SPORTING CHARLEROI v EUPEN
Friday 26th August 2016 – Kickoff: 2030hrs
Football – Belgium – Jupiler League Betting Tips
My next pick features the Belgian Jupiler League in the only fixture on Friday night, so hosts Sporting Charleroi have a great chance of moving top of the Belgian top flight if they manage all three points against visitors Eupen.
The venue is the Stade du Pays de Charleroi and Sporting Charleroi remain unbeaten from their first four matches of the new campaign having beaten Waasland-Beveren 1-0 at home and another win by the same scoreline away from home against Mouscron-Peruwelz; they’ve also drawn with Gent at home and Standard Liege away, so they’ve made an impressive start.
Sporting Charleroi are a solid outfit on their home turf as they’re unbeaten in their last eight matches, while this season they hold an early record of 1-1-0 2/1, and they take on newcomers to the league, Eupen here this evening.
Onto Eupen then, and they finished an agonising one point adrift of Proximus League title winners White Star as they were held to a 0-0 draw away at Antwerp on the final day of last season, but Eupen emerged through the play-offs to get promoted to the Jupiler League for this campaign.
Eupen’s early results suggest they may have to contend with a mid-to-bottom half position in the Belgian top flight as they’ve lost two, won once and drawn one, with their win coming against Westerlo in a 2-1 victory away from home.
Overall, I would suggest that Eupen will be good enough to get results at home against the teams situated around them in the division, but they may well struggle away from home against the better sides in the Jupiler League – and Sporting Charleroi have become one of these sides.
Pick: Sporting Charleroi AH-0.25 @ 1.56 Ladbrokes
