It's advantage Gent at this point, with their 5th spot in the Pro League table and anticipating the visit of Sporting Charleroi (who are sitting at 11th).
- Gent have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sporting Charleroi have the most points from losing position (12) 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.
Gent form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at GHELAMCO-arena as Gent have scored 18 goals to get 20 points from 10 games. The overall stats in the Pro League are 6-2-2 (wins-draws-losses).
Gent's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Kortrijk (placed 15th). The home side are looking to build on that result. The forward Cuypers was declared "man of the match" for Gent with a rating of 8.61/10. Cuypers scored two goals and hit two key passes.
Before that, a loss in the away fixture against Union Saint-Gilloise in the Belgian Cup.
There will be little rest for Gent after this match as they are travelling to Sint-Truiden for a Pro League game in only three days.
A decent goal production from Gent in their home games so far, with 18 goals from 10 league matches.
Sporting Charleroi form and stats
4-0-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sporting Charleroi in their Pro League matches away.
Sporting Charleroi are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the fixture against Cercle Brugge (placed 10th). Hosseinzadeh came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Cercle Brugge last time out, making the manager Mazzù feel like a tactical genius. The attacker Mbenza got a match rating of 8.25 in that game. Mbenza scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Preceding that game was the away victory against AS Eupen with the score of 2-1.Charleroi have another game that requires travelling in just three days, a Pro League match vs Club Brugge. A grim fixture list for the visitors!
Sporting Charleroi find the net regularly in their away games. 12 goals from 9 away fixtures in the league. Sporting Charleroi struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 16 goals conceded from these games. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
The two teams involved met each other before this season: Sporting Charleroi - Gent 2-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Gent victories, one draw and five Sporting Charleroi wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Cuypers 11 goals |   D. Heymans 5 goals |  H. Hong 4 goals |
Gent missing players
Sporting Charleroi missing players
| Gent | Sporting Charleroi | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 20 |
| 10 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 34 | 18 | 6 | Scored | S | 1 | 12 | 26 |
| 21 | 10 | 6 | Conceded | C | 5 | 16 | 32 |
| 95% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 85% | 90% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 65% |
| 55% | 60% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 67% | 65% |
| 25% | 10% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 44% | 45% |
| 5% | 10% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 33% | 20% |
| 50% | 60% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 67% | 65% |
| 35% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 22% | 20% |
| 20% | 10% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 11% | 20% |
| 6.4 | 6.7 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.7 | 4.4 |
| 3.8 | 3.7 | 5.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 5.4 | 4.7 |
| 1.6 | 1.5 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13.8 | 15.3 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 9.9 | 10.9 |
| 4.8 | 5.5 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3.7 | 4 |
| 35% | 33% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 36% | 34% |
| 9.6 | 8 | 11.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 12.9 | 11.3 |
| 3.3 | 2.5 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 4.8 | 4.6 |
- Gent have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sporting Charleroi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sporting Charleroi have the most points from losing position (12) in Pro League
- Sporting Charleroi 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 | Genk | 20 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 49 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 32 | 52 |
| 2 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 43 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 15 | 20 | 45 |
| 3 | Antwerp | 20 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 35 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 39 |
| 4 | Club Brugge | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 37 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 35 |
| 5 | Gent | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 34 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 34 |
| 6 | Standard Liege | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 31 |
| 7 | Westerlo | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 39 | 35 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 4 | 30 |
| 8 | Sint-Truiden | 20 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 30 |
| 9 | OH Leuven | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 35 | 31 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 17 | 4 | 29 |
| 10 | Cercle Brugge | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 19 | -2 | 26 |
| 11 | Sporting Charleroi | 19 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 26 | 32 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 16 | -6 | 25 |
| 12 | Anderlecht | 20 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 28 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 15 | -1 | 24 |
| 13 | Mechelen | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 27 | 34 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 17 | -7 | 22 |
| 14 | AS Eupen | 20 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 26 | 42 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 24 | -16 | 19 |
| 15 | Kortrijk | 20 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 19 | 37 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 19 | -18 | 18 |
| 16 | KV Oostende | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 22 | 44 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 27 | -22 | 17 |
| 17 | Zulte-Waregem | 20 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 25 | 43 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 28 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 15 | -18 | 16 |
| 18 | RFC Seraing | 20 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 19 | 36 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 20 | -17 | 15 |
