despite the injury of three first team players. Bosko Sutalo, Andi Zeqiri, and David Bates have all been confirmed injured and will not get any minutes in this game. Meanwhile, Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo has returned to full fitness and is expected to get straight into the starting eleven.

🔖 Standard Liege Expected Lineup

Epolo; Bolingoli, Mohr, Homawoo, Fossey; Ngoy, Ilaimaharitra, Karamoko; Eckert, Henry, Abid

⛔️Unavailable: Bosko Sutalo, Andi Zeqiri, David Bates (all injured)

RAAL La Louviere vs Standard Liege: Head-to-Head Statistics

This will be the first-ever meeting between RAAL La Louviere and Standard Liege in the topflight league. 

RAAL La Louviere vs Standard Liege: Betting Tips & Odds

• RAAL La Louviere and Standard Liege will definitely focus on avoiding defeat in this game. A draw as the final outcome of this fixture is a possibility with odds at 3.20 on Bet365.
• The previous season, Standard Liege had one of the best defenses with an average of one goal or below in consecutive games. While the newly promoted RAAL La Louviere may struggle against this team’s defense, under 2.5 goals on Betway has a 1.65 odds.
• Standard Liege have not been dominant in the league lately but their preseason performances have been promising. Away from home, they have a 2.78 odds of winning on 1Xbet.
• This will be the first ever Jupiler Pro League game for RAAL La Louviere and playing at home will be huge. A win in this encounter will be the best way to make a statement with Bet365 having an over 2.62 odds.

RAAL La Louviere vs Standard Liege Match Prediction 26 July 2025

This is a new chapter for RAAL La Louviere and I do not see them have an easy task regardless of how tight the odds are. No doubt, this did a good job in the Challenge Pro League but competition at this level seems to be tougher than they might have anticipated. On the other hand, Standard Liege did have a lot of problems last season as they struggled in offense with a lot of unproductive results which saw them fail to qualify for any European competition despite a fair start to that season. Meanwhile, in this opener, I honestly have a lot of high expectations from the visiting team who I believe have the experience blended with the better squad to get the job done in this fixture. Yet, at home, RAAL La Louviere will have a lot of advantage with their full fans support which should be a confidence boost for them. Still I feel Standard Liege will slightly edge them in this game as they have one of the best defenses in the Jupiler League as both teams should focus on avoiding defeat; hence, a bet on a few goals. 

Our match prediction is a win in either half for Standard Liege with odds at 1.90 on 1Xbet bookmaker. 

Our betting tip is under 2.5 goals with odds at 1.66 on Bet365 bookmaker. 

Our final match prediction is RAAL La Louviere under 0.5 goals with odds at 3.00 on Betway bookmaker.