BRUSSELS. Standard Liège conquers Union Saint-Gilloise 4-2. Union Saint-Gilloise was unquestionably better in terms of ball possession (61%).​

The match was played at the Stade Joseph Mariën stadium in Brussels on Saturday and it started at 8:45 pm local time. The referee was Jasper Vergoote with the support of Michael Geerolf and Martijn Tiesters. The 4th official was Alexandre Boucaut. The weather was cloudy. The temperature was cold at 10.3 degrees Celsius or 50.56 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 92%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Union Saint-Gilloise had a strong ball possession 61% while Standard Liège was struggling with a 39% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Union Saint-Gilloise had a more offensive attitude with 65 dangerous attacks and 15 shots of which 6 were on target. Anyway, Standard Liège found a way to find the solution to win this match.​

Union Saint-Gilloise shot 15 times, 6 on target, 4 off target. On the opposite side, Standard Liège shot 9 times, 6 on target, 2 off target.

Cards

Union Saint-Gilloise received 2 yellow cards (Teddy Teuma and Gustaf Nilsson). Regarding the opposition, Standard Liège received 6 yellow cards (Noë Dussenne, Ronny Deila, Filippo Melegoni, Marlon Fossey, Gojko Cimirot and W. Balikwisha).

Standings

After this contest, Union Saint-Gilloise will stay with 56 points to remain in the 2nd place. Regarding the opposition, Standard Liège will have 41 points to remain in the 6th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Pro League, Union Saint-Gilloise will host Mechelen on the 19th of March with a 8-3 head to head stats in favor of Mechelen (4 draws).

Standard Liège will host Zulte-Waregem on the 18th of March with a 15-15 head to head record.

Union Saint-Gilloise – Formation

Union Saint-Gilloise started with a 3-5-2 line-up (3-5-2).

The manager Karel Geraerts decided to play with the following team: Anthony Moris (6.0), Ismael Kandouss (6.4), Christian Burgess (6.8), Koki Machida (6.6), Bart Nieuwkoop (6.8), Cameron Puertas (7.3), Senne Lynen (5.4), Teddy Teuma (6.8), Loic Lapoussin (7.4), Yorbe Vertessen (7.2) and Victor Okoh Boniface (6.7).

The home team had on the bench: Casper Terho, Simon Adingra (7.1), Arnaud Dony (6.5), Oussama El Azzouzi, Lucas Pirard, Guillaume François, Gustaf Nilsson (6.4), Ross Sykes, Joachim Imbrechts and Viktor Boone.

Substitutions

Union Saint-Gilloise made 3 changes: Ismaël Kandouss for Simon Adingra (46′), Y. Vertessen for Arnaud Dony (57′) and Teddy Teuma for Gustaf Nilsson (78′).

Best player: Loic Lapoussin​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Union Saint-Gilloise was Loic Lapoussin.

His rating is (7.4) with 51 passes (82% accurate) and 1 key pass. He was won 8 duels out of 14. He performed 6 crosses.

Standard Liège – Formation

Standard Liège started with an extremely aggressive line-up (3-4-3).

Ronny Deila played with: Arnaud Bodart (7.3), Noë Dussenne (7.0), Merveille Bokadi (6.6), Konstantinos Laifis (7.2), Marlon Fossey (7.8), Steven Alzate (7.8), Gojko Cimirot (6.8), Aron Dønnum (6.8), William Balikwisha (8.1), Filippo Melegoni (6.2) and Philip Zinckernagel (7.3).

The following players were sitting on the bench: Osher Davida, Ibe Hautekiet, Lucas Noubi Ngnokam, Cihan Canak, Noah Ohio (7.0), Renaud Emond and Laurent Henkinet.

Standard Liège could not rely on the presence of C. Çanak (injured).

Substitutions

Standard Liège made 5 changes: Filippo Melegoni for Noah Ohio (62′), Philip Zinckernagel for Osher Davida (84′), Gojko Cimirot for Cihan Çanak (84′), W. Balikwisha for Ibe Hautekiet (90′) and Marlon Fossey for Lucas Noubi Ngnokam (90′).

Best player: William Balikwisha​

The most impressive player for Standard Liège was William Balikwisha.

His rating is (8.1) with 1 goal, 22 passes (77% accurate) and 1 key pass. He was won 5 duels out of 9. He performed 3 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Pro League.​

• RFC Seraing – Zulte-Waregem – 1-1
• KV Oostende – Sporting Charleroi – 0-0
• Union Saint-Gilloise – Standard Liège – 2-4
• Antwerp – AS Eupen – 2-0