The visiting Club Brugge side should be favourites in this visit to Cercle Brugge, as the away team holds a 29 point advantage from their 23 league games this season.
- Cercle Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Club Brugge has the most scored goals (48) in Pro League
Club Brugge could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Pro League game only four sleeps ago.
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
Cercle Brugge form and stats
With 3 Pro League wins, 0 draws and 8 defeats from their home games, Cercle Brugge are certainly not brimming with confidence. Cercle are slowly digging their own grave here at Jan Breydelstadion with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in seven attempts. The last victory here came in the Gent match.
Cercle Brugge are returning here after visiting Kortrijk in a Pro League game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Ike Ugbo and Strahinja Pavlović scored the goal(s). A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Antwerp.
There will be little rest for Cercle after this match as they are travelling to Sint-Truiden for a Pro League game in only three days.
The Cercle fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 17 goals in 11 league matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Cercle Brugge with 22 goals conceded in these matches.
Club Brugge form and stats
The away team, who have the most scored goals (48) in Pro League, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 8 wins, 2 draws and only 1 loss in the Pro League. Brugge have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of five victories in a row regardless of arena. A great winning streak in away games for Brugge as they have managed to win four matches in a row as the visitors. Not since the Royal Excel Mouscron have they travelled home without three points.
The supporters enjoyed Brugge's previous game versus Genk (placed 2nd), a Pro League 3-2 win played at home. That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus KV Oostende.
After this away game Club Brugge return home for a Pro League game against Standard Liège. That game is only three sleeps after this.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Brugge are regular goalscorers on their travels. It's not easy to score on Brugge as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Club Brugge - Cercle 2-1, played this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: zero - two - eight (Cercle Brugge wins - draws - Club Brugge wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  I. Ugbo 11 goals |   N. Lang 7 goals |  A. Musaba 5 goals |
Cercle Brugge missing players
Club Brugge missing players
| Cercle Brugge | Club Brugge | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 23 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 15 | 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 29 | 17 | 3 | Scored | S | 5 | 27 | 48 |
| 39 | 22 | 8 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 91% | 96% |
| 74% | 73% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 91% | 74% |
| 61% | 73% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 73% | 65% |
| 22% | 36% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 27% | 26% |
| 17% | 27% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 9% | 13% |
| 57% | 64% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 45% | 43% |
| 9% | 9% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 55% | 43% |
| 35% | 27% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 9% | 17% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1.9 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6.1 | 5.9 | 6.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.3 | 10.9 | 8.4 |
| 2.9 | 3.5 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 5.3 | 3.9 |
| 43% | 45% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 47% | 53% |
- Cercle Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cercle Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals (16) in Pro League
- Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals (6) away in Pro League
- Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in Pro League
- Club Brugge has the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Pro League
- Club Brugge has the most clean sheets (10) in Pro League
- Club Brugge has the most clean sheets (6) away in Pro League
- Club Brugge has the most points (26) away in Pro League
- Club Brugge has the most scored goals (27) away in Pro League
- Club Brugge has the most scored goals (48) in Pro League
- Club Brugge has the the best goal difference (+21) away in Pro League
- Club Brugge has the the best goal difference (+32) in Pro League
- Club Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Club Brugge have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Club Brugge | 23 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 48 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 6 | 32 | 51 |
| 2 | Genk | 23 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 46 | 31 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 39 |
| 3 | Standard Liège | 23 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 33 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 37 |
| 4 | Antwerp | 23 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 36 | 32 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 4 | 37 |
| 5 | Anderlecht | 23 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 33 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 8 | 36 |
| 6 | KV Oostende | 23 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 33 | 29 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 35 |
| 7 | OH Leuven | 23 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 39 | 39 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 35 |
| 8 | Sporting Charleroi | 23 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 34 | 32 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 25 | 2 | 33 |
| 9 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 23 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 45 | 48 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 28 | -3 | 33 |
| 10 | AS Eupen | 23 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 29 | 37 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 18 | -8 | 30 |
| 11 | Gent | 23 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 33 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 16 | 3 | 30 |
| 12 | Zulte-Waregem | 23 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 34 | 41 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 27 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 14 | -7 | 30 |
| 13 | Kortrijk | 23 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 28 | 34 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | -6 | 29 |
| 14 | Mechelen | 23 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 35 | 40 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 15 | -5 | 29 |
| 15 | Sint-Truiden | 23 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 29 | 36 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 22 | -7 | 26 |
| 16 | Royal Excel Mouscron | 23 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 32 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 20 | -11 | 24 |
| 17 | Cercle Brugge | 23 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 29 | 39 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 22 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 17 | -10 | 22 |
| 18 | Waasland-Beveren | 23 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 28 | 48 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 24 | -20 | 21 |