📏 Form Guide

Antwerp

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Antwerp head into this game following on from a 0-0 Pro League Play Offs drawn game vs KRC Genk.

In that game, Antwerp managed 37% possession and 13 shots on goal with 1 on target. For their opponents, Genk got 34 attempts at goal with 13 on target.

It has not been often in recent games where Antwerp haven’t conceded. In fact, Antwerp have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 12 goals on the way. Such a pattern won’t necessarily be continued into this match, though.

KVC Westerlo

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After a losing effort in their last game against Standard Liège in Pro League Play Offs competition, KVC Westerlo and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, KVC Westerlo had 60% possession and 24 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for KVC Westerlo was Dogucan Haspolat (12'). Standard Liege got 12 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Timothé Nkada (18') and Rafiki Saïd (41') scored for Standard Liège.

Showing their partiality to high-scoring matches, goals have been celebrated 21 times in the previous six games in which KVC Westerlo have sent out their troops, making it an average of 3.5 goals for each meeting. Opposition teams have managed 12 of those goals.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 23/12/2023 shows us that Antwerp have won 3 of these games and KVC Westerlo 2, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 22 in all at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

The previous league contest between these clubs was Pro League Play Offs match day 35 on 25/04/2026 when it finished KVC Westerlo 2-4 Antwerp.

That time, KVC Westerlo had 35% possession and 10 shots at goal with 4 on target. Goals were scored by Isa Sakamoto (58') and Shunsuke Saito (87').

Antwerp got 20 attempts at goal with 12 on target. Vincent Janssen (25', 28'), Christopher Scott (44') and Gyrano Kerk (60') scored.

The match was refereed by Nicolas Laforge.

📰 Team News: Antwerp

Vincent Janssen (minor knock), Zeno Van Den Bosch (minor knock), Youssef Hamdaoui (minor knock) and Björn Engels (Achilles heel problems) won’t be playing for Antwerp gaffer Joseph Oosting.

We are thinking that The Great Old may well employ a 3-4-2-1 system for this one, utilising T. Brandon Nozawa, Yuto Tsunashima, Jules Ahoka, Rein Van Helden, Thibo Somers, Mauricio Benitez, Christopher Scott, Daam Foulon, Geoffry Hairemans, Xander Dierckx and Gerard Vandeplas.

📰 Team News: KVC Westerlo

Out of a mainly full-strength group of players, there’s just a single fitness worry for the KVC Westerlo manager Issame Charaï to be concerned with. Eliot Bujupi (Knee injury) won’t be in action.

We believe De Kempeneers will likely make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup, settling for Andreas Jungdal, Bryan Reynolds, Emin Bayram, Seiji Kimura, Lucas Mbamba, Dogucan Haspolat, Reda Laalaoui, A. Sayyadmanesh, Isa Sakamoto, Josimar Alcócer and Nacho Ferri.

💭 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that KVC Westerlo have the ability to score against this Antwerp team, however that possibly won’t quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

We are anticipating a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning score for Antwerp at the end of the 90 minutes. It’s a very tough call.

Andre Moura, 01:02 23/05/2026