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UEFA U-21 Championship Qualifying 2025 - Round 7 - Group 2

Tony Bezzina Stadium - Paola - Malta

October 13, 2023

Malta U-21

Malta

0 - 2

Belgium U-21

Belgium

75'

Kazeem OlaigbeAssist by Tuur Rommens

90'

Arne Engels

logo Malta MAL

46' - Substitution Ignace Van der Bremptis substituted by Hugo Siquet

62' - Substitution Luca Oyenis substituted by Youssuf Sylla photo Kazeem Olaigbe

62' - Substitution Lucas Stassinis substituted by Kazeem Olaigbe

70' - Yellow card Gianluca Sciberras70

73' - Substitution Andrea Zammitis substituted by Alfie Bridgman73

74' - Substitution Gianluca Sciberrasis substituted by Daniel Letherby74

75' - Goal Kazeem Olaigbe

77' - Substitution Eliot Matazois substituted by Mario Stroeykens

78' - Substitution Mattia Veseljiis substituted by Jake Engerer photo Nikolai Micallef

78' - Substitution Karl Mohnaniis substituted by Nikolai Micallef78

84' - Substitution Malick Fofanais substituted by Samuel Mbangula

87' - Substitution Andy Borgis substituted by Jamie Carbone87

90' - Goal Arne Engels

94' - Yellow card Nikolai Micallef94

logo Belgium BEL

Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Malta U-21

0 - 2

Belgium U-21

Malta U-21 Belgium U-21

Team line-ups

Malta U-21

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

10Zammit73

Andrea Zammit

Malta

B.date05/04/2003

Age20 years

positionForward

7Veselji78

Mattia Veselji

Malta

B.date14/03/2002

Age21 years

positionDefender

18Borg87

Andy Borg

Malta

B.date27/06/2004

Age19 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

20Bondin

Kurt Bondin

Malta

B.date03/06/2002

Age21 years

positionDefender

17Sciberras7470

Gianluca Sciberras

Malta

B.date02/08/2002

Age21 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

11Garzia

Aleandro Garzia

Malta

B.date21/03/2002

Age21 years

positionDefender

6Mohnani78

Karl Mohnani

Malta

B.date10/02/2002

Age21 years

positionMidfield

3Spiteri

Owen Spiteri

Malta

B.date02/11/2002

Age20 years

positionMidfield

4Vassallo

Jake Vassallo

Malta

B.date21/06/2004

Age19 years

positionCentral defender

5M. Ellul

Matthew Ellul

Malta

B.date23/05/2002

Age21 years

positionDefender

12Sacco

Hugo Sacco

Malta

B.date12/01/2004

Age19 years

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	Hugo Sacco		19	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Mattia Veselji	78	21	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	D	Aleandro Garzia		21	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Kurt Bondin		21	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Matthew Ellul		21	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Jake Vassallo		19	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Karl Mohnani	78	21	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Andy Borg	87	19	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Owen Spiteri		20	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Gianluca Sciberras	7470	21	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Andrea Zammit	73	20	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

