La Louvière host Zulte-Waregem in Belgium’s Pro League on October 24, 2026, with kick-off scheduled for 18:45 local time at Stade du Tivoli. The hosts are 16th in the league rankings, while the visitors are eighth, but their recent results tell a more complicated story. La Louvière have won three of their last five matches and arrive after a 4-0 victory over RFC Liège. Zulte-Waregem also won on October 17, beating RFC Seraing 3-0, although that result followed a five-match stretch containing four defeats. With both teams coming off emphatic wins and La Louvière’s matches regularly featuring goals, this Pro League preview centres on whether the hosts’ improved recent form can carry into their league campaign.

La Louvière Recent Form and Key Stats

La Louvière have taken three wins from their last five matches, losing the other two. Across that span, they have averaged 2.4 goals scored and 1.2 conceded per match. Their 4-0 win over RFC Liège on October 17 was the latest result in that run, offering an encouraging contrast to their Pro League record.

In the league, La Louvière have recorded one win, one draw and six defeats. They average 1.0 goal scored and 2.3 conceded per match in the competition, a substantial difference from their attacking output across the most recent five games. Those figures make their current form particularly interesting: the hosts have been scoring more freely of late, but their league results show why another positive performance would matter.

Goals have been a persistent feature of their fixtures. At least two total goals have been scored in each of La Louvière’s last 14 matches, including their last 13 in the Pro League. Their last 10 matches have also each contained at least one second-half goal. These are totals for the matches as a whole, rather than goals scored solely by La Louvière, but they underline how rarely their recent games have remained low-scoring. There is an early-game concern for the hosts, too: they have been behind at half-time in eight of their last 13 Pro League matches.

Zulte-Waregem Recent Form and Key Stats

Zulte-Waregem travel to Stade du Tivoli after a 3-0 win against RFC Seraing on October 17. It was a welcome result within a difficult recent sequence: their last five matches have produced one win and four defeats, with averages of 0.8 goals scored and 1.6 conceded. The scoreline against RFC Seraing therefore stands apart from their broader five-game scoring average.

The visitors’ Pro League record is more balanced than that short run suggests. They have three wins, two draws and three defeats in the competition, scoring an average of 1.3 goals and conceding 1.1 per match. They also sit eight places above La Louvière in the supplied league rankings. Yet a higher ranking does not erase their recent results, particularly with four losses in five matches.

Starts to league games have been another issue for Zulte-Waregem: they have been behind at half-time in each of their last three Pro League matches. La Louvière have also frequently trailed at the interval in the competition, leaving both sides with an early-match trend to address. For Zulte-Waregem, the challenge is to build on their three-goal win while improving on the form that preceded it.

La Louvière vs Zulte-Waregem Match Analysis

The contrast between recent form and league standing gives this fixture its central question. La Louvière have three wins in five and the stronger recent scoring average, but only one win in eight Pro League matches. Zulte-Waregem are eighth and have the better league record, yet have lost four of their last five. The supplied win probabilities reflect that balance: 38% for La Louvière, 26% for a draw and 36% for Zulte-Waregem. None of those figures points to a clear favourite.

Past meetings offer the visitors another positive reference point. From La Louvière’s perspective, the supplied head-to-head summary reads zero wins, three draws and two defeats, with averages of 0.4 goals scored and 1.6 conceded. The most recent meeting, on April 26, 2026, finished 4-0. Those results sit alongside a different recent picture for the hosts, who have averaged 2.4 goals across their last five matches. Whether they can reproduce that output against Zulte-Waregem is one of the key questions on matchday.

The goals data provides the clearest theme for this preview. La Louvière’s run of 14 consecutive matches with at least two total goals includes 13 straight Pro League games, while their league matches have featured averages of 1.0 goal scored and 2.3 conceded by the hosts. Zulte-Waregem’s recent five-game averages, meanwhile, amount to 0.8 scored and 1.6 conceded. The visitors’ 3-0 win and La Louvière’s 4-0 victory add fresh examples of matches with three or more goals, even if neither result alone guarantees a repeat. With both teams seeking to carry those wins forward, the longer scoring trends make the total-goals market a natural focus.

La Louvière vs Zulte-Waregem prediction from BetMines: Over 2.5 goals with 53% probability.