📏 Form Guide

Antwerp

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Antwerp enter this game following a 0-0 Pro League Play Offs draw versus KRC Genk.

In that game, Antwerp managed 37% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. Genk got 34 shots on 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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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Standard Liège in Pro League Play Offs competition, KVC Westerlo and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, KVC Westerlo had 60% possession and 24 shots on goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for KVC Westerlo was Dogucan Haspolat (12'). For their opponents, Standard Liege got 12 attempts on goal with 6 of them 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 at their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 23/12/2023 tells us that Antwerp have won 3 of them & KVC Westerlo 2, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 22 in total at an average of 3.67 goals per meeting.

The last league meeting between the two was Pro League Play Offs match day 35 on 25/04/2026 and the score finished KVC Westerlo 2-4 Antwerp.

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

On the other side, Antwerp got 20 shots 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 able to feature for Antwerp manager Joseph Oosting.

It looks as if The Great Old will probably kick off with a 3-4-2-1 system for this one, handing starts to 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

Thanks to a mainly full-strength group of players, there is just the sole fitness issue for the KVC Westerlo boss Issame Charaï to be concerned with. Eliot Bujupi (Knee injury) misses out for this game.

It’s our belief that De Kempeneers seem most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting 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, 04:02 23/05/2026