DomainJava.com – Royal Antwerp vs Racing Genk prediction in the Belgium Pro League match, First Division A match at Bosuilstadion on Thursday between hosts Antwerp and Genk.
Antwerp are hoping to win again after a 1-3 win over Dender in First Division A.
In that match, Antwerp controlled the ball 55% and made 11 goal attempts, 3 of which were on target. Goal scorer for Antwerp was Vincent Janssen (60′). On the other hand, Dender made 4 goal attempts, 1 of which was on target. Kobe Cools (6th own goal), Aurélien Scheidler (56′) and Bryan Goncalves (72nd own goal) scored for Dender.
Antwerp have struggled to keep their net clean of late, but they have also managed to score goals themselves. Looking at their last 6 matches, Antwerp conceded in 5 matches and managed to score goals in 5 of those matches. However, such a pattern cannot be guaranteed to continue into the next match.
Genk come into this game on the back of a 2-0 win in First Division A by beating RSC Anderlecht in their last game.
In that match, KRC Genk controlled the ball 52% and made 17 attempts on goal with 5 of them being on target. For KRC Genk, the goal scorers were Tolu Arokodare (29′) and Konstantinos Karetsas (72′). Anderlecht fired 7 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.
In their last six matches, Thorsten Fink's KRC Genk have scored a total of 12 goals, bringing the average goals scored per match to 2.
Coming into this match, KRC Genk had not won at home in the last 3 matches in the league.
A check of their previous head-to-head meetings starting on 04/06/2023 shows that Antwerp has won 1 of these matches and Genk 4, with the number of drawn matches reaching 1.
16 goals came between them during the clash, with 5 goals for The Great Old and 11 goals coming from Blauw-Wit. That's an average goals per game figure of 2.67.
The previous league encounter between these clubs was First Division A match day 13 on 03/11/2024 when the match ended with the score 2-0 to KRC Genk Antwerp.
On that day, KRC Genk managed to control the ball 60% of the time and fired 16 shots at goal, 7 of which were on target. Their only player to score was Patrik Hrošovský (45′, 54′).
For their opponents, Antwerp had 7 attempts on goal with 0 of them on target.
The referee was Lothar D'hondt.
Björn Engels (Achilles heel problem), Michel-Ange Balikwisha (muscle injury), Christopher Scott (knee injury) and Mahamadou Doumbia (back injury) are unavailable for Antwerp coach Jonas De Roeck.
Most likely, The Great Old will opt for a 4-2-3-1 system in a match featuring Senne Lammens, Kobe Corbanie, Toby Alderweireld, Zeno Van Den Bosch, Jelle Bataille, Denis Odoi, Jairo Riedewald, Anthony Valencia, Tjaronn Chery, Gyrano Kerk and Vincent Janssen.
Genk manager Thorsten Fink has some player fitness issues at the moment. Thomas Claes (minor injury) and Yira Sor (muscle injury) are unable to play.
From our point of view, Blauw-Wit looks like they will use a 4-2-3-1 line-up using H. van Crombrugge, Zakaria El Ouahdi, Carlos Cuesta, Matte Smets, Joris Kayembe Ditu, I. Sory Bangoura, Bryan Heynen, Jarne Steuckers, K. Karetsas, C. Bonsu Baah, and Tolu Arokodare.
(source: Sportsmole)
Prediction
We tend to think that KRC Genk and Antwerp should be able to score more than one goal here although it is difficult to determine a clear winner.
Let's see how this match goes, but it looks like this match could go for goals and potentially a draw. With that in mind, we predict that this will be a very entertaining matchup with a draw at the end of the game.
Royal Antwerp vs Racing Genk Score Prediction: 1-1
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