In this 11th week match, on Sunday Oct 9th, Sporting Charleroi will play host to Standard Liège in a meeting of these two evenly matched Pro League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 12 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. Sporting Charleroi sits at 8th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Anderlecht. Ryota Morioka struck first for Sporting Charleroi in the 65th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster At the end of 90 a dissapointed Anderlecht couldn’t manage to score, and Sporting Charleroi took the shutout win. Sporting Charleroi is looking for direction having earned 15 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, Standard Liège recorded a 0-2 loss against RFC Seraing. Moustapha Mbow scored the first goal for RFC Seraing in the 9th minute, then Morgan Poaty added another in the 54th minute In the end, Standard Liège was frustrated by RFC Seraing’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. RFC Seraing ended the match with the shutout victory. Standard Liège is looking for direction having 5 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Sporting Charleroi won the head to head battle with 1 win and 1 draw.
Both Denis Drăguş and Philip Zinckernagel have been the hottest scorers for Standard Liège in the last five each having scored 2 goals each. Ryota Morioka has been the most prolific scorer on Sporting Charleroi in the last five matches with three goals.