Gent - RFC Seraing. 6th position welcomes 17th position. The ball is round - get a comprehensive preview here!
- Gent have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- RFC Seraing have the fewest scored goals (26) in Pro League
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Gent form and stats
The story so far in the Pro League for Gent at their home stadium (GHELAMCO-arena) is 7 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
Gent enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at AS Eupen's place. The match ended 1-0 with Depoitre scoring. Midfielder Castro-Montes was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.11 (out of ten) in that game. Castro-Montes hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times.
In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Club Brugge.Gent 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 eight matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won six, drew one and lost one.
There will be little rest for Gent after this match as they are travelling to Standard Liege for a Pro League game in only four days.
Gent have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at GHELAMCO-arena with 25 goals in 13 league matches. Gent have conceded 15 in these home matches.
RFC Seraing form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for RFC Seraing so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 2-0-11 (win-draw-lose). It's all red in the travel logs of RFC Seraing, having lost five matches in a row as the visiting team.
Seraing aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 303 league minutes without a goal. Maziz was the last player to find the net.
This match can not go any worse than the last one, the home defeat versus Antwerp with 0-1 on the scoreboard. Attacker Maziz got a player rating of 7.41 in the game. "Man of the match" Maziz hit three key passes and had 29 successful passes (of 32 total).
Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting Sporting Charleroi's place.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where RFC Seraing played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected four times.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Pro League trip to Zulte-Waregem.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting RFC Seraing as they have only managed to score 11 times from 13 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. For Seraing, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net. RFC Seraing has visited these top teams five times, and 4 of 5 has ended with 2 goals or more!
Head 2 Head
The duelists have fought previously this season: RFC Seraing - Gent 0-0. Previous two meetings involving these sides: Gent won one, RFC Seraing were winners in zero and we saw one draw. one game with more than 2,5 goals, one match with less than 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  T. Tissoudali 11 goals |   G. Mikautadze 8 goals |  L. Depoitre 7 goals |
Gent missing players
RFC Seraing missing players
| Gent | RFC Seraing | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 27 | 13 | 4 | Played | P | 5 | 13 | 27 |
| 12 | 7 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 5 | 11 | 18 |
| 39 | 25 | 8 | Scored | S | 5 | 11 | 26 |
| 27 | 15 | 4 | Conceded | C | 14 | 31 | 53 |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 63% | 85% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 81% |
| 44% | 54% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 80% | 69% | 59% |
| 22% | 38% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 31% | 33% |
| 11% | 15% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 40% | 15% | 19% |
| 48% | 62% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 46% | 41% |
| 33% | 23% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 30% | 15% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 54% | 52% |
| 6.5 | 7.3 | 7.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 4 | 4.5 |
| 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 6.2 | 5.2 |
| 2.1 | 1.7 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 15.1 | 16.9 | 21 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.4 | 9.6 | 10.9 |
| 5.4 | 6.5 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 2.6 | 3.4 |
| 27% | 29% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 32% | 28% |
| 9.6 | 9.3 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18.8 | 15.2 | 13 |
| 3.4 | 3.7 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7.2 | 5.9 | 5.4 |
- All of RFC Seraing's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Gent have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Gent have scored at least twice as many goals at home as RFC Seraing have scored away.
- Gent haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- RFC Seraing have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- RFC Seraing have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- RFC Seraing have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- RFC Seraing have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Pro League
- RFC Seraing have the fewest scored goals (11) away in Pro League
- RFC Seraing have the fewest scored goals (26) in Pro League
- RFC Seraing have the fewest scored goals in the second half (14) in Pro League
- RFC Seraing have the the worst goal difference (-20) away in Pro League
- RFC Seraing haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 | 28 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 62 | 22 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 9 | 40 | 63 |
| 2 | Club Brugge | 28 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 52 | 33 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 27 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 19 | 19 | 54 |
| 3 | Antwerp | 28 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 48 | 30 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 18 | 53 |
| 4 | Anderlecht | 28 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 60 | 32 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 32 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 28 | 14 | 28 | 51 |
| 5 | Mechelen | 27 | 14 | 3 | 10 | 48 | 46 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 28 | 2 | 45 |
| 6 | Gent | 27 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 39 | 27 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 43 |
| 7 | Sporting Charleroi | 28 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 42 | 38 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 22 | 4 | 43 |
| 8 | Genk | 28 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 54 | 41 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 22 | 24 | 13 | 41 |
| 9 | Cercle Brugge | 28 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 40 | 34 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 18 | 6 | 38 |
| 10 | Sint-Truiden | 28 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 32 | 37 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 17 | -5 | 37 |
| 11 | Kortrijk | 28 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 37 | 34 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 37 |
| 12 | OH Leuven | 27 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 39 | 44 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 24 | -5 | 36 |
| 13 | KV Oostende | 28 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 28 | 52 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 32 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 20 | -24 | 31 |
| 14 | Standard Liege | 27 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 29 | 43 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -14 | 29 |
| 15 | AS Eupen | 28 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 33 | 49 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 25 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 24 | -16 | 27 |
| 16 | Zulte-Waregem | 28 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 37 | 61 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 30 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 31 | -24 | 26 |
| 17 | RFC Seraing | 27 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 26 | 53 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 31 | -27 | 23 |
| 18 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 27 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 27 | 57 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 25 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 32 | -30 | 16 |
