Club Brugge on top, with Nicolò Tresoldi our likeliest to test the keeper.
Our model gives Standard Liege 22%, the draw 21% and Club Brugge 57%, so Club Brugge start as favourites. Our predicted score is Standard Liege 1–2 Club Brugge (9%), though no one exact score is likely on its own. Standard Liege are expected to score 1.3 goals and Club Brugge 2.2, 3.5 between them. Both teams scoring is 65% and three or more goals is 69%.
Of their last five meetings on our records, Standard Liege have won two, Club Brugge three. When they last met, it finished Club Brugge 3–0 Standard Liège, in Feb 2026. Nicolò Tresoldi is the player we expect to shoot most: 3.2 shots and 1.3 on target for Club Brugge, if they start. For cards, Freddie Potts (Club Brugge) has been booked once every 2 games in 2026/27, more often than anyone else here.
Standard Liege come in with one win, one draw and four defeats in their last six. Club Brugge have five wins, one draw and no defeats over the same run. On shots, our forecast is 12.2 for Standard Liege and 18.0 for Club Brugge, with 4.0 and 5.8 on target, and corners at 4.3 to 6.2. So we expect Club Brugge to do more of the shooting. For Bawler's pick we have gone with Club Brugge or Draw, Club Brugge Over 13.5 Shots and Nicolò Tresoldi 1+ Shot on Target. The chance all three land is 48% on our numbers, so the fair price is 11/10, or 2.07.
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Numbers are if they start — lineups land about an hour before kickoff.
The grey number is their average over the last six.
How likely each side is to reach these totals before half-time.
At half-time we update each side’s chance of scoring in the second half from what the first half showed.
Club Brugge or draw is 78% now. Here is what it would become at half-time:
Based on the half-time score alone — team news is not included.
Shots we expect from each player if they start — lineups land about an hour before kickoff. From 2025/26–2026/27, all club matches.
1 in 3 = booked about once every three games last time out — a record, not a forecast. Players with fewer minutes are pulled toward the league average, so a small sample never reads as a certainty.
Bawler's model rates this match: Club Brugge are favoured (57% win probability vs 22% for Standard Liege, 21% draw). The model uses each side’s expected goals, recent form and the strength of the opposition.
Bawler's predicted score is Standard Liege 1-2 Club Brugge: the most likely score if Club Brugge win, which is the likeliest result (57%). Our model puts that exact score at 9.4%. Expected total goals: 3.5.
Bawler estimates each side's expected goals from its results and the quality of its chances, adjusted for the strength of the opposition and for home advantage, then works out the chance of every scoreline to get win, draw and both-teams-to-score probabilities. Team news and lineups are not built into these numbers. For this match that gives Standard Liege 22%, the draw 21% and Club Brugge 57%. Every prediction is published before kickoff and settled afterwards.
Probably — Bawler's model gives both teams scoring a 65% chance. That is based on Standard Liege expecting 1.32 goals and Club Brugge 2.22.
Bawler's model expects 3.5 goals in total. It leans towards three or more goals: over 2.5 goals is 69%.
Clubs usually name their line-ups about an hour before kickoff.
Club Brugge or Draw (79%), Club Brugge Over 13.5 Shots (79%), Nicolò Tresoldi 1+ Shot on Target (68%). Our model gives all 3 landing together a 48% chance, a fair price of 11/10 (2.07). 18+, please gamble responsibly.