BRUSSELS. Sint-Truiden beats Union Saint-Gilloise 1-0 after C. Bruls scored a penalty (54′). Union Saint-Gilloise was much better in terms of ball possession (68%).​

D. Vanzeir squandered a decisive penalty (90′). That would have allowed Union Saint-Gilloise to draw the match.​

The match was played at the Stade Joseph Mariën stadium in Brussels on Sunday and it started at 4:00 pm local time. The referee was Bert Put with the support of Martijn Tiesters and Lennert Becquet. The 4th official was Kevin Van Damme. The weather was clear. The temperature was cold at 10 degrees Celsius or 50.04 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 65%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Union Saint-Gilloise had a strong ball possession 68% while Sint-Truiden was struggling with a 32% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Union Saint-Gilloise had a more offensive attitude with 47 dangerous attacks and 11 shots of which 1 were on target. Even so, Sint-Truiden succeeded in find the solution to win this encounter.​

Union Saint-Gilloise shot 11 times, 1 on target, 7 off target. Regarding the opposition, Sint-Truiden shot 13 times, 5 on target, 5 off target.

Cards

Union Saint-Gilloise received 5 yellow cards (I. Kandouss, D. Undav, G. Francois, C. Nielsen and T. Teuma). On the other side, Sint-Truiden received 2 yellow cards (D. Lavalee and D. Schmidt).

Standings

After this match, Union Saint-Gilloise will stay with 60 points to sit in the 1st place. Regarding the opposition, Sint-Truiden will have 34 points like Kortrijk to hold in the 11th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Pro League, Union Saint-Gilloise will play away with Sporting Charleroi on the 19th of February with a 1-1 head to head stats.

Sint-Truiden will host OH Leuven on the 20th of February with a 7-4 head to head record in favor of Sint-Truiden (2 draws).

Union Saint-Gilloise – Formation

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

The manager Felice Mazzù decided to play with the following team: Anthony Moris (7.4), Ismael Kandouss (6.9), Christian Burgess (7.0), Koki Machida (6.8), Guillaume François (6.4), Jean Thierry Lazare Amani (6.5), Casper Nielsen (7.1), Teddy Teuma (7.3), Bart Nieuwkoop (6.3), Dante Vanzeir (5.8) and Deniz Undav (6.7).

The home team had on the bench: Lucas Pirard, Damien Marcq, Álex Millán (6.6), Jonas Bager, Ziani Ilyes, Cameron Puertas Castro (6.4), Soulaimane Berradi, Matthew Sorinola and Loic Lapoussin (7.0).

Substitutions

Union Saint-Gilloise made 3 changes: G. Francois for L. Lapoussin (55′), I. Kandouss for A. Millan (70′) and J. Lazare Amani for C. Puertas (71′).

Best player: Anthony Moris​

The player that probably impressed the most for Union Saint-Gilloise was the goalkeeper: Anthony Moris. His rating is 7.40. He performed 4 saves.

Sint-Truiden – Formation

Sint-Truiden started with a 3-4-1-2 line-up (3-4-1-2).

Bernd Hollerbach played with: Daniel Schmidt (7.4), Jorge Teixeira (6.7), Toni Leistner (6.9), Robert Bauer (7.9), Daiki Hashioka (6.5), Mory Konate (7.8), Dimitri Lavalėe (7.2), Aboubakary Koita (7.4), Christian Brüls (7.5), João Klauss (7.1) and Daichi Hayashi (6.9).

These were the players on the bench: Rocco Reitz (6.6), Shinji Kagawa (6.4), Christopher Durkin, Wolke Janssens, Nelson Balongo, Alessandro Russo and Ameen Al-Dakhil (6.4).

Substitutions

Sint-Truiden made 3 changes: J. Klauss for R. Reitz (71′), C. Bruls for S. Kagawa (82′) and J. Teixeira for A. Al Dakhil (83′).

Best player: Robert Bauer​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Sint-Truiden was Robert Bauer even if he didn’t score the decisive goal.

His rating is (7.9) with 22 passes (40% accurate) and 0 key passes. He was won 5 duels out of 8.

Results of the day

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

• Club Brugge – Sporting Charleroi – 2-0
• Genk – Standard Liège – 2-0
• Union Saint-Gilloise – Sint-Truiden – 0-1
• Beerschot-Wilrijk – Kortrijk – 2-1