📊 Form Guide

Beerschot

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Beerschot will be hoping to bounce back here after a 3-0 First Division A losing effort in their last game against KV Mechelen.

In that match, Beerschot managed 56% possession and 16 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Mechelen got 16 shots at goal with 10 on target. Ahmed Touba (41'), Benito Raman (71') and Patrick Pflücke (92') scored for KV Mechelen.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times that Beerschot haven’t conceded. In fact, Beerschot have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 8 goals in the process.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Beerschot:

• are unbeaten in their last 3 home league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 2 matches in the league.

Cercle Brugge

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Cercle Brugge will go into this meeting following on from a 2-0 Conference League win versus Hearts in their previous outing.

In that game, Cercle Brugge managed 41% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. For Cercle Brugge, the goalscorers were Malamine Efekele (40') and Gary Magnée (90'). At the other end, Hearts had 13 attempts on goal with 6 on target.

The trend of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring Cercle Brugge has become noticeable recently. Examining their last 6 meetings reveals that this has happened 6 times. During these clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal aggregate of 6 and Cercle Brugge have scored 5. In any event, we will just have to wait and see whether such a trend might be maintained in this match.

↔️ Head to head

Delving into their past head to head meetings going back to 13/01/2021 reveals that these fixtures have not been good ones for Beerschot. They’ve not managed to get themselves any wins at all whereas Cercle Brugge have dominated them, finishing as winners in 83 per cent of those ties.

17 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 4 of them from Beerschot and 13 for Groen en Zwart. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The last league match between these sides was First Division A match day 3 on 11/08/2024 which ended up with the score at Cercle Brugge 4-1 Beerschot.

On that occasion, Cercle Brugge managed 51% possession and 22 shots on goal with 8 on target. Goals were scored by Bruninho (10'), Kazeem Olaigbe (22'), Kévin Denkey (42') and Abdoul Kader Ouattara (89').

Beerschot had 4 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Simion Michez (25') scored.

The referee was Nathan Verboomen.

📰 Team News: Beerschot

There is just a single fitness concern for the Beerschot gaffer Dirk Kuijt to contend with from a near full-strength group of players. Ryan Sanusi (surgery) misses out.

It seems likely that Beerschot look set to go for a 4-4-2 formation for this one and select Nick Shinton, A. Konstantopoulos, Loïc Mbe Soh, Omar Fayed, Brian Plat, Colin Dagba, Ewan Henderson, Faisal Al-Ghamdi, Thibaud Verlinden, Marwan Al-Sahafi and Antoine Colassin.

🗞️ Team News: Cercle Brugge

Cercle Brugge manager Miron Muslic has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Nazinho (Hamstring injury), Dalangunypole Gomis (Hamstring injury), Abdoul Kader Ouattara (Hamstring muscle injury), Warleson (Knee injury) and Bruninho (Meniscus injury) will not be playing here.

We believe Groen en Zwart appear most likely to play in a 3-4-2-1 system, starting the game with Maxime Delanghe, Edgaras Utkus, Senna Miangue, Emmanuel Kakou, Gary Magnée, Lawrence Agyekum, H. van der, Flavio Nazinho, Felipe Augusto, Kévin Denkey and Thibo Somers.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that Beerschot will have their work cut out to find the net against this Cercle Brugge team who we think will likely be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

That’s why we have predicted a hard-fought 0-1 advantage for Cercle Brugge at the end of the match.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

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

Peter Guest, 14:04 01/12/2024