Royal Excel Mouscron v Club Brugge preview: Visitors can prove cut above

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Competition: Belgium Pro League
Competition: Sat 28.November
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Le Canonnier (10500 seats)

Struggling Royal Excel Mouscron will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Club Brugge in the upcoming league round. It’s 18th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest scored goals (6) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the the best goal difference (+18) in Pro League

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Mouscron and Club Brugge.

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Royal Excel Mouscron form and stats

Royal Excel Mouscron, who have the fewest scored goals (6) in Pro League, have collected 1 point from their Pro League home games so far after 0-1-4.

A good away victory last time out for Mouscron, who won 2-1 against Cercle Brugge (placed 9th). Heartbreak before that as Mouscron lost 1-4 at Genk's place.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Pro League game versus Sint-Truiden in only three days. This game is also played here at Stade Le Canonnier.

Mouscron have scored 1 goal here in 5 league matches, a depressing statistic. On the other hand, Mouscron have conceded 6 goals.

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Club Brugge form and stats

Club Brugge's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Club Brugge, who have the the best goal difference (+18) in Pro League, collect 13 points from their 6 away matches in the Pro League. 4 victories and 1 draw have created these points (and only 1 defeat).

Club Brugge lost away at Borussia Dortmund (0-3) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Kortrijk in the Pro League.

A new game in only four days for Club Brugge, the Champions League home match versus Zenit. Busy days.

Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 17 goals in 6 league games away this season. It's not easy to score on Brugge as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Mouscron three wins, zero draws and Club Brugge seven victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Club BruggeK. Diatta
K. Diatta
6 goals
Club BruggeH. Vanaken
H. Vanaken
5 goals
Club BruggeR. Vormer
R. Vormer
3 goals

Royal Excel Mouscron missing players

Club Brugge missing players

Royal Excel Mouscron Club Brugge
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
11 5 1 Played P 2 6 13
1 0 0 Won W 2 4 8
3 1 1 Drew D 0 1 2
7 4 0 Lost L 0 1 3
6 1 1 Scored S 10 17 29
19 6 1 Conceded C 0 5 11
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
73% 40% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 77%
36% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 83% 69%
9% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 50% 38%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 17% 15%
45% 20% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 54%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 33% 31%
55% 80% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 15%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 1.7 1.3
3 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
5.9 5.4 0 Shots (avg) S ( 13.5 11 8.1
1.9 1.8 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7.5 6 3.8
29% 11% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 47% 59%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • All of Club Brugge's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Club Brugge has the fewest conceded goals (5) away in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the most points (13) away in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the most scored goals (17) away in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the the best goal difference (+12) away in Pro League
  • Club Brugge has the the best goal difference (+18) in Pro League
  • Club Brugge have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Club Brugge have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Club Brugge have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Club Brugge have scored more than double the goals of Royal Excel Mouscron.
  • Club Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest clean sheets (0) in Pro League
  • Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest matches over the total-line (4) in Pro League
  • Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest points (1) at home in Pro League
  • Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Pro League
  • Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest scored goals (6) in Pro League
  • Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Pro League
  • Royal Excel Mouscron has the fewest scored goals in the second half (4) in Pro League
  • Royal Excel Mouscron have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Royal Excel Mouscron have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Royal Excel Mouscron have yet to win a game at home.
  • Royal Excel Mouscron haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Club Brugge 13 8 2 3 29 11 7 4 1 2 12 6 6 4 1 1 17 5 18 26
2 Genk 13 7 4 2 26 17 7 4 2 1 17 8 6 3 2 1 9 9 9 25
3 Beerschot-Wilrijk 13 8 1 4 35 31 7 6 0 1 23 14 6 2 1 3 12 17 4 25
4 Sporting Charleroi 12 7 2 3 21 11 6 4 0 2 10 4 6 3 2 1 11 7 10 23
5 Standard Liege 13 6 5 2 17 12 7 3 4 0 9 6 6 3 1 2 8 6 5 23
6 Antwerp 13 6 4 3 23 17 6 3 3 0 12 7 7 3 1 3 11 10 6 22
7 Anderlecht 13 5 6 2 23 18 6 3 3 0 10 5 7 2 3 2 13 13 5 21
8 OH Leuven 12 5 4 3 21 21 6 3 2 1 9 8 6 2 2 2 12 13 0 19
9 Cercle Brugge 13 6 0 7 20 20 6 3 0 3 12 9 7 3 0 4 8 11 0 18
10 KV Oostende 13 4 4 5 17 15 7 3 2 2 14 9 6 1 2 3 3 6 2 16
11 Gent 13 5 1 7 21 20 6 2 1 3 11 9 7 3 0 4 10 11 1 16
12 Kortrijk 13 4 4 5 18 20 6 1 2 3 11 14 7 3 2 2 7 6 -2 16
13 AS Eupen 12 2 7 3 13 19 5 1 2 2 5 9 7 1 5 1 8 10 -6 13
14 Mechelen 12 3 3 6 17 22 6 1 2 3 10 11 6 2 1 3 7 11 -5 12
15 Zulte-Waregem 13 3 2 8 16 28 7 1 1 5 8 17 6 2 1 3 8 11 -12 11
16 Sint-Truiden 12 2 4 6 14 23 6 2 2 2 7 6 6 0 2 4 7 17 -9 10
17 Waasland-Beveren 12 2 2 8 16 29 7 1 1 5 8 16 5 1 1 3 8 13 -13 8
18 Royal Excel Mouscron 11 1 3 7 6 19 5 0 1 4 1 6 6 1 2 3 5 13 -13 6

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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.