Standard Liege – Brugge, First Division A Prediction
ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION FOR STANDARD - BRUGGES
Standard Liege’s form is mildly weak. Standard’s last game was bad and they had the misfortune of losing the match against Gent, which had not even a victory in these groups, and this happened at home so they seem to have totally canceled the season. Even though they still have the chance at least to finish third and to participate directly in the Europa League group stage, but in that condition this looks highly unlikely.
Bruges made a sensational comeback against Genk in the big game of the previous round and thus accomplished one of the main tasks before reaching the big goal. Now they have to take the remaining two games to the end and hope for Genk mistake, who are guests of Anderlecht. The difference is three points and three goals goal difference.
We think that here the difference not only in the classes but also in the shape and motivation of the two teams will have a huge impact. A problem may be the statistics that show that Bruges has no win over Liège in 4 consecutive away games, but previously recorded a lot of them and we think it’s a good time now to break the bad series. Bruges has a lot of qualities forward and Liege are in the “grey zone”, so our forecast is Bruges – Over 1.5 goals at 1.63.
Liege is in a series of 4 consecutive losses in which they allowed at least two goals
Bruges scored seven goals in their last two games against Standard
LIEGE TEAM NEWS
Djenepo (31/8 M), Vanheusden (26/2 D), Orlando Sá (18/1 F), Bokadi (13/1 M) are out.
BRUGGE TEAM NEWS
Cools (15/1 D), Mitrovic (12/0 D), Vlietinck (11/1 D), Rezaei (11/1 F) are out.