Last year runner-up Standard Liege have many changes this year.
First the coach from Dominique DOnofrio to Johan Boskamp.
A couple key players left: Goalkeeper Runje, Tchite, Walasiak, Roussel, Moreira, Wamberto, Garbini, Niculae, Negouai.
Standard was able to keep some other key players of last season like Sergio Conceicao , Rapaic, Geraerts and Onyewu.
The players joining the team: Defour, Bouchouari, Dupre, Nuno Coelho, Miguel Areias Lopes, Rogerio Matias, Rodrigo Costa and Jovanovic.
Standard has got some big injury and suspension problems. Onyewu, Conceicao, De Camargo and Bouchouari won't be able to play today.
Lokeren lost a lot of good attacking players since last season. Bance and Bouchouari being the 2 most important. A couple African transfers were made to deal with this problem. Maznov, Tambwe and Traore joined the team. The quality of these players is hard to measure.
Though Standard is last year runner up , but they have many change in team , need times to settle . And the statistics here the last 5 encounters end with draw...
The result can go each way....best bet is to take the home side Lokeren at 0.25 hcp