Jupiler Pro League WON 0–3
Sun, Sep 6 · 13:30 · Jan Breydel Stadion
Cercle Brugge Home
VS
Gent Away
Cercle Brugge vs Gent — Jupiler Pro League
Tipster's pick Over 1.5 Goals
Value Fair · 2/5
Odds 1.22 Odds via Bet365
Our estimate79%
This price needs82%
Expert analysis

Goals Expected as Cercle Host Attacking Gent

Cercle Brugge have struggled to keep clean sheets at home where they regularly concede multiple times. Gent travel with strong attacking output on the road and have maintained a strong recent run of results. Past meetings between these sides have produced plenty of goals in most encounters. Cercle enter the game after a mixed set of results that saw them leak opportunities. Gent have created consistent threats while limiting opponents effectively in their recent wins. The combination of open styles and historical patterns points toward an open contest with several scoring chances likely. Both teams have averaged more than a goal per game in their respective fixtures.

AcePredictor Analysis by AcePredictor 72.6% win rate
Result
0–3 WON

Our pick “Over 1.5 Goals” at odds 1.22 won — final score 0–3.

Match timeline
  1. First half
  2. Emmanuel Kakou Own goal 21'
  3. Second half
  4. Erick Nunes ↓ Lucas Michal 61'
  5. László Bénes ↓ Michel Ange Balikwisha 67'
  6. El Hadji Seck ↓ Momodou Sonko 67'
  7. Lazare Amani 70'
  8. Krys-Anthony Madou Kouassi ↓ Lazare Amani 72'
  9. Babatunde Jimoh Akinsola ↓ Emmanuel Kakou 72'
  10. Tibe De Vlieger Penalty 77'
  11. Leonardo Da Silva Lopes ↓ Mathias Delorge 78'
  12. Royer Caicedo ↓ Valy Konaté 81'
  13. Abdoul Kader Ouattara ↓ Steve Ngoura 82'
  14. Abdoul Ayinde ↓ Tiago Araújo 89'
  15. Maksim Paskotsi ↓ Matties Volckaert 89'
  16. El Hadji Seck assist Tibe De Vlieger 90+2'
This season
Cercle Brugge Gent
Over 2.5 goals 25% 0%
Clean sheet 0% 50%
Failed to score 50% 0%
Scored per game 1.3 1.8
Conceded per game 1.8 0.5
Scored home / away 1.5 / 1.0 1.7 / 2.0

Across 4 and 4 matches played this season.

League table position
# Team PWDLPts
2 CLU Club Brugge KV 5 4 0 1 12
3 GEN Gent ▲ 4 4 0 0 12
4 UNI Union St. Gilloise 4 3 1 0 10
5 ZUL Zulte Waregem 4 2 2 0 8
6 STA Standard Liege 4 2 2 0 8
7 GEN Genk 4 2 1 1 7
8 LOM Lommel United 5 2 1 2 7
9 ANT Antwerp 4 2 1 1 7
10 AND Anderlecht 4 2 0 2 6
11 STT St. Truiden 4 1 2 1 5
12 SKB SK Beveren 4 1 0 3 3
13 CER Cercle Brugge ▲ 4 0 2 2 2
14 KVM KV Mechelen 4 0 2 2 2
Recent form · last 5 finished matches
Cercle Brugge DDDLL
D @ Monaco 2–2 Jul 31
D @ Standard Liege 2–2 Aug 8
D vs St. Truiden 3–3 Aug 14
L @ Club Brugge KV 0–1 Aug 23
L vs Lommel United 0–1 Aug 29
Gent WDWWW
W @ RAAL La Louvière 2–1 Aug 16
D vs Hibernian 0–0 Aug 20
W @ Hibernian 3–2 Aug 27
W vs Club Brugge KV 2–1 Aug 30
W vs OH Leuven 1–0 Sep 3
Goals trend · last 5 matches
Cercle Brugge
Scored 1.4 avg
2 2 3 0 0
Conceded 1.8 avg
2 2 3 1 1
Gent
Scored 1.6 avg
2 0 3 2 1
Conceded 0.8 avg
1 0 2 1 0
Head-to-head · last meetings
5 Cercle Brugge
2 Draws
3 Gent
Feb 2026 Gent 0–1 Cercle Brugge Cercle Brugge
Dec 2025 Cercle Brugge 1–3 Gent Gent
Sep 2025 Cercle Brugge 2–4 Gent Gent
Dec 2024 Gent 1–1 Cercle Brugge Draw
Sep 2024 Cercle Brugge 2–1 Gent Cercle Brugge

Over 2.5 goals in 7 of the last 10 meetings.

Confirmed lineups
Cercle Brugge 3-4-3
  • 1 G. Coucke G
  • 2 I. Diakité D
  • 5 Emmanuel Kakou D
  • 24 G. Kondo D
  • 15 G. Magnée M
  • 42 L. Mondele M
  • 10 L. Amani M
  • 12 V. Konaté M
  • 9 S. Ngoura F
  • 22 L. Michal F
  • 71 V. Martens F
Bench B. Akinsola, R. Caicedo, Erick, K. Kouassi, B. Langenbick, Y. Lienard, H. Van der Bruggen, Ilian Temperman, Abdoul Ouattara

L. Friis

Gent 3-4-2-1
  • 33 D. Roef G
  • 5 M. Ngom D
  • 16 C. Burgess D
  • 44 S. Van der Heyden D
  • 57 M. Volckaert M
  • 17 M. Delorge-Knieper M
  • 27 T. De Vlieger M
  • 20 Tiago Araújo M
  • 7 M. Balikwisha M
  • 11 M. Sonko M
  • 47 J. Y. Vergara Ortega F
Bench A. Omgba, M. Paskotši, K. Peersman, E. Seck, Leonardo Lopes, A. Kadri, L. Bénes, A. Ayindé

R. Demil