Antwerp vs Club Brugge Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Antwerp

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Antwerp will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 1-3 First Division A - Play-Offs loss in their previous game against Club Brugge.

In that game, Antwerp had 46% possession and 15 shots on goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Antwerp was Michael Frey (19'). At the other end, Club Brugge had 8 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Hans Vanaken (49'), Jack Hendry (64') and Sargis Adamyan (66') scored for Club Brugge.

An interesting feature of recent Antwerp games is the number of results with a nil in them.

Taking their prior six clashes before this one, in 5 of them a bet on both teams scoring would've been a losing one.

Club Brugge

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For 5 of the past six games involving Club Brugge, a comparatively low number of goals have been struck between them and opposing teams. The overall average goals scored per game within that spell comes to just 1.67, with the average goals for Blauw-Zwart being 1.5. We will just have to see whether or not that trend can be sustained into this next match.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 21/03/2021 tells us that Antwerp have won 1 of these games & Club Brugge 3, with the tally of draws standing at 2.

A combined total of 13 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 5 for The Great Old and 8 belonging to Blauw-Zwart. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.17.

The previous league contest featuring these sides was First Division A - Play-Offs match day 1 on 24/04/2022 and the score finished Club Brugge 1-0 Antwerp.

On that occasion, Club Brugge managed 57% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Tajon Buchanan (37').

Antwerp had 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Erik Lambrechts.

🗞️ Team News: Antwerp

Björn Engels (Hamstring Injury), Sander Coopman (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) and Viktor Fischer (Ankle Surgery) will not be taking part for Antwerp manager Brian Priske.

ℹ️ Team News: Club Brugge

Out of a mainly available group of players, there’s just the one fitness issue for the Club Brugge gaffer Alfred Schreuder to be concerned about. Mats Rits (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) won’t be in action.

💭 Prediction

We believe that Antwerp will have a tough ask to put one past this Club Brugge side who we think will win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

Therefore, we predict a hard-fought 0-1 victory for Club Brugge at the end of the 90.

Should be interesting.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 00:30 11/05/2022