Let's look at this engaging fixture in the Pro League. Cercle Brugge is in the 11th spot after featuring in five fixtures. They host Sint-Truiden who are placed 15th after five games.
- Cercle Brugge have the most dropped points from leading position (6) in Pro League
- Sint-Truiden have yet to win a game away.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
This football field uses grass, unlike Sint-Truiden's home ground. The last 42 games by the away side on grass have given 11 wins, 10 draws and 21 losses.
Cercle Brugge form and stats
Cercle Brugge are yet to win a home game, having collected 1 point from their first two Pro League games here at Jan Breydelstadion.
Cercle lost their last game at RFC Seraing (placed 10th) after a 1-2 scoreline. Defender Edgaras Utkus got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.4/10. Utkus won 12 of 14 duels.
Before that game, the home loss against Anderlecht with the scoreline 1-2.Cercle Brugge has scored 2 goals so far and conceded 3 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
Sint-Truiden form and stats
The Pro League season is young and Sint-Truiden have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 2 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 1 defeat so far. It's a growing despair in Sint-Truiden as they have recorded three consecutive losses.
Home advantage was not enough for Sint-Truiden in their previous game, as they lost their Pro League-match, hosting Kortrijk, 0-2. Jorge Teixeira was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.15. The defender Teixeira hit one key pass and won 4 of 4 duels.
Prior to that match, the Sint-Truiden manager B. Hollerbach faced defeat when travelling to AS Eupen and losing 1-2.1 goal so far away for Sint-Truiden, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
Cercle Brugge-Sint-Truiden H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Cercle Brugge five wins, Sint-Truiden two wins, three draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  O. Deman 2 goals |  W. Rubio Martín 2 goals |  B. Popović 1 goals |
Cercle Brugge missing players
Sint-Truiden missing players
| Cercle Brugge | Sint-Truiden | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 50% | 80% |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 80% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 50% | 40% |
| 3 | 4.5 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 6.5 | 5.6 |
| 6 | 5 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.5 | 5.8 |
| 2.6 | 2.5 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3 | 2.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 10 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 11 | 13 |
| 2.8 | 3.5 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 5 | 4.6 |
| 36% | 29% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 10% | 17% |
- All of Cercle Brugge's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cercle Brugge have scored in all their matches so far.
- Cercle Brugge have the most dropped points from leading position (6) in Pro League
- Cercle Brugge have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Cercle Brugge have yet to win a game at home.
- Cercle Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sint-Truiden have yet to win a game away.
| Cercle Brugge | Last season | Sint-Truiden | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 34 | 17 | Played | P | 17 | 34 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 20 | 10 | Lost | L | 8 | 16 | ||
| 40 | 25 | Scored | S | 21 | 41 | ||
| 51 | 26 | Conceded | C | 32 | 52 | ||
| 97% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 88% | 88% | ||
| 74% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 79% | ||
| 56% | 65% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 53% | ||
| 15% | 24% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 41% | 26% | ||
| 12% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 12% | ||
| 50% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 53% | ||
| 15% | 24% | Clean Sheets | C S | 24% | 26% | ||
| 38% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 35% | 32% | ||
| 4.4 | 3.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 4.6 | ||
| 5.7 | 5.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.7 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.1 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 8 | ||
| 6.8 | 6.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.3 | 7.6 | ||
| 3.1 | 3.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 3.3 | ||
| 37% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 37% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | AS Eupen | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 11 |
| 2 | Standard Liege | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 3 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| 4 | Kortrijk | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 5 | KV Oostende | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | -1 | 9 |
| 6 | Club Brugge | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 7 | Genk | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 8 | Anderlecht | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 9 | Sporting Charleroi | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | RFC Seraing | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -4 | 6 |
| 11 | Cercle Brugge | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 5 |
| 12 | Antwerp | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 4 |
| 13 | Gent | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 14 | Zulte-Waregem | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | -3 | 4 |
| 15 | Sint-Truiden | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -4 | 4 |
| 16 | Mechelen | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -4 | 3 |
| 17 | OH Leuven | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -7 | 3 |
| 18 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -5 | 1 |