The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Cercle Brugge are in the 8th position while the guesting Royal Excel Mouscron worry at 18th.
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 Royal Excel Mouscron.
Cercle Brugge form and stats
The story so far in the Pro League for Cercle Brugge at their home stadium (Jan Breydelstadion) is 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.
Happy days for Cercle in their previous game, a Pro League match away at Waasland-Beveren (placed 17th) that ended with a 2-0 victory. Ahead of that match, Cercle lost 1-3 at home to Zulte-Waregem.
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.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Genk are coming to town in three days.
Goals decide football matches and Cercle are scoring many of them at home; 11 on target from 5 league matches. 7 goals have been conceded.
Royal Excel Mouscron form and stats
0 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Royal Excel Mouscron, who have the fewest scored goals (4) in Pro League, playing as the away team in the Pro League this season. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for Mouscron, who have now gone ten games without a victory. The Antwerp game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since. Three consecutive losses in away matches means Royal Excel Mouscron are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Mouscron, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-4 versus Genk (placed 2nd). Preceding that, the 0-2 home loss versus AS Eupen.
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Mouscron when being an outsider away as they are today, we find three matches with the visitors losing one time, drawing one and winning one game.
A quick return to home after this game, as Mouscron are hosting Club Brugge in the Pro League only three days away.
The visitors have scored 3 goals from 5 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Royal Excel Mouscron have conceded 12 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Cercle Brugge-Royal Excel Mouscron H2H statistics last eight meetings regardless of arena: Cercle Brugge four wins, Royal Excel Mouscron three wins, one draw. seven of these eight matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  I. Ugbo 7 goals |  D. Hotič 3 goals | G. Mbenza Kamboleke 2 goals |
Cercle Brugge missing players
Royal Excel Mouscron missing players
| Cercle Brugge | Royal Excel Mouscron | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 19 | 11 | 4 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 18 | 7 | 3 | Conceded | C | 7 | 12 | 18 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 70% |
| 67% | 80% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 60% | 30% |
| 25% | 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 17% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 50% | 60% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 60% | 40% |
| 17% | 20% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 40% | 60% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1.4 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.7 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 71 | 40 | 22 | Total Shots | T S | 12 | 28 | 55 |
| 35 | 24 | 13 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 9 | 18 |
| 54% | 46% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 33% | 22% |
- All of Royal Excel Mouscron's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cercle Brugge has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Pro League
- Cercle Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cercle Brugge have scored more than double the goals of Royal Excel Mouscron.
- Cercle Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Pro League
- Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest scored goals (4) in Pro League
- Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Pro League
- Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Pro League
- Royal Excel Mouscron have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Royal Excel Mouscron have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Royal Excel Mouscron have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Royal Excel Mouscron have yet to win a game.
- Royal Excel Mouscron haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Royal Excel Mouscron is in the worst form (0-1-5)
| 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 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 18 | 26 |
| 2 | Genk | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 25 |
| 3 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 35 | 31 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 17 | 4 | 25 |
| 4 | Sporting Charleroi | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 23 |
| 5 | Standard Liege | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 23 |
| 6 | Antwerp | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 22 |
| 7 | Anderlecht | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 23 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 21 |
| 8 | Cercle Brugge | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 19 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 18 |
| 9 | OH Leuven | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 18 |
| 10 | KV Oostende | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 11 | Gent | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 21 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 16 |
| 12 | Kortrijk | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | -2 | 16 |
| 13 | AS Eupen | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 10 | -6 | 13 |
| 14 | Mechelen | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -5 | 12 |
| 15 | Zulte-Waregem | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -12 | 11 |
| 16 | Sint-Truiden | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -9 | 9 |
| 17 | Waasland-Beveren | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -15 | 5 |
| 18 | Royal Excel Mouscron | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | -14 | 3 |