Club Brugge vs Charleroi Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Club Brugge

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Club Brugge will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 2-1 First Division A defeat in their last game at the hands of KAA Gent.

In that match, Club Brugge had 59% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. The scorer for Club Brugge was Hans Vanaken (43'). Gent got 14 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Hyeon-Seok Hong (25', 49') scored for KAA Gent.

Matches featuring Club Brugge have usually been absorbing encounters recently with plenty of scoring being the norm. Over their past half dozen clashes, a grand total of 29 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 4.83 goals per game) with 22 of these belonging to Club Brugge.

Coming into this clash, Club Brugge are unbeaten in the league by Charleroi in their last 5 games.

Charleroi

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In their last fixture, Charleroi drew 1-1 in the First Division A match with Sint-Truidense VV.

In that match, Charleroi managed 45% possession and 18 shots on goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Charleroi was Oday Dabbagh (80'). At the other end, Sint-Truiden had 8 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Aboubakary Koita (89') scored for Sint-Truidense VV.

The stats tell the story, and Charleroi have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 7 goals in total. Defensively, Charleroi just haven’t been too solid at all. Despite that, we must now wait to see whether that trend will continue on in this match or not.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Charleroi:

• have not won against Club Brugge when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 08/08/2020 tells us that Club Brugge have won 3 of these & Charleroi 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 2.

14 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 9 for Blauw-Zwart and 5 for Les Zèbres. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.33.

The last league fixture featuring these clubs was First Division A match day 22 on 22/01/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Club Brugge 2-2 Charleroi.

That time, Club Brugge had 53% possession and 10 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorers were Brandon Mechele (16' Own goal), Noa Lang (45') and Andreas Skov Olsen (50').

For their opponents, Charleroi got 9 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Youssouph Badji (13') scored.

The match was refereed by Jonathan Lardot.

📋 Team News: Club Brugge

Chemsdine Talbi (Torn Knee Ligament), Josef Bursik (Torn Knee Ligament), Bjorn Meijer (Abdominal muscles injury) and Casper Nielsen (Hip Injury) are unavailable for Club Brugge manager Ronny Deila.

📰 Team News: Charleroi

Charleroi boss Felice Mazzù has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Nadhir Benbouali (Cruciate Ligament Rupture), Jules Van Cleemput (Tendonitis), Ken Nkuba (Meniscal Injury) and Stefan Knezevic (Knee Injury) are not able to play.

💭 Prediction

In this game, Club Brugge can and should be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

At the other end, Charleroi could well struggle to get a goal of their own but we do fancy them converting at least once here.

Our selection here is for a comfortable 3-1 margin for Club Brugge at full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 08:12 13/09/2023