Most people believe in Gent in this game vs Zulte-Waregem, but the visitors will battle to the end. Here's the Tipsway match preview!
- Gent have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Pro League
- Zulte-Waregem is in the worst form (0-2-4)
There have been little to rest for the team playing at home, as they had a Europa Conference League match only three days earlier. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Molde.
Gent form and stats
1-1-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Pro League numbers at home for Gent so far this season.
The Gent manager Vanhaezebrouck and his players return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Molde in the Europa Conference League. Goalkeeper Nardi got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.03 out of ten. Nardi topped it up with a clean sheet.
Heartbreak before that as Gent lost 1-2 at Sporting Charleroi's place.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Gent home games with this odds we find 9 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 7 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 6 matches were won by at least two goals.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Shamrock Rovers are coming to town in four days.
Gent has scored 4 league goals at home this season, in 3 matches. Gent's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 4 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Zulte-Waregem form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Pro League for Zulte-Waregem with 2 draws and 1 loss from their first 3 attempts. Two points from the last two away games for Zulte-Waregem, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
Zulte-Waregem failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Union Saint-Gilloise (placed 5th) that ended with defeat 1-3. Midfielder Rommens was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.01. Rommens hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A 1-1 draw at Cercle Brugge's stadium before that.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Zulte-Waregem played away with similar odds. This revealed 8 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 1 were draw and the home team won as expected 7 times.
Will both teams score? This side's latest statistics suggest that, having played 5 league games in a row with one or more goals from each side.
The visitors have scored 2 goals from 3 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - two - two (Gent wins - draws - Zulte-Waregem wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Cuypers 4 goals |  H. Hong 2 goals |  A. Fadera 2 goals |
Gent missing players
Zulte-Waregem missing players
| Gent | Zulte-Waregem | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 11 | 4 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 86% |
| 71% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 43% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 43% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 71% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 14% |
| 6.3 | 6.3 | 10 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.7 | 4.9 |
| 4 | 5 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5.3 | 4.6 |
| 1.6 | 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14.3 | 14.3 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 9.7 | 11.7 |
| 5 | 5 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 4.1 |
| 31% | 27% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 17% | 24% |
| 9.3 | 8.7 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 21.3 | 15.4 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 4.1 |
- All of Gent's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Gent have scored in all their matches so far.
- Gent have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Pro League
- Gent have the most points from losing position (7) in Pro League
- Gent haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Zulte-Waregem have yet to win a game away.
- Zulte-Waregem haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Zulte-Waregem is in the worst form (0-2-4)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Antwerp | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 21 |
| 2 | Genk | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 16 |
| 3 | Club Brugge | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 16 |
| 4 | OH Leuven | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 13 |
| 6 | Sporting Charleroi | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| 7 | Gent | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| 8 | Anderlecht | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 9 | Sint-Truiden | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 | Standard Liege | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 10 |
| 11 | Mechelen | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 12 | Kortrijk | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 7 |
| 13 | Westerlo | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -4 | 6 |
| 14 | KV Oostende | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 6 |
| 15 | AS Eupen | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -6 | 6 |
| 16 | RFC Seraing | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | -7 | 6 |
| 17 | Zulte-Waregem | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -6 | 5 |
| 18 | Cercle Brugge | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -8 | 5 |
