Club Brugge - Cercle Brugge. 2nd position hosts 14th position. Everything can happen - get a comprehensive preview here!
- Club Brugge have not yet lost a game at home.
- Cercle Brugge have the most matches under the total-line (5) in Pro League
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
This looks to be an exciting match with lots of spark and excitement as both contenders are well revitalized since they last ran out on the pitch. Game on!
Club Brugge form and stats
Club Brugge have collected seven points from their first three Pro League games here at Jan Breydelstadion, a promising start.
A strong away win for Club Brugge against Sporting Charleroi the last match, as Nielsen and Jutglà (2) were on target. The hosts have an in-form goalscorer in Jutglà, having scored in three matches in a row. The versatile forward Jutglà outshone all teammates in that game and got a match rating of 8.42 out of 10. Jutglà scored two goals and hit four key passes.
Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Kortrijk.Club Brugge are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 11 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 8, drew 3 and lost 0.
Brugge have conceded 4 in these home matches.
Cercle Brugge form and stats
It's not happening yet for Cercle Brugge on their Pro League travels, with zero points from their first 3 away games. Maybe today will be different? The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Thalhammer, the Cercle Brugge manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
Cercle delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Zulte-Waregem (placed 13th) in their previous match. Midfielder Ueda was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.1. Ueda scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Genk wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.There's been a serious shortage of goals from Cercle Brugge's away games in the league this season with only 1 goal from 3 matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's seven Club Brugge victories, two draws and one Cercle Brugge win. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Olsen 3 goals |  C. Nielsen 2 goals |
Club Brugge missing players
Cercle Brugge missing players
| Club Brugge | Cercle Brugge | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 13 | 6 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 6 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 83% | 67% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 67% | 50% |
| 7.2 | 8.7 | 11 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5 | 6.2 |
| 3.8 | 3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 5 | 4.7 |
| 1.7 | 2 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.7 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17.8 | 23.3 | 27 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 6.7 | 12 |
| 3.7 | 3.3 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 1.7 | 2.8 |
| 59% | 60% | 75% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 20% | 18% |
| 13.7 | 11.3 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17 | 16.7 | 12.7 |
| 5.8 | 5.7 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 5.7 | 4.3 |
- All of Cercle Brugge's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Club Brugge's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cercle Brugge have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Cercle Brugge have lost all their away matches so far.
- Cercle Brugge have the most matches under the total-line (5) in Pro League
- Cercle Brugge have the the worst goal difference (-5) away in Pro League
- Cercle Brugge have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Club Brugge have not yet lost a game at home.
- Club Brugge have scored in all their matches so far.
- Club Brugge have scored more than double the goals of Cercle Brugge.
- Club Brugge have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Club Brugge have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Club Brugge 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 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 15 |
| 2 | Club Brugge | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | Antwerp | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | OH Leuven | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| 5 | Anderlecht | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| 6 | Sporting Charleroi | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 7 | Sint-Truiden | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 8 | Gent | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Mechelen | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 7 |
| 10 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 7 |
| 11 | Westerlo | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 6 |
| 12 | KV Oostende | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 6 |
| 13 | Zulte-Waregem | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 5 |
| 14 | Cercle Brugge | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -4 | 5 |
| 15 | Kortrijk | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 4 |
| 16 | Standard Liege | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 4 |
| 17 | AS Eupen | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -6 | 3 |
| 18 | RFC Seraing | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -8 | 3 |
