Only a win will satisfy the home supporters in this Jan Breydel Stadium clash with Kortrijk, having a healthy lead on the opposition in the Pro League table.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Club Brugge and Kortrijk.
Club Brugge form and stats
12 points is a decent return from 6 Pro League games here at Jan Breydel Stadium for Club Brugge, who have the most scored goals (29) in Pro League,. The data says 3 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses.
Happy days for Club Brugge in their previous game, a Pro League match away at Zulte-Waregem (placed 8th) that ended with a 2-0 victory. In the match before that, Club Brugge hosted Standard Liège and drew the game 1-1.
The manager P. Clement will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to PSG in only four days.
Goals decide football matches and Club Brugge are scoring many of them at home; 14 on target from 6 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Club Brugge have only let in 3 goals at home.
Kortrijk form and stats
There's been little loot from Kortrijk's travels as they have only collected 3 points from 6 away games in the Pro League. Kortrijk only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 0 draws. It's all red in the travel logs of Kortrijk, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.
Kortrijk failed to get anything from their last game, a Pro League home match vs AS Eupen (placed 13th) that ended with defeat 1-2. Prior to that match, the Kortrijk manager Y. Vanderhaeghe faced defeat when travelling to Antwerp and losing 1-3.
With the home team given a winning probability of about 80% by the bookmakers, any point(s) for the visitors would be a surprise. Checking earlier matches with similar odds with Kortrijk as the away team, we found one results. Statistics from these were 0 away wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. The outsiders lost 1 of these games by at least two goals.
Kortrijk are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 6 away goals from 6 games (in the league). The Kortrijk manager Y. Vanderhaeghe has some worries about the defense as 12 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Club Brugge 7 wins, 1 draw and Kortrijk 2 victories. As for goals, 7 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 3 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  H. Vanaken 6 goals |  D. Okereke 6 goals |   I. Mboyo 6 goals |
Club Brugge missing players
Kortrijk missing players
| Club Brugge | Kortrijk | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | 7 |
| 29 | 14 | 2 | Scored | S | 2 | 6 | 22 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 7 | 12 | 22 |
| 92% | 83% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 83% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 42% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 69% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 46% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 33% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 67% | 69% |
| 67% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 8% | 17% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | 15% |
| 7.8 | 6.2 | 7.5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.7 | 5.2 |
| 3.4 | 3.8 | 3 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.8 | 3.6 |
| 1.6 | 2 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
- All of Kortrijk's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Club Brugge have not yet lost a game.
- Club Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Club Brugge have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Club Brugge have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Kortrijk have scored away.
- Club Brugge have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Club Brugge have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Kortrijk have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Kortrijk have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Kortrijk 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 | Club Brugge | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 29 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 25 | 30 |
| 2 | Standard Liège | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 27 |
| 3 | Mechelen | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 23 |
| 4 | Gent | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 22 |
| 5 | Antwerp | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 21 |
| 6 | Sporting Charleroi | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 21 |
| 7 | Genk | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 20 |
| 8 | Zulte-Waregem | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 19 |
| 9 | Royal Excel Mouscron | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 17 |
| 10 | Sint-Truiden | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 17 | -9 | 15 |
| 11 | Kortrijk | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 14 |
| 12 | Anderlecht | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -1 | 14 |
| 13 | AS Eupen | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 15 | -14 | 13 |
| 14 | KV Oostende | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -11 | 11 |
| 15 | Waasland-Beveren | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -18 | 7 |
| 16 | Cercle Brugge | 13 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 33 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 19 | -23 | 4 |