RAAL La Louvière

Match report

RAAL La Louvière beat Kortrijk 3:0 in the Jupiler Pro League's regular season round six on Saturday. The hosts opened their account through Mustapha Isah Ubandoma and never looked back. By then the visitors had already begun to realise their evening was going badly.

Ubandoma struck in the seventh minute to give the home side an early lead. He added a second seven minutes before the break to double the advantage. The goal changed the shape of the match, though the visitors kept pushing forward.

I watched the whole game and remember the twentieth minute clearly. Kortrijk were passing sideways, trying to find a rhythm that wasn't there. They had the ball but not the intent.

The second goal came in the thirty-seventh minute, another finish from Ubandoma. The visitors created more attacks but struggled to turn possession into chances. And here's the thing — they were drowning the ball without finding a way through.

Kortrijk held 62 per cent possession and made 524 passes. They registered 151 attacks against 73 for the hosts. But shots on target told a different story: six to two. The visitors shot off target six times and hit the woodwork nowhere.

We had given 86 per cent confidence in a home win before kick-off. The prediction came good. The hosts paid for a sloppy opening by taking control, and the visitors never got out of second gear.

The result leaves Kortrijk bottom of the table with zero points from six games. RAAL La Louvière move up to four points and sit in fourteenth place. The draw brought them together early, but this time one side pulled away.

Prepared from match data

Key numbers

Possession, % 38 – 62

Shots on target 6 – 2

Shots off target 8 – 6

Big chances 5 – 1

⚽ 7' Mustapha Isah Ubandoma — Goal ⚽ 37' Mustapha Isah Ubandoma — Goal ⇄ 45' Basile Vroninks — Substitution ⇄ 45' Matyas Kovacs — Substitution ⇄ 45' Suf·Podgoreanu — Substitution ⇄ 45' Rok Storman — Substitution 🟨 45+2' Matyas Kovacs — Yellow card 🟨 50' Thierry Ambrose — Yellow card ⇄ 63' Zsombor Gruber — Substitution ⇄ 66' Mustapha Isah Ubandoma — Substitution ⇄ 66' Wagane Faye — Substitution ⇄ 67' Brecht Dejaegere — Substitution ⇄ 73' Axel Drouhin — Substitution 🟨 75' Anthony Philips — Yellow card ⇄ 82' Marius Courcoul — Substitution 🟨 84' Siad Gourville — Yellow card ⚽ 85' Elias Filet — Goal

Match events

7' 1:0 RAAL La Louvière Goal Mustapha Isah Ubandoma assist: Anas Tajaouart
37' 2:0 RAAL La Louvière Goal Mustapha Isah Ubandoma assist: Shaquil Delos
45' 2:0 Kortrijk Substitution Basile Vroninks off: Shandre Campbell
45' 2:0 RAAL La Louvière Substitution Matyas Kovacs off: Thierry Lutonda
45' 2:0 Kortrijk Substitution Suf·Podgoreanu off: Nayel Mehssatou
45' 2:0 Kortrijk Substitution Rok Storman off: Ken Masui
45+2' 2:0 RAAL La Louvière Yellow card Matyas Kovacs
50' 2:0 Kortrijk Yellow card Thierry Ambrose
63' 2:0 RAAL La Louvière Substitution Zsombor Gruber off: Joël Ito
66' 2:0 RAAL La Louvière Substitution Mustapha Isah Ubandoma off: Elias Filet
66' 2:0 RAAL La Louvière Substitution Wagane Faye off: Siad Gourville
67' 2:0 Kortrijk Substitution Brecht Dejaegere off: Anthony Philips
73' 2:0 Kortrijk Substitution Axel Drouhin off: Jellert Van Landschoot
75' 2:0 Kortrijk Yellow card Anthony Philips
82' 2:0 RAAL La Louvière Substitution Marius Courcoul off: Mame Ndiaga Wade
84' 2:0 RAAL La Louvière Yellow card Siad Gourville
85' 3:0 RAAL La Louvière Goal Elias Filet assist: Marcos Peano

Statistics

38 Possession, % 62

6 Shots on target 2

8 Shots off target 6

5 Big chances 1

73 Attacks 151

0 Corners 4

9 Fouls 10

10 Free kicks 9

3 Offsides 2

2 Yellow cards 2

0 Red cards 0

14 Goal kicks 11

20 Throw-ins 13

All statistics

14/2556% Aerial duels 11/2544%

43 Backward passes 75

3 Blocked shots 2

31 Clearances 27

3/743% Crosses 4/2317%

6/1443% Dribbles 5/1729%

63 Failed passes 68

2 Goalkeeper saves 3

5 Interceptions 7

13 Key passes 8

21/5638% Long passes 30/5357%

54 Passes into the final third 105

144 Passes in the opposition half 318

184 Passes in own half 229

0.35 Shot accuracy 0.20

6 Shots from outside the box 3

11 Shots inside the box 7

15/2463% Tackles 8/1553%

321 Total passes 524

Line-ups

Starting XI
#	Player	number
21	Marcos Hernán Peano	21
4	Wagane Faye	4
18	Shaquil David Delos	18
29	Marius Courcoul	29
33	Patrick Nkoa	33
99	Yllan Okou	99
7	M. Kovac	7
48	Ismaila Cheick Coulibaly	48
78	A. Tadjouari	78
11	Mustafa Isa	11
30	Zsombor Gruber	30

Substitutes
#	Player	number
91	Theo Radle	91
5	Thierry Lutonda	5
22	Siad Gourville	22
25	Djibril Lamego	25
44	Mehdi Boukamir	44
10	Mame Ndiaga Wade	10
23	Singa Joël Ito	23
9	Elias Filet	9
90	Léandro Rousseau	90

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Kortrijk

Starting XI
#	Player	number
1	Patrik Sigurdur Gunnarsson	1
4	Harrison Murray-Campbell	4
21	Axel Drouhin	21
22	Gilles Ruyssen	22
25	Basile Vroninks	25
17	Rok Štorman	17
19	Brecht Dejaegere	19
24	Jamie John Roche	24
7	Suf Podgoreanu	7
10	Goduine Koyalipou	10
68	Thierry Winston Jordan Ambrose	68

Substitutes
#	Player	number
77	T. Alliet	77
5	J. Njungué	5
8	Nayel Rayan Mehssatou Sepúlveda	8
35	Boris Lambert	35
71	Ken Masui	71
11	S. Campbell	11
18	Jellert Van Landschoot	18

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Match prediction: RAAL La Louvière — Kortrijk

Win: RAAL La Louvière

Confidence 86%

Reasoning

РААЛ Лувьер — 16. place, 1 points after 5 games (0 wins, 1 draws, 4 losses)
Кортрейк — 18. place, 0 points after 5 games (0 wins, 5 losses)
РААЛ Лувьер, last 5 games: 0 wins, 1 draws, 4 losses
Кортрейк, last 5 games: 0 wins, 1 draws, 4 losses

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