The Club Brugge & Gent bosses Schreuder and Vanhaezebrouck are both anxious about and looking forward to this highly important match in the upper area of the Pro League league table.
- Club Brugge have not yet lost a game at home.
- Club Brugge have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Gent have scored away.
It's no vacation for neither Club Brugge nor Gent 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.
Club Brugge form and stats
Club Brugge are steadily winning Pro League games and points here at Jan Breydelstadion. 6 wins, 6 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 12 games. The Club Brugge fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Jan Breydelstadion and will expect new points from this game. Club Brugge has played twelve games in a row here without a defeat.
The Brugge goalkeeper Simon Mignolet is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 222 minutes without conceding a goal in the Pro League.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Kortrijk and winning 1-0.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 Club Brugge have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found five games) they have won one time, drawn three and lost one.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Club Brugge at home in the league. 24 on target and 12 scored by the opposition; from 12 matches.
Gent form and stats
Playing away, Gent have won 3 games, drawn 4 and suffered 5 defeats in the Pro League this season. Two points from the last two away games for Gent, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Antwerp.The visitors have scored 11 goals from 12 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Gent are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 11 times in 12 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Gent - Club Brugge 6-1 was the score in these squads' latest h2h game, played this season. Previous ten meetings featuring these contenders: Club Brugge won five, Gent were winners in three and we saw two draws. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Dost 11 goals |  C. De Ketelaere 10 goals |   T. Tissoudali 10 goals |
Club Brugge missing players
Gent missing players
| Club Brugge | Gent | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 25 |
| 13 | 6 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 9 | 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 46 | 24 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 11 | 36 |
| 30 | 12 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 11 | 26 |
| 96% | 92% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 75% | 88% |
| 84% | 92% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 25% | 42% | 64% |
| 56% | 58% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 44% |
| 40% | 42% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 8% | 24% |
| 20% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 12% |
| 60% | 58% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 33% | 48% |
| 36% | 42% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 42% | 32% |
| 8% | 8% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 75% | 50% | 32% |
| 6.6 | 7.2 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 6 | 6.7 |
| 4.4 | 3 | 8.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| 1.8 | 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 15.8 | 18.2 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 14 | 15.5 |
| 5.7 | 6.2 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 4.2 | 5.4 |
| 32% | 32% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 9% | 22% | 26% |
| 10.4 | 9 | 15 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.5 | 9.8 | 9.5 |
| 3.6 | 2.8 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.2 | 3.5 |
- Club Brugge have not yet lost a game at home.
- Club Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Club Brugge have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Gent have scored away.
- Club Brugge have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 25 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 57 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 9 | 36 | 57 |
| 2 | Antwerp | 25 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 46 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 20 | 50 |
| 3 | Club Brugge | 25 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 46 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 24 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 48 |
| 4 | Anderlecht | 25 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 52 | 30 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 26 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 13 | 22 | 42 |
| 5 | Sporting Charleroi | 25 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 40 | 33 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 20 | 7 | 40 |
| 6 | Gent | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 36 | 26 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 37 |
| 7 | Mechelen | 23 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 39 | 39 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 23 | 0 | 36 |
| 8 | Cercle Brugge | 25 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 35 | 30 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 34 |
| 9 | Kortrijk | 25 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 30 | 29 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 1 | 34 |
| 10 | Genk | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 45 | 36 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 20 | 9 | 32 |
| 11 | Sint-Truiden | 25 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 26 | 36 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 16 | -10 | 28 |
| 12 | Standard Liege | 24 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 28 | 39 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 19 | -11 | 28 |
| 13 | KV Oostende | 24 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 26 | 46 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 29 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 17 | -20 | 27 |
| 14 | AS Eupen | 25 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 31 | 41 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 20 | -10 | 27 |
| 15 | OH Leuven | 23 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 31 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 21 | -7 | 27 |
| 16 | Zulte-Waregem | 24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 36 | 52 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 28 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 24 | -16 | 25 |
| 17 | RFC Seraing | 25 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 26 | 50 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 29 | -24 | 23 |
| 18 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 24 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 23 | 51 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 24 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 27 | -28 | 13 |
