This is a vital clash in the cellar of the Pro League, with both Cercle Brugge and RFC Seraing suffering more worry than pleasure. This fixture is a real "six-pointer" with the hosts positioned 16th and the visitors in 15th place.
- Cercle Brugge have the fewest points (5) at home in Pro League
- RFC Seraing have the most conceded goals (22) away in Pro League
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Cercle and RFC Seraing.
Cercle Brugge form and stats
Cercle Brugge's results here at Jan Breydelstadion in the Pro League have been very modest with 1 victory, 2 draws and 6 defeats.
A good away victory last time out for Cercle Brugge, who won 2-1 against Sint-Truiden (placed 11th). Hannes Van Der Bruggen (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.32/10. Bruggen served one assist and hit one key pass.
In the game before, an away victory match versus Kortrijk with a 2-0 scoreline.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Cercle's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played one game, won one match, drawn zero and lost zero.
Cercle Brugge are traveling soon after this match as the Pro League match at Union Saint-Gilloise awaits in four days.
Cercle Brugge have scored 8 league goals here from 9 matches, not a lot. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Cercle Brugge have conceded 14 from these games. Cercle has at home met teams with this table position (low), two times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.
RFC Seraing form and stats
RFC Seraing have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Pro League, after 2-0-7 (9 played).
RFC Seraing's previous game was their home loss versus Anderlecht (0-5). Seraing lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-5 beating and focus on this one. Ibrahima Cisse got a match rating of 7.03 in that game, top player of the team. Cisse had 27 successful passes (of 33 total).
A 2-3 defeat away at Club Brugge before that.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 Seraing playing away, we found three games. Results were one away win, zero draws and two home wins.
After this away game Seraing return home for a Pro League game against Kortrijk. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far RFC Seraing have scored 10 goals in 9 league games away. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Seraing have conceded 22 goals in these games. When RFC Seraing is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 2 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Beerschot-Wilrijk, RFC Seraing, OH Leuven, Standard Liege and Zulte-Waregem.
Head 2 Head
RFC Seraing - Cercle 2-1 was the scoreline in these sides' previous head-to-head game, played this season. Head-2-head stats last three meetings: two - zero - one (Cercle Brugge wins - draws - RFC Seraing wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Mikautadze 7 goals |  Y. Maziz 6 goals |   R. Matondo 4 goals |
Cercle Brugge missing players
RFC Seraing missing players
| Cercle Brugge | RFC Seraing | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | 6 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 7 | 11 |
| 22 | 8 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 23 |
| 25 | 14 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 22 | 36 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 83% | 78% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 56% | 56% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 89% | 72% |
| 11% | 11% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 39% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 22% | 28% |
| 72% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | 50% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 44% | 39% |
| 5 | 5.2 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 3.1 | 4 |
| 4.6 | 3.3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.5 | 6.4 | 5.4 |
| 2.4 | 2.1 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11.9 | 14.2 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 9.9 | 11.3 |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3 | 3.7 |
| 31% | 22% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 37% | 35% |
| 9.7 | 9.9 | 6.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.5 | 16.3 | 13.4 |
| 3.7 | 3.7 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 6.3 | 5.7 |
- All of RFC Seraing's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cercle Brugge have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Cercle Brugge have the fewest points (5) at home in Pro League
- Cercle Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- RFC Seraing have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- RFC Seraing have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- RFC Seraing have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- RFC Seraing have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- RFC Seraing have the most conceded goals (22) away in Pro League
- RFC Seraing have the the worst goal difference (-12) away in Pro League
- RFC Seraing have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- RFC Seraing haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 43 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 9 | 25 | 37 |
| 2 | Antwerp | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 30 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 33 |
| 3 | Club Brugge | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 32 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 33 |
| 4 | Sporting Charleroi | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 32 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 10 | 32 |
| 5 | Anderlecht | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 39 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 15 | 31 |
| 6 | Gent | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 27 |
| 7 | Mechelen | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 29 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 27 |
| 8 | AS Eupen | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 28 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 25 |
| 9 | Kortrijk | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 22 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 25 |
| 10 | Genk | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 29 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 2 | 22 |
| 11 | Sint-Truiden | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -8 | 21 |
| 12 | KV Oostende | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 21 | 37 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 21 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 16 | -16 | 20 |
| 13 | Standard Liege | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 29 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | -11 | 20 |
| 14 | OH Leuven | 18 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 23 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 17 | -6 | 20 |
| 15 | RFC Seraing | 18 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 23 | 36 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 22 | -13 | 19 |
| 16 | Cercle Brugge | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 25 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | -3 | 19 |
| 17 | Zulte-Waregem | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 27 | 38 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 15 | -11 | 17 |
| 18 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 18 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 32 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 21 | -17 | 9 |