Standard Liege vs Antwerp — Belgian Pro League result and pre-match forecast, Saturday, 5 September 2026

Belgian Pro League·Saturday, 5 September 2026

Metis pre-match forecast

Independent model — no market price

Frozen as published · 10.8 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Standard Liege

39%

pick · result

Draw

28%

Antwerp

34%

Final score

1–0

Top pick landed

Metis gave a Standard Liege win 38.8% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Standard Liege win. Expected goals 1.42–1.30 against 1–0 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals51%1 scored
Both teams score56%no
Standard Liege clean sheet27%yes
Antwerp clean sheet24%no
Standard Liege score 2+41%no
Antwerp score 2+37%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.2433
1X2 Brier score0.5628
Probability on the result38.8%

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 (13.1%), 2–1 (8.6%), 1–0 (8.4%). It finished 1–0 — one of them.

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Standard Liege

8 AugHvs Cercle Brugge2–2D
16 AugAvs Mechelen3–3D
21 AugHvs RAAL La Louviere2–0W
29 AugAvs Oud-Heverlee Leuven2–1W
5 SeptHvs Antwerp1–0W

Antwerp

9 AugHvs Beveren2–1W
15 AugAvs Kortrijk3–0W
22 AugHvs Genk4–4D
30 AugHvs St Truiden1–4L
5 SeptAvs Standard Liege0–1L

Head to head

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

Model context

StatStandard Liege
(Home · 3 matches)
Antwerp
(Away · 3 matches)
BTTS rate33.3%33.3%
Over 2.5 rate33.3%66.7%
Clean sheet66.7%33.3%
Avg goals2.332.67

Home stats use Standard Liege's home record; away stats use Antwerp'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.