Charleroi vs Leuven - prediction, team news, lineups

Charleroi are acceptable to big Leuven astatine the Stade du Pays de Charleroi connected Tuesday successful the penultimate fixture of the Belgian Pro League.

The hosts tin inactive suffice for the Europa League adjacent play if they triumph their last 2 games, portion the visitors person thing but pridefulness to play for successful this fixture.

Match preview

Charleroi travel into this with a accidental to scope the Europa League adjacent season, arsenic they beryllium 4 points down Genk and Standard Liege.

The hosts mislaid past clip retired erstwhile they suffered a 1-0 nonaccomplishment to Westerlo, which has earnestly dented their chances of playing European shot adjacent season.

Prior to this nonaccomplishment they had won 3 connected the bounce to enactment them successful this position, but present they cannot spend a slip-up successful their last 2 fixtures, starting with this game.

Charleroi won the past gathering betwixt the teams, coming retired connected apical 2-0 astatine King Power astatine Den Dreef Stadion successful April.

Leuven travel into this crippled sitting bottommost of the radical with thing to play for successful their last 2 league games.

The visitors won past clip retired erstwhile they bushed Antwerp 3-0 astatine home, but up until that fixture it had been a disastrous fewer weeks for the team.

Prior to that game, they had not won since the last time of the regular play connected March 22, going 7 games without a win.

Leuven are looking to reverse a four-match distant winless streak; the past clip they won a crippled connected the roadworthy was March 14 against Charleroi.

Charleroi Belgian Pro League form:

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Leuven Belgian Pro League form:

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Team News

Charleroi volition beryllium without the services of Massamba Sow and Theo Defourny, arsenic the brace are ruled retired done injury.

Parfait Guiagon volition beryllium cardinal to them if they are to unafraid triumph successful this match, arsenic helium is the club’s apical scorer with 9 goals, and they volition anticipation helium tin adhd to this tally.

Leuven volition not beryllium capable to telephone upon Noe Dussenne, who is unavailable owed to the wounded helium suffered earlier successful the campaign.

Attackers Abduol Traore and Henok Teklab were connected the scoresheet past clip out, and determination volition beryllium anticipation from the visitors that they tin repetition this to gain a 2nd triumph connected the bounce successful the league.

Charleroi imaginable starting lineup:

Kone; Blum, Ousou, Keita, Nzita; Bemier, Camara, Guigon, Titraoui, Van Den Kerkhof; Scheilder

Leuven imaginable starting lineup:

Leysen; Ominami, Pletinckx, Akimoto; Teklab, Verstraete, Schrijvers, Opoku; Maziz, Traore, Vaesen

We say: Charleroi 2-0 Leuven

The hosts are successful hopeless request to support their faint European ambitions alive, and truthful they volition beryllium battling close until the extremity to guarantee this, portion their opponents person small to play for but pridefulness and person struggled for immoderate existent form. Charleroi should get each 3 points successful this fixture.

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