RAAL La Louviere vs Mechelen — Belgian Pro League result and pre-match forecast, Saturday, 29 August 2026

Belgian Pro League·Saturday, 29 August 2026

Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · under an hour before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

RAAL La Louviere

38%

top pick

Draw

30%

result

Mechelen

32%

Final score

2–2

Top pick missed

Metis gave the draw 30.0% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a RAAL La Louviere win. Expected goals 1.36–1.23 against 2–2 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals48%4 scored
Both teams score54%yes
RAAL La Louviere clean sheet29%no
Mechelen clean sheet25%no
RAAL La Louviere score 2+39%yes
Mechelen score 2+35%yes

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.1237
1X2 Brier score0.7374
Probability on the result30.0%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–1 (14.3%), 1–0 (9.1%), 0–0 (8.9%). It finished 2–2.

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RAAL La Louviere

9 AugAvs Anderlecht1–2L
16 AugHvs Gent1–2L
21 AugAvs Standard Liege0–2L
29 AugHvs Mechelen2–2D
5 SeptAvs St Truiden0–4L

Mechelen

9 AugAvs Gent0–2L
16 AugHvs Standard Liege3–3D
22 AugAvs Charleroi0–2L
29 AugAvs RAAL La Louviere2–2D
5 SeptHvs Westerlo0–4L

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatRAAL La Louviere
(Home · 3 matches)
Mechelen
(Away · 4 matches)
BTTS rate66.7%25.0%
Over 2.5 rate100.0%25.0%
Clean sheet33.3%25.0%
Avg goals3.332.00

Home stats use RAAL La Louviere's home record; away stats use Mechelen's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.