OH Leuven vs Cercle Brugge betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Pro League match on August 18th, 2024

OH Leuven and Cercle Brugge will play on Sunday, August 18th, 2024, at 14:00h (UTC), in a Pro League game to be held in Belgium, check the OH Leuven vs Cercle Brugge betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where OH Leuven vs Cercle Brugge will occur

The game takes place in the small King Power at Den Dreef Stadion stadium, in the city of Heverlee, with a capacity for 12500 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

Where to follow the live game

Including statistics, events and odds, you can follow the match live with access to all the information to help with your sports betting on Betarena.

Introduction to the OH Leuven vs Cercle Brugge betting tip 2024/2025

OH Leuven comes from a draw in the last match played. On that occasion the opponent was Anderlecht, in a match valid for Pro League, and the match ended 1-1. Coach Ó. García Junyent's team lined up with this formation: 3-4-2-1.

The other team was the big favorite for this match, therefore the draw (odd 4.10) ended up being a good result.

Certainly not a good performance for OH Leuven, although some players performed above average, such as Konan N'Dri. The player was decisive to his team in avoiding defeat with his presence on the field and some excellent interventions during the match.

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a victory in the last round. In a dispute valid for Pro League, Cercle Brugge, who used a 4-2-3-1 formation, faced the K. Beerschot V.A. team with a final score of 4-1.

The positive result confirmed that the team's favoritism before the start of the match was certain, making the odds 1.48.

OH Leuven was in 15th place when they last went head-to-head in Pro League against Cercle Brugge, who was in 7th place. OH Leuven formed a 3-4-3 arrangement while Cercle Brugge took to the pitch with a 4-2-3-1 formation.

The last encounter between these two it was a close fight.

These two clubs faced each other for the last time in a match of the 2023/2024 Pro League season. The match, played on 16-12-2023, recorded the 1-2 win for Cercle Brugge.

This match will be officiated by B. Van Driessche and duly assisted by Y. De Neve and Q. Lesceux from the sideline.

OH Leuven

Current leaderboard

OH Leuven is currently in 6th place in the table, with 5 points achieved up to 4th round.

OH Leuven analysis

The ratio of goals scored to goals conceded for OH Leuven is positive: after 3 rounds the team has scored 4 goals, conceding only 2.

his ball possession percentage is 41.67% in this tournament, which is why the team shows rather a waiting game than an offensive one. Fans fear that this could pose a problem in scoring in the next match against Cercle Brugge and would like a more aggressive attitude with more goals from their favorites.

William Balikwisha's life is not being easy in this beginning of his trajectory for his new club. Hired for this season, the player has not been performing well, a fact that was repeated in OH Leuven last game. Against Anderlecht, once again he failed to score goals, accumulating another bad performance.

Cercle Brugge

Current leaderboard

Cercle Brugge is actually in 10th place in the league after the 4th round, having won 3 points from games so far this season.

Cercle Brugge analysis

Currently, in the Pro League, Cercle Brugge sums 5 goals for and a total of 6 goals against, after 3 rounds played.

With an average of 4.33 shots on goal per match, Cercle Brugge certainly cannot call itself a fearsome, or particularly prolific, attack, and this is another very good indicator to take into account in evaluations.

Teams can usually exert control over their opponents with ball possession above 50%. Therefore, the Cercle Brugge team typically seeks to control the game with an average ball possession of 57%.

For punters some entries may be interesting for this game, namely:

As we are at the beginning of the competition, there is still little data to be studied, that allows suggestions for good bets. However, it is important to note that, usually, in the first games of a tournament, the matches have goals in the first half. The teams are still getting familiar, and there is no interest in maintaining any specific result due to the leaderboard.

Corners Top Betting Tips

Although the sample is still small, and therefore less accurate, due to the tournament being in the initial rounds, it is already possible to have an average of corners won by these teams. Adding the number of corner shots of these two teams, we reach an average of 6.84 per game.

Cercle Brugge is usually quite offensive in their matches, and this has resulted in a high average of corner kicks in the competition. Currently, the team averages 9.67 corners per game played. Therefore, it might be interesting to bet on the over corner kicks of Cercle Brugge in this match.

Goals Top Betting Tips

A good betting parameter could be the number of goals scored and conceded by both teams at the start of the championship round. OH Leuven didn't score any goal in the last round of the competition and conceded in 2 opportunities, while Cercle Brugge scored 5 times and conceded 6 goals as well.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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