📊 Form Guide
Cercle Brugge DWLLLD
Cercle Brugge enter this game following on from a 1-1 First Division A stalemate vs SV Zulte Waregem.
In that match, Cercle Brugge had 54% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Cercle Brugge was Edgaras Utkus (45'). Zulte Waregem got 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Anton Tanghe (25') was the scorer for SV Zulte Waregem.
It has not been often in recent games where Cercle Brugge have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Cercle Brugge have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 8 goals along the way.
KAA Gent WWLDDL ⚖
Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Sint-Truidense VV in First Division A competition, KAA Gent and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.
In that game, KAA Gent had 49% possession and 19 shots on goal with 4 on target. The scorer for KAA Gent was Wilfried Kanga (21'). Sint-Truiden had 14 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Arbnor Muja (59') and Keisuke Gotō (66') scored for Sint-Truidense VV.
Ivan Leko's KAA Gent have slotted home a total of 11 times throughout their most recent six matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those same clashes equals 7.
↔️ Head to head
Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 20/05/2023 shows us that Cercle Brugge have won 3 of them & KAA Gent 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 2.
A combined sum of 20 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 11 from Groen en Zwart and 9 coming from De Buffalo's . That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.
The last league contest between the two was First Division A match day 9 on 28/09/2025 when it finished Cercle Brugge 2-4 KAA Gent.
On that day, Cercle Brugge managed 50% possession and 23 attempts at goal with 8 on target. The goals were scored by Steve Ngoura (22') and Edgaras Utkus (43').
KAA Gent had 11 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. Michał Skóraś (16'), Atsuki Ito (45'), Omri Gandelman (69') and Franck Surdez (87') scored.
The referee was Bert Put.
📰 Team News: Cercle Brugge
There is just a single fitness concern for the Cercle Brugge boss Onur Çinel to contend with from an otherwise fully-primed group of players. Valy Konaté (unknown injury) is out of contention.
🗞️ Team News: KAA Gent
KAA Gent manager Ivan Leko has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Jean-Kévin Duverne (minor knock), Maksim Paskotsi (minor knock) and Hatim Es-Saoubi (minor knock) miss out here.
🔮 Prediction
We are of the inclination to think that KAA Gent and Cercle Brugge may well both score, with little between these two teams.
It’s looking like it could well end up as a draw. Therefore, we predict a hard-fought 1-1 scoreline at the end of this game.
Peter Guest, 19:01 03/12/2025