📊 Form Guide

Cercle Brugge

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Cercle Brugge will be hoping for a better result following a 3-1 First Division A - Play-Offs defeat last time out to Sint-Truidense VV.

In that match, Cercle Brugge had 57% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Cercle Brugge was Ibrahim Diakité (44'). For their opponents, Sint-Truiden got 17 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Adriano Bertaccini (17', 59') and Bilal Brahimi (41') scored for Sint-Truidense VV.

It has been all too rare in recent times that Cercle Brugge have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Cercle Brugge have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 12 goals during that time.

Sint-Truidense VV

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Demonstrating their fondness for high-scoring matches, we’ve had goals 21 times in the previous six games in which Sint-Truidense VV have played, making it an average of 3.5 goals for each fixture. Their opponents have managed 9 of this grand total. It will be interesting to see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

↔️ Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels dating back to 27/08/2023, neither club has come out on top overall with Cercle Brugge winning 2 of those games, Sint-Truidense VV 2 and 2 being draws in regulation time.

In all, 16 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 9 from Groen en Zwart and 7 netted by De Kanaries. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The previous league encounter featuring these sides was First Division A - Play-Offs match day 3 on 12/04/2025 when the final score was Sint-Truidense VV 3-1 Cercle Brugge.

That time, Sint-Truidense VV had 43% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 8 on target. The scorers were Adriano Bertaccini (17', 59') and Bilal Brahimi (41').

For their opponents, Cercle Brugge had 8 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Ibrahim Diakité (44') was the scorer.

The referee was Bert Put.

ℹ️ Team News: Cercle Brugge

Senna Miangue (Knee surgery), Dalangunypole Gomis (Hamstring injury) and Abdoul Kader Ouattara (Broken leg) won’t be playing for Cercle Brugge gaffer Jimmy De Wulf.

In our view, Groen en Zwart will probably line up in a 4-3-3 formation this time, beginning the first half with Maxime Delanghe, Ibrahim Diakité, Edgaras Utkus, Lucas Perrin, Christiaan Ravych, Erick Nunes, Lawrence Agyekum, H. van der, Thibo Somers, Steve Ngoura and Flavio Nazinho.

ℹ️ Team News: Sint-Truidense VV

Sint-Truidense VV manager Felice Mazzù has multiple availability issues to deal with. Shogo Taniguchi (Achilles tendon rupture) and Isaías Delpupo (Ankle injury) will not be playing here.

There’s a good chance that De Kanaries appear most likely to utilise a 3-4-2-1 lineup, going with Leo Kokubo, Rein Van Helden, Visar Musliu, Loïc Lapoussin, Louis Patris, Joel Chima Fujita, Rihito Yamamoto, Ryoya Ogawa, Billal Brahimi, Adriano Bertaccini and Didier Lamkel Ze.

🔮 Prediction

In this game, Sint-Truidense VV are dangerous enough to breach the defence of this Cercle Brugge side, although it is unlikely to be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re predicting a very close game with a 2-1 victory for Cercle Brugge after 90 minutes. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Peter Guest, 18:00 26/04/2025