Gent greet Sporting Charleroi for another interesting Pro League fixture here at GHELAMCO-arena.
- Gent have the most points (7) at home in Pro League
- Sporting Charleroi have not yet lost a game.
Both participants have had enough rest since their previous game. Let's aim for an energetic match!
Gent form and stats
Seven points from three Pro League home games is a great start for Gent, who are hoping to build on that form here at GHELAMCO-arena. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Gent after consecutive victories at their own ground.
A nice win for Gent last time playing, versus Club Brugge. That was also a home game and the match ended 6-1 with Roman Bezus, Núrio Fortuna, Laurent Depoitre, Julien De Sart and Tarik Tissoudali scoring for the victors. Núrio Fortuna (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.82/10. Fortuna scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled passed the opponent 2 of 3 times. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Gent played a great game against Club Brugge and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Ahead of that match, Gent won a home game hosting Mechelen (2-0).The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Gent's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played nine games, won six matches, drawn three and lost zero.
It's goals goals goals for Gent who have scored 10 goals from 3 league home games. Gent's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 3 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Sporting Charleroi form and stats
Things could have gone better for Sporting Charleroi in their Pro League away matches, but 5 points from 3 games is all right. Charleroi has drawn their two previous away games.
Shamar Nicholson (3) and Ryota Morioka (2) scored in Charleroi's previous match, the home game against Beerschot-Wilrijk that ended 5-2. Midfielder Ryota Morioka was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 9.64. Morioka scored two goals, hit four key passes, dribled passed the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 68 successful passes (of 77 total). A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Sporting Charleroi, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun? It's hard not to mention Shamar Nicholson's lethal finishing against Beerschot-Wilrijk. three goals were a big reason for the important victory.
Before that, Charleroi travelled to Zulte-Waregem and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Charleroi playing away, we found two games. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and two home wins.
Sporting Charleroi have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 6 goals from 3 away matches. 3 goals have been conceded by Charleroi in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Gent four wins, one draw and Sporting Charleroi five victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Nicholson 4 goals |  A. Zaroury 3 goals |   N. Matias Fortuna 2 goals |
Gent missing players
Sporting Charleroi missing players
| Gent | Sporting Charleroi | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 10 | 6 | Scored | S | 5 | 6 | 12 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 60% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 40% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 33% |
| 20% | 33% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 60% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 67% | 67% |
| 20% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 33% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 7 | 7 | 1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.7 | 6.3 |
| 4.6 | 5.3 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8.5 | 8 | 5.8 |
| 1.4 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1 | 1.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16.8 | 17.7 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.5 | 15.3 | 17.2 |
| 5.8 | 7.7 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 6.7 | 6.7 |
| 38% | 43% | 86% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 45% | 30% | 30% |
- All of Gent's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Sporting Charleroi's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Gent have not yet lost a game at home.
- Gent have the most points (7) at home in Pro League
- Gent have the most scored goals (10) at home in Pro League
- Gent have the the best goal difference (+7) at home in Pro League
- Gent haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sporting Charleroi have not yet lost a game.
- Sporting Charleroi have scored in all their away matches so far.
| 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 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 2 | AS Eupen | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | Club Brugge | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| 4 | Sporting Charleroi | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| 5 | Genk | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | Kortrijk | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | Standard Liège | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 10 |
| 8 | KV Oostende | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | -3 | 9 |
| 9 | RFC Seraing | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -3 | 9 |
| 10 | Zulte-Waregem | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | -1 | 8 |
| 11 | Gent | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 |
| 12 | Anderlecht | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 13 | Mechelen | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 14 | Sint-Truiden | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 7 |
| 15 | Antwerp | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 16 | Cercle Brugge | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 5 |
| 17 | OH Leuven | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | -7 | 4 |
| 18 | Beerschot-Wilrijk | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | -9 | 1 |