Union Saint-Gilloise vs Real Sociedad — Europa League preview & stats

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Europa League Europa League·

Union Saint-Gilloise

Real Sociedad

Win Probabilities

The chances our model gives each outcome. This is our estimate, not the market's.

Home Win

61%

Draw

19%

Away Win

19%

Both teams score59.0%

Over 2.5 goals67.5%

Context for the match, written from third-party data. Enough to situate the fixture before getting into the numbers.

Form & Context

Union Saint-Gilloise maintained a solid home record with about half of their home games won, supported by a strong attacking performance reflected in their home xG around two. Real Sociedad showed a moderate away win rate near forty percent but conceded more chances, with an average away xG against exceeding two.

Goals

The match featured a high combined xG of over four, indicating active offensive play from both teams. Both sides contributed to the scoring opportunities, and the first half saw early chances that set an energetic pace for the game. The overall goal count surpassed two and a half, with both teams scoring during the match.

Corners

Corner statistics revealed a stark contrast between the teams, with Union averaging one corner per game at home and Real Sociedad averaging ten corners per game away. This disparity highlighted Real Sociedad's frequent attacking pressure from wide areas despite playing away.

Clean Sheets

Defensive vulnerabilities were evident, especially for Real Sociedad on the road, as their average xG conceded was above two, indicating that clean sheets have been historically rare for them during away fixtures.

Union Saint-Gilloise hosted Real Sociedad in a high-tempo Europa League match with notable attacking dynamics.

Chances created, regardless of what they returned. A team can win while scoring less than it should have.

Expected in this match

2.61Union Saint-Gilloise

4.38Total

1.77Real Sociedad

The same number does not mean the same thing in every league. Each team is placed against its own.

League averages: 41% BTTS · 2.65 goals per game, i.e. 1.18 per team

Balanced league

Union Saint-Gilloisevs league avgReal Sociedad

3.00+154%Attack (goals for)League avg 1.18↑ more is better1.00−15%

0.00−100%Defence (goals against)League avg 1.47↓ less is better2.00+36%

0.0%−41 ptsBoth teams scoreLeague avg 40.6%100.0%+59 pts

Based on 76 teams for the league averages; 1 matches played by each of the two teams.

›Understanding this block

What is compared: Each team's profile over the whole season — home and away combined — against its own league's average. This is the only section of the page where both teams are read on the same basis; elsewhere the numbers come from the home or away split.
Why two units: A goal average has no scale of its own: “1.59 goals” says nothing until you know what the league does, so the gap is given in relative terms (“+23%”). A percentage already has one: the gap between 73% and 58% is given in points (“+15 pts”), never in relative terms — that would be a percentage of a percentage.
What the sign means: A “+” only means “above the league average”. It is not always favourable: above on goals scored is an asset, above on goals conceded is not. Those two rows carry the matching note. The others — corners, cards, both teams to score — describe a style of play, not a quality: they carry none.
The reference: Under each label, “League avg” is the competition's average per team — the second figure in the block header. The first counts the goals of both teams together: that is why it is roughly twice as large.
The colours: Cyan is the home team, amber the away team — the two names at the top of the block already carry those tints. They say nothing about whether a number is good.

Some of the data and text on this page comes from a third-party source, not from our model. Not our probabilities, and not a result prediction.

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