Match Report
1 points and 695 places separated them: Genk 78th with 4, Lierse 773rd with 3. On recent form Lierse sat only 2290th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 773rd overall. Per game in the league, Genk were scoring 1 and conceding 0.5, Lierse 0.5 and 1.67, against a competition average of 1.64 goals per team per game.
Lierse had gone 5 games without a win.
GioScore's database holds 12 meetings between the two: 8 for Genk, 1 for Lierse and 3 drawn, at 2.92 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 42% of those meetings.
The match was played at Luminus Arena (capacity 24,956). On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 2-0.