Football Bet of the Day: Lokeren to get lucky in Liege

Standard Liege v Lokeren
Friday 19:30

Newcastle Jets turned on the after-burners in Australia this morning. A couple of late-ish goals gave them a 3-1 win over Melbourne City that contained far too much excitement for our needs. A similar scoreline would be much more welcome in Belgium this evening.

Lokeren are five points adrift at the bottom of the First Division table and have built a dismal W0-D2-L10 away record. However, they have scored on each of their last three trips to Standard Liege and we like the even money about BTTS tonight.

Lokeren are predictably without a clean sheet on the road this term. At the other end, however - and in defiance of that wretched record - they have scored themselves in 10/12 away games.

Standard Liege are up to fourth in the table, having won each of their last five at Stade Maurice Dufrasne. However, the Reds have conceded in 4/5 on that run and 9/12 since the beginning of the season. They deserve to be heavy favourites for this one, but we fancy their defence will creak at some point.