Oguchi Onyewu and Standard Liège fell to three points behind victorious league leaders Club Brugge thanks to a disappointing scoreless home draw with Roeselare.

The home side generally carried play in a dreary opening period, but only created a few chances.

They came closest to scoring when narrowly missed with a restart header in the 20th minute and Milan Jovanovic should have done better than to shoot wide with free passage just beyond the half hour.

In the 43rd minute, Standard backstop Rory Espinoza kept the match goalless with a fine save on Kenny Thompson free kick.

Things didn't get much more exciting after the break and Igor De Camargo squandered three good looks at goal in the second half.

Les Rouches will now get ready for a big trip to Club Brugge next Sunday.

Line-ups
SL - Rorys Aragon Espinoza; Marcos Camozzato, Oguchi Onyewu, Mohamed Sarr, Dante Costa, Siramana Dembele (Dieumerci Mbokani 46'), Grégory Dufer, Marouane Fellaini, Axel Witsel, Milan Jovanovic (Salim Toama 83'), Igor De Camargo

ROES - Jurgen Sierens; Adil Hermach (Davy Oyen 88'), Damir Mirvic, Kenny Thompson, Daan Vaesen, Anthony Van Loo, Bjorn Smits, Stefaan Tanghe, Yves Vanderhaeghe, Izzet Akgül, Mama Dissa (Paul Kpaka 89')