Union St. Gilloise vs Anderlecht — Jupiler Pro League: stats, lineups & analysis
Match Events
- 29′Union St. Gilloise, yellow card:Foul
- 38′Union St. Gilloise, goal:1–0assist
- 45′Union St. Gilloise, goal:2–0assist
- 45+4′Anderlecht, yellow card:Argument
- Half-time2 – 0
- 56′Anderlecht, substitution:off
- 62′Anderlecht, yellow card:Foul
- 70′Union St. Gilloise, substitution:off
- 70′Anderlecht, substitution:off
- 70′Union St. Gilloise, substitution:off
- 70′Anderlecht, substitution:off
- 78′Union St. Gilloise, yellow card:Foul
- 79′Anderlecht, substitution:off
- 79′Anderlecht, substitution:off
- 80′Union St. Gilloise, substitution:off
- 81′Union St. Gilloise, goal:3–0assist
- 87′Union St. Gilloise, substitution:off
- 87′Union St. Gilloise, substitution:off
- Full-time3 – 0
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Union St. Gilloise
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Match report
Union St. Gilloise brush aside Anderlecht with first-half surge
Union St. Gilloise beat Anderlecht 3-0 in a Jupiler Pro League round four fixture at Stade Joseph Marien, moving into fifth place in the process. The result took David Hubert's side to seven points from three games, while Vitor Bruno's Anderlecht stayed on three points in 11th.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
The hosts settled the contest before the break. Besfort Zeneli opened the scoring in the 38th minute, finishing off a Guilherme Henriques da Silva Carvalho assist, and Union doubled their lead three minutes later when M. Biondic converted a Zeneli assist to make it 2-0 at half-time. Raul Florucz added a third in the 81st minute, teed up by Rob Schoofs, to complete the scoring.
Union carried the greater threat throughout despite seeing less of the ball, managing 15 shots to Anderlecht's 12 and putting seven on target against the visitors' two. They finished with 46 percent possession but were the sharper side in front of goal, a gulf reflected in the scoreline rather than in the underlying territory of the match.
Zeneli scored once and set up Biondic's goal, earning a rating of 8.6 as the outstanding contributor in Union's win.
Union's seven shots on target compared with just two for Anderlecht underlined their clinical edge in front of goal.
Union St. Gilloise beat Anderlecht 3–0 (half-time 2–0).
Union St. Gilloise met Anderlecht in the Jupiler Pro League (Regular Season - 4). Kick-off was Sunday, 30 August 2026, 16:30 UTC at Stade Joseph Marien. Referee: Lawrence Visser.
Team pages: Union St. Gilloise · Anderlecht · Jupiler Pro League
Key moments
- 38' Goal: Besfort Zeneli (assist: Guilherme Smith) — 1–0
- 45' Goal: Mateo Biondic (assist: Besfort Zeneli) — 2–0
- 81' Goal: Raul Florucz (assist: Rob Schoofs) — 3–0
Starting line-ups
Union St. Gilloise (3-4-3)
Anderlecht (4-4-2)
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Union St. Gilloise 66%, the draw 20%, Anderlecht 14%. It finished Union St. Gilloise 3–0 Anderlecht.
Union St. Gilloise's rating gap decides it — Union St. Gilloise are clearly the stronger side on our strength rating, and that is most of Union St. Gilloise's 66%. The draw at 20% is about what a gap this size usually leaves.
Why Union St. Gilloise at 66%?
Union St. Gilloise sit 216 points higher on our strength rating — 1940 to 1724. Sides with a 200–300-point rating edge at home won 67.0% of 5,965 such games. The 300 most similar past games finished 68–18–14.
Why only 66%?
Both sides are inside their first six league games — home wins land softer this early in the season, so this trims Union St. Gilloise's column. Across 10,823 opening-stretch games since 2010, home sides won 42.8% where the rating map expected 44.9%, with draws up 2.0 — negative in every season since 2018.
Why is the draw only 20%?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 19.6%. These teams' recent games average 3.3 goals — a high-scoring environment. Games in that environment drew 22.8% of 17,046. Early-season fixtures add 2.0 points to the draw. The goals environment takes 1.7 points off the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Union St. Gilloise scored +0.60 goals per game beyond chance-quality lately — hot streaks like that have cooled off. Measured across 2,810 games at this rating gap, hot-finishing sides won 42.1% vs 42.9% class-expected — inside the noise band, so it scores 0 until the receipt clears its evidence bar. Anderlecht have gained 67 strength-rating points over their last 10 games. Momentum is measured but not yet proven: climbing sides won 41.4% of 12,267 such games vs 40.7% class-expected — inside the noise band, so it stays at 0 points until the receipt clears its evidence bar. The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
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About this match
On this page: the Union St. Gilloise vs Anderlecht final score and result, who scored, starting lineups, match stats and the full match report from this Jupiler Pro League fixture.
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