Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Gent & Cercle Brugge face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Belgian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Gent form and stats
Gent are steadily winning Pro League games and points here at GHELAMCO-arena. 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 8 games.
The Gent goalkeeper Davy Roef is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 197 minutes without conceding a goal in the Pro League.
A good away victory last time out for Gent, who won 4-0 against Kortrijk. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Gent played a great game against Kortrijk and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. The home side have an in-form goalscorer in Hjulsager, having scored in three consecutive matches. The gifted forward Hjulsager outshone all the other players in that game and got a match rating of 8.84 out of 10. Hjulsager scored one goal, served one assist, hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 41 successful passes (of 47 total).
Before that one, a fine away victory at Dessel Sport. A Belgian Cup game.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Standard Liège are coming to town in three days.
On the other hand, Gent have conceded 9 goals.
Cercle Brugge form and stats
They also participated in Belgian Cup last season. This ended in the round of 16.Playing away, Cercle Brugge have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 5 defeats in the Pro League this season.
Two travels in a row for Cercle Brugge, whose manager Muslić could celebrate last time after the win against Sint-Truiden. Ueda has bagged at least one goal for this team three fixtures in a row. The smartness! Midfielder Deman was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.75. Deman hit one key pass.
Before that game, the win at home against Beerschot-Wilrijk in the Belgian Cup (3-1). As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Cercle playing away, we found 5 games. Results were 1 away win, 0 draws and 4 home wins.
Cercle Brugge have another fixture that requires travelling in just three sleeps, a Pro League fixture vs Mechelen. A difficult calendar for the guests!
Cercle have conceded 16 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head data (for the previous ten meetings): Gent won five games, two matches ended with a draw and Cercle Brugge managed three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Cuypers 9 goals |   A. Denkey 5 goals |
Gent missing players
Cercle Brugge missing players
| Gent | Cercle Brugge | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 7 | 8 | ||
| 49 | 22 | Scored | S | 18 | 38 | ||
| 25 | 11 | Conceded | C | 26 | 37 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 80% | ||
| 56% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 47% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 40% | ||
| 16% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 20% | ||
| 36% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 47% | 56% | ||
| 44% | 45% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 20% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 28% | ||
| 6.2 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 5 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 4.9 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.9 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 14.4 | 15.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 12.5 | ||
| 5.5 | 6.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 3.5 | ||
| 36% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 41% | ||
| 8.6 | 7.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.1 | 11.7 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 4.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Genk | 17 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 45 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 30 | 46 |
| 2 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 35 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 14 | 13 | 36 |
| 3 | Antwerp | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 30 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 35 |
| 4 | Club Brugge | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 34 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 33 |
| 5 | Gent | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 30 |
| 6 | Westerlo | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 34 | 30 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 4 | 26 |
| 7 | OH Leuven | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 25 |
| 8 | Standard Liège | 16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 25 |
| 9 | Cercle Brugge | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 25 |
| 10 | Sint-Truiden | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | -2 | 23 |
| 11 | Anderlecht | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 20 |
| 12 | Sporting Charleroi | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 22 | 29 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -7 | 19 |
| 13 | Mechelen | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 24 | 30 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -6 | 18 |
| 14 | KV Oostende | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 20 | 37 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 22 | -17 | 17 |
| 15 | AS Eupen | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 24 | 38 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 24 | -14 | 16 |
| 16 | Zulte-Waregem | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 40 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -17 | 13 |
| 17 | Kortrijk | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 33 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -19 | 12 |
| 18 | RFC Seraing | 17 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 33 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 19 | -17 | 11 |
