Cercle Brugge vs Sporting Charleroi: Soccer betting preview

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Fri 21.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Jan Breydelstadion (29975 seats)

Which team will win when Sporting Charleroi visit Cercle Brugge? In this match guide you'll learn all the relevant information and statistics required to make a prediction.

Insights:
  • Cercle Brugge have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Pro League
  • Sporting Charleroi haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Cercle Brugge form and stats

2 victories, 3 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Cercle Brugge have to build on here at Jan Breydelstadion in the Pro League.

A strong away win for Cercle Brugge against RFC Seraing the last match, as Popović were on target. Popović was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.81 out of 10. The defender Popović scored one goal and won 9 of 12 duels.

Ahead of that match, Cercle won a home game hosting AS Eupen (5-1).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Cercle Brugge have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 10 games) they have won 2 times, drawn 4 and lost 4.

A decent goal production from Cercle Brugge in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 6 league matches.

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Sporting Charleroi form and stats

3-0-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sporting Charleroi in their Pro League matches away.

Charleroi played 2-2 against Kortrijk in their previous match. Drawing 2-2 against Kortrijk after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager Still needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result. The attacker Hosseinzadeh got a match rating of 7.45 in that game. Hosseinzadeh served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

A 1-2 defeat away at Sint-Truiden before that.

Sporting Charleroi are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 5 matches.

The visiting Sporting Charleroi have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 8 goals from 6 games. As opposed to that, Charleroi have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Sporting Charleroi have been victorious in every one of the 7 latest fixtures versus this side. Can they do it again?

Top Goalscorers

Cercle BruggeA. Denkey
A. Denkey
5 goals
Cercle BruggeD. Hotič
D. Hotič
3 goals
Cercle BruggeA. Ueda
A. Ueda
3 goals

Cercle Brugge missing players

Sporting Charleroi missing players

Cercle Brugge Sporting Charleroi
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
13 6 1 Played P 3 6 13
4 2 1 Won W 1 3 5
3 3 0 Drew D 0 0 1
6 1 0 Lost L 2 3 7
16 9 1 Scored S 4 8 19
21 6 0 Conceded C 5 7 21
92% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
77% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 50% 69%
46% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 50% 69%
31% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 54%
15% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 17% 15%
46% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 50% 69%
23% 33% 100% Clean Sheets C S 33% 33% 15%
38% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 15%
 
5 6.2 8 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 4.2 3.8
4.4 4.2 1 Corners against (avg) C A 6.7 5.5 4.5
1.8 0.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2 1.9
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
13.3 16.5 14 Shots (avg) S ( 6.7 9.2 11
3.8 4.8 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4 4.3
33% 31% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 33% 34%
 
11.5 8.8 5 Shots against (avg) S A 12.3 12.5 10.5
4 3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 4.3 4.5
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Cercle Brugge have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Pro League
  • Cercle Brugge have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Sporting Charleroi haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 13 11 1 1 33 12 7 6 1 0 18 6 6 5 0 1 15 6 21 34
2 Antwerp 12 10 0 2 24 11 6 6 0 0 16 5 6 4 0 2 8 6 13 30
3 Club Brugge 12 8 1 3 23 12 6 4 1 1 13 6 6 4 0 2 10 6 11 25
4 Union Saint-Gilloise 12 8 1 3 25 16 5 4 0 1 8 5 7 4 1 2 17 11 9 25
5 Standard Liege 12 7 1 4 19 15 7 4 1 2 12 7 5 3 0 2 7 8 4 22
6 Gent 12 6 2 4 23 14 6 3 1 2 12 8 6 3 1 2 11 6 9 20
7 OH Leuven 13 6 2 5 23 23 6 3 0 3 7 10 7 3 2 2 16 13 0 20
8 Westerlo 13 6 1 6 23 26 6 4 1 1 12 6 7 2 0 5 11 20 -3 19
9 Anderlecht 12 5 1 6 19 13 7 3 1 3 11 7 5 2 0 3 8 6 6 16
10 Sint-Truiden 12 4 4 4 12 12 6 2 1 3 7 9 6 2 3 1 5 3 0 16
11 Sporting Charleroi 13 5 1 7 19 21 7 2 1 4 11 14 6 3 0 3 8 7 -2 16
12 Cercle Brugge 13 4 3 6 16 21 6 2 3 1 9 6 7 2 0 5 7 15 -5 15
13 AS Eupen 13 4 0 9 14 27 7 2 0 5 8 14 6 2 0 4 6 13 -13 12
14 Mechelen 12 3 2 7 17 24 6 2 1 3 11 12 6 1 1 4 6 12 -7 11
15 KV Oostende 12 3 2 7 13 22 6 2 0 4 6 13 6 1 2 3 7 9 -9 11
16 RFC Seraing 13 3 2 8 13 22 6 0 1 5 1 10 7 3 1 3 12 12 -9 11
17 Kortrijk 13 3 2 8 12 23 6 1 1 4 4 11 7 2 1 4 8 12 -11 11
18 Zulte-Waregem 12 2 2 8 12 26 6 1 0 5 7 18 6 1 2 3 5 8 -14 8

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The First Division A is the top league of the football pyramid in Belgium, founded in 1895. It was earlier known as the Belgian Pro League. The season runs from July to May with 16 teams each playing 30 fixtures. The top six in the league table then play a championship playoff, the bottom team is relegated and places #7 to #15 have a Europa League playoff.