Jupiler Pro League · Belgium · Regular Season - 1

KVC Westerlo–Union St. Gilloise

1–5

HT 1–1

Kick-off: Saturday, 8 August 2026 at 18:45
Status: Match Finished
Venue: Het Kuipje, Westerlo

What the model said, and what happened

Prediction correct

This verdict goes into the public record unchanged; we do not filter out the ones we get wrong. The model's track record

Goals and red cards

13'KVC WesterloNorman Bassette (assist: I. Sakamoto)
28'Union St. GilloiseP. David (assist: B. Zeneli)
57'Union St. GilloiseR. Florucz (assist: P. David)
64'Union St. GilloiseR. Mofokeng (assist: R. Schoofs)
81'Union St. GilloiseGuilherme Henriques da Silva Carvalho (assist: M. Fuseini)
84'Union St. Gilloise

Match statistics

Match statistics
KVC Westerlo		Union St. Gilloise
12	Shots	19
3	Shots on target	10
8	Shots inside the box	15
4	Goalkeeper saves	2
4	Corners	5
0	Offsides	4
55%	Possession	45%
532	Passes	435
438	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Expected goals before kick-off: KVC Westerlo 1.03 · Union St. Gilloise 1.51. On the pitch: 1-5.
Shots KVC Westerlo 12 · Union St. Gilloise 19; on target 3 and 10.
KVC Westerlo kept the ball more (55%).

Referee

Bert Put, Belgium→

4.40

yellows per match

0.00

reds per match

matches of data

5 matches is a small sample — these averages are noisy and should not be read as a tendency.

Model prediction

Why this prediction?

The model puts the most likely outcome at 47.8%: “Union St. Gilloise to win”. Second comes “a draw” at 27.8%.
Behind that distribution are the expected goals: 1.03 for KVC Westerlo, 1.51 for Union St. Gilloise.
The highest double chance value is 75.6% (X2 — draw or Union St. Gilloise win).
These values were computed from 1,128 past matches.

This is a prediction, not a guarantee; a probability is not a certainty.

These sentences are built by a fixed template; every number in them comes straight from the model's computation, none invented while the text was written.

KVC Westerlo to win24.4%

Draw27.8%

Union St. Gilloise to win47.8%

When the model has said 45–50% in the past, 2,196 of 4,685 predictions were correct (46.9%). Accuracy record →

12	Fouls	8

1	Yellow cards	2

0	Red cards	0

First half

Actual: 1–1

KVC Westerlo lead at half-time14.9%

Level at half-time40.2%

Union St. Gilloise lead at half-time45.0%

First-half double chance

1X — KVC Westerlo ahead or level55.0%

12 — not level at half-time59.8%

X2 — level or Union St. Gilloise ahead85.1%

These values are not a fraction of the full-match prediction; they come from a separate model trained on the first-half scores of 1128 matches. Its edge over the base rate is markedly smaller than the full-match model's — the measured figure is on the accuracy record. Read them more cautiously. First-half goal markets are not published because they failed to beat the base rate.

Expected fouls and corners

Fouls

KVC Westerlo: at least 9Actual: 12
Union St. Gilloise: at least 12Actual: 8

Corners

KVC Westerlo: at least 4Actual: 4
Union St. Gilloise: at least 4Actual: 5

These figures are set to hold in at least 60% of matches; in the rest the count comes in below them. No upper bound is stated — we make no "at most" claim. Yellow cards were measured and are not published: there our model did not beat the historical average.

What these probabilities rest on

Expected goals comes out of a team's attack weighed against its opponent's defence. A strong attack is damped when it meets a strong defence — which is why comparing the ratings on their own is misleading.

How many goals KVC Westerlo score1.03

Attack: KVC Westerlo score close to the league average.

Opponent's defence: Union St. Gilloise concede 38% below the league average — a defence that seriously brakes even a strong attack.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 1.03 goals (including home advantage).

How many goals Union St. Gilloise score1.51

Attack: Union St. Gilloise score close to the league average.

Opponent's defence: KVC Westerlo's defence is close to the league average (1.04×), so it doesn't move the expectation much.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 1.51 goals (including the away penalty).

Most likely scorelines

1–114.1%0–111.2%1–210.2%

A single scoreline is always less likely than an outcome: “home win” is the sum of 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 and dozens more. So the most likely single score can be a draw while the most likely outcome is a home win; the two do not contradict each other.

Week 1 of the season. This prediction was computed from previous seasons. Summer transfers, budget changes and squad rebuilds aren't in the ratings yet — the model can only see that a team has been rebuilt once new results come in.

We measured this and we're not hiding it: in the opening week of past seasons the model came in 3.3 points below the accuracy it claimed (n=220) — for the rest of the season it beats its own claim. The tendency points this way, though it is not proof on its own: in the opening week it slightly over-calls home wins (said 42.7%, got 39.5%) and slightly under-calls draws (said 26.1%, got 28.2%).

This sample is small and not statistically established, which is why we do not correct the model for it. The correction we tried (pulling probabilities toward the league average) didn't win on holdout, so it wasn't added. Read opening-week predictions with a little more caution.