20.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Belgium U-21

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

9Stassin62

Lucas Stassin

Belgium

B.date29/11/2004

Age18 years

positionForward

11Oyen62

Luca Oyen

Belgium

B.date14/03/2003

Age20 years

H1m73

positionOffensive Midfielder

7Fofana84

Malick Fofana

Belgium

B.date31/03/2005

Age18 years

positionLeft Winger

10Matazo77

Eliot Matazo

Belgium

B.date15/02/2002

Age21 years

H1m74

positionCentre Midfield

6Engels90

Arne Engels

Belgium

B.date08/09/2003

Age20 years

H1m85

positionCentre Midfield

8Vranckx

Aster Vranckx

Belgium

B.date04/10/2002

Age21 years

H1m83

positionCentre Midfield

23Rommens

Tuur Rommens

Belgium

B.date26/03/2003

Age20 years

H1m81

positionLeft full-back

3Spileers

Jorne Spileers

Belgium

B.date21/01/2005

Age18 years

positionDefender

4De Winter

Koni De Winter

Belgium

B.date12/06/2002

Age21 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

20Van der Brempt46

Ignace Van der Brempt

Belgium

B.date01/04/2002

Age21 years

H1m87

positionRight full-back

1Vandevoordt

Maarten Vandevoordt

Belgium

B.date26/02/2002

Age21 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Maarten Vandevoordt		21	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Koni De Winter		21	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Jorne Spileers		18	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	D	Ignace Van der Brempt	46	21	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Tuur Rommens		20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Eliot Matazo	77	21	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Arne Engels	90	20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Aster Vranckx		21	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Luca Oyen	62	20	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Lucas Stassin	62	18	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Malick Fofana	84	18	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

19.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
23	G	Dylan Ciappara		21
13	D	Nikolai Micallef	7894	20	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Jamie Carbone	87	21	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	D	Jake Micallef		19
2	D	Zean Leonardi		20
15	D	Matthias Ellul		18
19	M	Alfie Bridgman	73	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Daniel Letherby	74	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Jake Engerer	78	21	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	Senne Lammens		21
22	D	Fedde Leysen		20
2	D	Hugo Siquet	46	21	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Marco Kana		21
15	M	Mario Stroeykens	77	19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Jarne Steuckers		21
18	F	Kazeem Olaigbe	7562	20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	F	Samuel Mbangula	84	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Youssuf Sylla	62	20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Gianluca Sciberras

Jake Micallef

OUT

Kurt Bondin

Nikolai Micallef

OUT

Karl Mohnani

Basil Tuma

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Tuur Rommens

Killian Sardella

OUT

Lucas Stassin

Romeo Vermant

OUT

Eliot Matazo

Arthur Vermeeren

OUT

Arne Engels

Mandela Keita

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ivan Woods

Success rate in this team:

0 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

17 %

Woods vs Belgium U-21

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on October 13, 2023

Woods vs Swerts

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on October 13, 2023

Manager

Age

Match num

Gill Swerts

Success rate in this team:

100 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

32 %

Swerts vs Malta U-21

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 13, 2023

Swerts vs Woods

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 13, 2023

Referee

Dmitriy Dmitriyev

0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Malta U-211 match	General total	Belgium U-211 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Malta U-211 match	Season total	Belgium U-211 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on October 13, 2023					Latest figure on October 13, 2023

Videos

Comments

Key figures

It's the first time Arne Engels scores a goal in his professional career since the 17/09/2022 (with vs )

It's the first time Arne Engels scores 1 goal in UEFA U-21 Championship Qualifying

Malta U-21 keeps its 4 matches with at least 2 goals conceded vs Belgium U-21 running (since 09/10/2015). It's a record streak. The first of history

Read the next 7 key stats

General ranking

2	Hungary U-21	6 pts	3 rd
3	Belgium U-21	6 pts	2 rd
4	Scotland U-21	3 pts	2 rd
5	Kazakhstan U-21	0 pt	2 rd
6	Malta U-21	0 pt	3 rd

General ranking

1	Spain U-21	6 pts	2 rd
2	Hungary U-21	6 pts	3 rd
3	Belgium U-21	6 pts	2 rd
4	Scotland U-21	3 pts	2 rd
5	Kazakhstan U-21	0 pt	2 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VMalta 4-1 Northern Ireland U-2103/09/2021

