Pro League: Kortrijk - Cercle Brugge pre-match guide and stats

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 29.October
Match begins: 16:15 (UTC)
Venue: Guldensporenstadion (9399 seats)

Kortrijk - Cercle Brugge in Pro League: Stats, team lineups, tables, the latest developments and headlines. Read our comprehensive preview!

Insights:
  • Kortrijk have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Cercle Brugge have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Pro League

Both teams have had plenty of rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's have faith in that this will be an animated fixture!

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Kortrijk form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Pro League this season. Kortrijk have only managed 1 win, 1 draw and 5 losses from their games here at Guldensporenstadion. Kortrijk are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Guldensporenstadion, having lost their two previous games here.

Kortrijk's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-2 versus Westerlo (placed 6th). Midfield player Keita got a match rating of 8.35 in that game, the max score being 10. Keita hit the woodwork once, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 49 successful passes (of 55 total).

Preceding that game was the away draw at Sporting Charleroi that finished 2-2.

Kortrijk have scored {4 league goals} here from 7 matches, not a lot. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 13 goals have been conceded.

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Cercle Brugge form and stats

Cercle Brugge have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Pro League, after 2-0-5 (7 played).

Ueda (2), Gboho and Kehrer scored in Cercle's previous match, the home game against Sporting Charleroi that ended 4-1. Attacker Ueda got a player rating of 8.63 in the game. "Man of the match" Ueda scored two goals and hit one key pass.

Prior to that result Cercle Brugge won their away game at RFC Seraing. The scoreline was 1-0.

For Cercle, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - zero - four (Kortrijk wins - draws - Cercle Brugge wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Cercle BruggeA. Denkey
A. Denkey
5 goals
KortrijkF. Selemani
F. Selemani
4 goals

Kortrijk missing players

Cercle Brugge missing players

Kortrijk Cercle Brugge
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
14 7 3 Played P 1 7 14
3 1 0 Won W 1 2 5
2 1 1 Drew D 0 0 3
9 5 2 Lost L 0 5 6
12 4 1 Scored S 1 7 20
25 13 6 Conceded C 0 15 22
93% 86% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
71% 71% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 86% 79%
57% 43% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 57% 50%
29% 29% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 36%
14% 14% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 21%
57% 43% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 43% 50%
21% 14% 33% Clean Sheets C S 100% 14% 21%
29% 57% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 43% 36%
 
4.5 4.7 6.7 Corners for (avg) C F 1 4 5.1
6.7 5.7 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 1 4.6 4.5
2.3 2.6 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.7 1.9
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
9.7 10.4 13.7 Shots (avg) S ( 12 10.6 13.7
3 3.4 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.9 4
29% 17% 10% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 35% 36%
 
17.9 16.1 15.3 Shots against (avg) S A 6 13.9 11.4
4.7 4.6 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 4.9 3.9
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Cercle Brugge have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Cercle Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Cercle Brugge have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Pro League
  • Cercle Brugge have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Cercle Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Kortrijk have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.

  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 13 11 1 1 33 12 7 6 1 0 18 6 6 5 0 1 15 6 21 34
2 Antwerp 13 11 0 2 27 11 7 7 0 0 19 5 6 4 0 2 8 6 16 33
3 Club Brugge 14 9 2 3 28 14 7 5 1 1 16 6 7 4 1 2 12 8 14 29
4 Union Saint-Gilloise 14 9 2 3 29 18 7 5 1 1 12 7 7 4 1 2 17 11 11 29
5 Standard Liege 13 7 1 5 19 17 7 4 1 2 12 7 6 3 0 3 7 10 2 22
6 Westerlo 14 7 1 6 25 26 6 4 1 1 12 6 8 3 0 5 13 20 -1 22
7 OH Leuven 14 6 3 5 23 23 6 3 0 3 7 10 8 3 3 2 16 13 0 21
8 Gent 13 6 2 5 23 16 6 3 1 2 12 8 7 3 1 3 11 8 7 20
9 Cercle Brugge 14 5 3 6 20 22 7 3 3 1 13 7 7 2 0 5 7 15 -2 18
10 Sint-Truiden 14 4 5 5 12 15 7 2 2 3 7 9 7 2 3 2 5 6 -3 17
11 Mechelen 14 5 2 7 21 25 8 4 1 3 15 13 6 1 1 4 6 12 -4 17
12 Anderlecht 13 5 1 7 21 16 7 3 1 3 11 7 6 2 0 4 10 9 5 16
13 Sporting Charleroi 14 5 1 8 20 25 7 2 1 4 11 14 7 3 0 4 9 11 -5 16
14 AS Eupen 14 4 0 10 15 29 7 2 0 5 8 14 7 2 0 5 7 15 -14 12
15 RFC Seraing 13 3 2 8 13 22 6 0 1 5 1 10 7 3 1 3 12 12 -9 11
16 KV Oostende 13 3 2 8 13 25 6 2 0 4 6 13 7 1 2 4 7 12 -12 11
17 Zulte-Waregem 13 3 2 8 15 28 7 2 0 5 10 20 6 1 2 3 5 8 -13 11
18 Kortrijk 14 3 2 9 12 25 7 1 1 5 4 13 7 2 1 4 8 12 -13 11

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The First Division A is the top league of the football pyramid in Belgium, founded in 1895. It was earlier known as the Belgian Pro League. The season runs from July to May with 16 teams each playing 30 fixtures. The top six in the league table then play a championship playoff, the bottom team is relegated and places #7 to #15 have a Europa League playoff.