Standard Liege vs KV Kortrijk Predictions and Betting Tips | January 10th 2025
Standard Liege will host KV Kortrijk at the Maurice Dufrasne Stadium on Friday in the 21st round of the 2024-25 Jupiler Pro League campaign. The hosts will be keen to return to winning ways and make a push for the championship round qualification in the second half of the season.
Standard’s goalless draw against Mechelen just before the winter break marked their fourth draw in their last five league matches, a run of form that has seen them fall to tenth-place in the Belgian top flight. Victory at the weekend will only be the hosts’ seventh win in 21 league matches so far and could see Ivan Leko’s team rise up as high as seventh place.
Kortrijk started the season quite brightly but have picked up points only twice in their last eight league matches, with their most recent 1-0 loss to Charleroi being the side's 12th loss in the league this season. The visitors are currently sat in second-to-the-last place in the league table and will need to turn their season around in coming weeks to potentially push out of the relegation playoffs zone.
Standard Liege vs KV Kortrijk Head-to-Head and Key Numbers
- Friday's match will mark the 81st meeting between the two sides. Standard Liege have won 40 of the previous editions of this fixture, 18 have ended in draws while Kortrijk have won the remaining 20.
- Both sides are closely matched in their last 10 meetings with the hosts having three wins, the visitors having four wins and the remaining three ending in draws.
- Standard Liege have the worst offensive record in the Belgian top-flight this season with just 12 goals scored in 20 matches.
- Kortrijk have the second-worst offensive record and the third-worst defensive record in the league with 17 goals scored and 39 conceded.
Standard Liege vs KV Kortrijk Prediction
The hosts are slight favorites going into Friday's match but will need to be at their best if they are to get all three points. Their poor record in front of goal might prove costly, despite them playing against a defensively porous side.
Kortrijk are winless in their last five matches and have won just one of their last nine. They are without a win in their last nine games on the road and could lose here.
Prediction: Standard Liege 1-0 KV Kortrijk
Standard Liege vs KV Kortrijk Betting Tips
Tip 1 - Result: Standard
Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Under 2.5 goals (Each of the last eight matches between the two teams have all produced fewer than 2.5 goals)
Tip 3 - Both teams to score: NO (Both sides have found the back of the net in five of their last six matchups)