LMalta 0-5 Spain U-2112/11/2021

LMalta 1-3 Lithuania U-2129/03/2022

LMalta 1-3 Slovakia U-2103/06/2022

LMalta 0-6 Spain U-2108/09/2023

LMalta 0-3 Hungary U-2112/09/2023

Overall

VNorthern Ireland U-21 0-2 Malta16/11/2021

LMalta 1-3 Lithuania U-2129/03/2022

LMalta 1-3 Slovakia U-2103/06/2022

LSpain U-21 7-1 Malta07/06/2022

LMalta 0-6 Spain U-2108/09/2023

LMalta 0-3 Hungary U-2112/09/2023

Current form

Away

VKazakhstan U-21 1-3 Belgium04/06/2021

VTurkey U-21 0-3 Belgium03/09/2021

VScotland U-21 0-2 Belgium16/11/2021

DDenmark U-21 1-1 Belgium29/03/2022

DFrance U-21 2-2 Belgium26/09/2022

DGeorgia U-21 2-2 Belgium24/06/2023

Overall

DBelgium 0-0 Scotland U-2105/06/2022

DFrance U-21 2-2 Belgium26/09/2022

DBelgium 0-0 Netherlands U-2121/06/2023

DGeorgia U-21 2-2 Belgium24/06/2023

LPortugal U-21 2-1 Belgium27/06/2023

VBelgium 1-0 Kazakhstan U-2111/09/2023

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	5	5
Winless streak	5	5
Drawless streak	11	20
Goalless streak	2	2
Conceding streak	11	5

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	3	0
Unbeaten streak	6	1
Winless streak	3	0
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	7	3
Conceding streak	3	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

General ranking (Competition total)

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

2	Number of games (Competition total)	1
2	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
0	Victories (Competition total)	1
0	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
2	Losses (Competition total)	0
2	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

0	Goals scored (Competition total)	1
0	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
9	Goals conceded (Competition total)	0
9	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
0	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1
0	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
4.5	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0
4.5	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	0
2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
0	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
2	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
0-6 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

5	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
5	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

-	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Kazeem Olaigbe
-	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Arthur Vermeeren
-	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Kazeem Olaigbe

Historical head to head

Home

3 matches

0 v

0 d

3 l

2 gf

8 ga

Away

3 matches

0 v

0 d

3 l

1 gf

5 ga

Total

6 matches

0 v

0 d

6 l

3 gf

13 ga

Historical head to head

Home

3 matches

3 v

0 d

0 l

5 gf

1 ga

Away

3 matches

3 v

0 d

0 l

8 gf

2 ga

Total

6 matches

6 v

0 d

0 l

13 gf

3 ga

Largest victory

No success yet

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	September 07, 2018
Away	4 - 0	September 07, 2018

Latest head to head

September 07, 2018 - Eliminatoires Euro Espoirs 2019

Malta U-21

0 - 4

Belgium U-21 logo Belgium

March 27, 2017 - Eliminatoires Euro Espoirs 2019

Belgium U-21

2 - 1

Malta U-21 logo Malta

September 02, 2016 - Eliminatoires Euro Espoirs 2017

Malta U-21

2 - 3

Belgium U-21 logo Belgium

October 09, 2015 - Eliminatoires Euro Espoirs 2017

Belgium U-21

2 - 0

Malta U-21 logo Malta

March 03, 2010 - Eliminatoires Euro Espoirs 2011

Belgium U-21

1 - 0

Malta U-21 logo Malta

Best historical scorers against Belgium U-21

	Jake Grech	1 goal	2017 - 2017
	Jurgen Degabriele	1 goal	2016 - 2016

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 04/09/2009. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Malta U-21

Youri Tielemans	2 goals	2015 - 2016
Theo Bongonda	1 goal	2016 - 2016
Dion Cools	1 goal	2017 - 2017
Nany Dimata	1 goal	2018 - 2018
Dodi Lukebakio	1 goal	2018 - 2018
Sven Kums	1 goal	2010 - 2010

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 04/09/2009. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Belgium U-21

Matthew Guillaumier	4 matches	2015 - 2018
Jurgen Degabriele	4 matches	2015 - 2018
Jake Grech	3 matches	2016 - 2018
Myles Beerman	3 matches	2016 - 2018
Joseph Mbong	3 matches	2015 - 2017
Jean Borg	3 matches	2016 - 2018

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 04/09/2009. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Malta U-21

Siebe Schrijvers	3 matches	2016 - 2018
Simon Mignolet	2 matches	2009 - 2010
Aaron Leya Iseka	2 matches	2017 - 2018
Nordin Jackers	2 matches	2017 - 2018
Davy Roef	2 matches	2015 - 2016
Thomas Foket	2 matches	2015 - 2016