📊 Form Guide

KAA Gent

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KAA Gent will be hoping to bounce back here after a 1-0 Belgian Cup loss in their previous game against RSC Anderlecht.

Thorgan Hazard (27') scored for RSC Anderlecht.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that KAA Gent have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that KAA Gent have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 7 goals during that time. That trend isn’t assured to follow through into this next game, of course.

RSC Anderlecht

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In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring RSC Anderlecht, three or more goals have been struck. The average number of goals per match during that time is 3, with the average number of goals for RSC Anderlecht standing at 1.33.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that RSC Anderlecht:

• haven't won against KAA Gent when having played them away from home in the previous 8 matches in the league. A very poor set of away results, indeed.
• have not won away from home in their last 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 24/11/2024 shows us that KAA Gent have won 1 of these and RSC Anderlecht 5, with the number of drawn results being 0.

In all, 15 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 1 for De Buffalo's and 14 netted by Paars-wit. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.

📋 Team News: KAA Gent

It’s our opinion that De Buffalo's will possibly make use of the 5-3-2 formation for this one featuring Davy Roef, Matisse Samoise, Matties Volckaert, Maksim Paskotši, Siebe Van Der Heyden, Tiago Araújo, Tibe De Vlieger, Abdelkahar Kadri, Atsuki Ito, Hyllarion Goore and Wilfried Kanga.

📋 Team News: RSC Anderlecht

We believe Paars-wit appear most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation by sending out Colin Coosemans, Ali Maamar, Killian Sardella, Mihajlo Ilic, Moussa N'Diaye, Nathan De Cat, Nathan-Dylan Saliba, Adriano Bertaccini, Thorgan Hazard, Nilson Angulo and Mihajlo Cvetkovic.

⚡ Prediction

Our assessment here is that KAA Gent might have a difficult job to see themselves scoring against this RSC Anderlecht team who we think might be able to grind out a win.

We’re therefore tipping a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 advantage for RSC Anderlecht at the end of the 90.

A close call.

Peter Guest, 12:00 18/01/2026