Beerschot Wilrijk vs Anderlecht Prediction

Two very different runs of form

Anderlecht's away sample covers 20 games across the league and Europa League, with 13 wins, three draws and four defeats. That sounds solid, but look closer and the away trips have been patchy: defeats at Union St. Gilloise, twice against Kairat Almaty and at PAOK, alongside a Europa League loss to Lyon. When they're good they're very good, scoring freely, but the away form isn't as bulletproof as the overall record suggests.

Beerschot Wilrijk: 20 completed matches; Anderlecht: 20 completed matches.

Beerschot Wilrijk

20 matches

Win

65% 13 / 20

Draw

15% 3 / 20

Loss

20% 4 / 20

Scored

50

Conceded

28

Difference

+22

Anderlecht

20 matches

Win

70% 14 / 20

Draw

10% 2 / 20

Loss

20% 4 / 20

Scored

33

Conceded

16

Difference

+17

Beerschot's home form is built almost entirely in the Challenger Pro League, where they've also gone 13-3-4 with 46 goals scored in 20 matches. That's a serious scoring rate for the second tier. They were even involved in a cup tie just days before this data was pulled, winning 5-3 away at Crossing Schaerbeek, so goals have followed them into this competition too.

Anderlecht's away results away from home have been shakier than their overall win tally implies, and Beerschot arrive scoring heavily.

A head-to-head that isn't as one-sided as it looks

Across eight recorded meetings since 2019, Anderlecht have generally had the upper hand, including a 7-0 league win back in 2021. But the most recent meetings tell a different story: Beerschot won the last cup tie between these two, 1-0 at home in January 2025, and the two league games either side of that were both tight, one-goal affairs.

So while the long-term record leans towards Anderlecht, the recent trend, and specifically the last cup encounter, actually favours Beerschot on their own patch.

The most recent cup meeting between these sides went to Beerschot, not Anderlecht.

Could this be another cup upset?

There's a clear gap in level between a Jupiler Pro League side and a Challenger Pro League one, but cup football doesn't always respect that gap, and this fixture has already shown as much. Beerschot score goals for fun at home and have form of beating Anderlecht in exactly this competition before.

Anderlecht's away form, meanwhile, has wobbled against tougher opposition this season, even if the overall numbers look decent. Put a high-scoring home side with recent cup pedigree against an away team that's leaked goals in some of its bigger away tests, and this has the ingredients for a tighter contest than the tier difference suggests.