Cercle Brugge will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 9 points behind Sporting Charleroi.
- Cercle Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sporting Charleroi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
It's no vacation for neither Cercle nor Sporting Charleroi as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Cercle Brugge form and stats
When playing at home in the Pro League, Cercle Brugge have managed 3 wins, 0 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 8 games. It's trouble wherever Cercle are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways. The home stadium (Jan Breydelstadion) is supposed to be a fortress, but for Cercle Brugge it's been a house of straw as the last four games here have all been lost. Can they turn things around?
Cercle's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus KV Oostende (placed 9th). Prior to that, an away loss at OH Leuven.
There will be little rest for Cercle after this match as they are travelling to Beerschot-Wilrijk for a Pro League game in only four days.
Cercle have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Jan Breydelstadion with 13 goals in 8 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Cercle defense is not exactly impregnable. 15 goals conceded from 8 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Sporting Charleroi form and stats
The visitors are W4-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Pro League.
Charleroi play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Sint-Truiden (placed 18th). Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Kortrijk.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Anderlecht in just three days.
The travelling fans enjoy Sporting Charleroi's attacking play in away games, having scored 14 goals in 8 league matches away. As opposed to that, Sporting Charleroi have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Sporting Charleroi - Cercle 3-0 earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Cercle victories, zero draws and six Sporting Charleroi wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  I. Ugbo 8 goals |  K. Rezaei 6 goals | S. Nicholson 5 goals |
Cercle Brugge missing players
Sporting Charleroi missing players
| Cercle Brugge | Sporting Charleroi | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 8 | 16 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 22 | 13 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 14 | 24 |
| 28 | 15 | 5 | Conceded | C | 3 | 11 | 17 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 81% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 75% |
| 69% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 62% | 50% |
| 25% | 38% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 38% | 25% |
| 19% | 25% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 6% |
| 56% | 62% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 38% |
| 31% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 19% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2 | 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 5 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6.8 | 8.1 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14 | 8.5 | 8.5 |
| 3.4 | 4.8 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.2 | 3.4 |
| 41% | 34% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 54% | 44% |
- Cercle Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cercle Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sporting Charleroi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sporting Charleroi have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Sporting Charleroi 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 | Genk | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 35 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 31 |
| 2 | Club Brugge | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 19 | 30 |
| 3 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 16 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 39 | 37 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 22 | 2 | 28 |
| 4 | OH Leuven | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 28 |
| 5 | Sporting Charleroi | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 27 |
| 6 | Anderlecht | 16 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 26 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 26 |
| 7 | Antwerp | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 28 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 25 |
| 8 | Standard Liege | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 25 |
| 9 | KV Oostende | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 22 |
| 10 | Kortrijk | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | -3 | 20 |
| 11 | AS Eupen | 15 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 18 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -3 | 20 |
| 12 | Cercle Brugge | 16 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 22 | 28 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 13 | -6 | 18 |
| 13 | Gent | 15 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 22 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 13 | -3 | 16 |
| 14 | Zulte-Waregem | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 30 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 11 | -9 | 15 |
| 15 | Waasland-Beveren | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -9 | 15 |
| 16 | Mechelen | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 14 | -6 | 14 |
| 17 | Royal Excel Mouscron | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 17 | -14 | 13 |
| 18 | Sint-Truiden | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -12 | 11 |