Betting guide: Club Brugge favourite to beat Genk at Jan Breydelstadion

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sun 24.January
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Jan Breydelstadion (29975 seats)

Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Club Brugge - Genk!

Insights:
  • Club Brugge has the most scored goals (45) in Pro League
  • Genk has the most points from losing position (16) in Pro League

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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Club Brugge form and stats

22 points is a decent return from 11 Pro League games here at Jan Breydelstadion for Club Brugge. The data says 7 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Brugge has won four games in a row. The Gent match was the last time out without a victory. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Brugge after consecutive victories at their own ground.

The Brugge supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host KV Oostende in Pro League and win 2-1. In the game before, an away victory match versus Beerschot-Wilrijk with a 3-0 scoreline.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Brugge as they are travelling to their away game against Cercle Brugge in the Pro League. That match is four days after this one.

Brugge have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Jan Breydelstadion with 18 goals in 11 league matches. Brugge have only conceded 8 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Genk form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Pro League travels is 5 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats. Genk seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Genk delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Gent (placed 13th) in their previous match; a Pro League game. Prior to that match, the Genk manager J. van den Brom faced defeat when travelling to Royal Excel Mouscron and losing 0-2.

After this away game Genk return home for a Pro League game against Zulte-Waregem. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The travelling fans enjoy Genk's attacking play in away games, having scored 19 goals in 11 league matches away. As opposed to that, Genk have seen the ball go into their own net 16 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Genk - Club Brugge 1-2 earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Brugge victories, four draws and one Genk win. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

GenkE. Onuachu
E. Onuachu
20 goals
GenkT. Bongonda Mbul'Ofeko Batombo
T. Bongonda Mbul'Ofeko Batombo
11 goals
BruggeK. Diatta
K. Diatta
10 goals

Club Brugge missing players

Genk missing players

Club Brugge Genk
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 11 1 Played P 2 11 22
15 7 1 Won W 0 5 11
3 1 0 Drew D 1 2 6
4 3 0 Lost L 1 4 5
45 18 3 Scored S 0 19 44
14 8 0 Conceded C 1 16 28
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 91% 95%
73% 55% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 82% 91%
64% 55% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 64% 64%
23% 18% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 27% 36%
9% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 27% 23%
41% 36% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 73% 77%
45% 36% 100% Clean Sheets C S 50% 9% 14%
18% 27% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 27% 14%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.3 1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 1.9 1.6
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 3 6
 
8.5 6 0 Shots (avg) S ( 2 6.1 8.5
3.8 2.4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.2 4.4
54% 69% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 54% 45%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals (14) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the most clean sheets (10) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the most scored goals (45) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the the best goal difference (+31) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Club Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Genk has the most points from losing position (16) in Pro League

  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 22 15 3 4 45 14 11 7 1 3 18 8 11 8 2 1 27 6 31 48
2 Genk 22 11 6 5 44 28 11 6 4 1 25 12 11 5 2 4 19 16 16 39
3 Antwerp 22 11 4 7 35 30 11 6 3 2 18 13 11 5 1 5 17 17 5 37
4 OH Leuven 22 10 5 7 39 36 11 6 2 3 16 13 11 4 3 4 23 23 3 35
5 Anderlecht 22 9 8 5 33 25 11 7 4 0 18 6 11 2 4 5 15 19 8 35
6 Standard Liège 22 9 7 6 30 22 11 4 5 2 15 12 11 5 2 4 15 10 8 34
7 Sporting Charleroi 22 10 3 9 32 29 10 5 1 4 11 7 12 5 2 5 21 22 3 33
8 KV Oostende 22 9 5 8 31 28 11 6 3 2 22 14 11 3 2 6 9 14 3 32
9 AS Eupen 22 7 9 6 29 34 11 4 3 4 17 19 11 3 6 2 12 15 -5 30
10 Zulte-Waregem 22 9 3 10 34 38 12 3 2 7 14 24 10 6 1 3 20 14 -4 30
11 Beerschot-Wilrijk 22 9 3 10 42 48 11 6 2 3 25 20 11 3 1 7 17 28 -6 30
12 Kortrijk 22 8 5 9 27 32 12 5 2 5 19 22 10 3 3 4 8 10 -5 29
13 Gent 22 8 3 11 30 30 10 4 1 5 16 14 12 4 2 6 14 16 0 27
14 Mechelen 22 7 5 10 32 40 12 3 2 7 19 25 10 4 3 3 13 15 -8 26
15 Sint-Truiden 22 7 5 10 29 34 11 4 3 4 14 12 11 3 2 6 15 22 -5 26
16 Royal Excel Mouscron 22 5 6 11 19 32 11 3 4 4 12 12 11 2 2 7 7 20 -13 21
17 Waasland-Beveren 22 5 5 12 28 48 10 2 1 7 11 24 12 3 4 5 17 24 -20 20
18 Cercle Brugge 22 6 1 15 27 38 11 3 0 8 17 22 11 3 1 7 10 16 -11 19

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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.