KAA Gent vs KV Kortrijk Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

KAA Gent

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KAA Gent will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 0-1 First Division A victory versus Antwerp.

In that game, KAA Gent had 57% possession and 13 shots at goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for KAA Gent was Aimé Omgba (82'). Royal Antwerp had 12 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target.

Danijel Milićević's KAA Gent have hit the target 6 times in their prior six outings. At the other end, the tally of goals that have been scored against them in those same games amounts to 6.

Pre-game facts show that KAA Gent:

• haven't been beaten in the league by KV Kortrijk in their previous 6 games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 4 league matches at home.

KV Kortrijk

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KV Kortrijk will go into this encounter following a 2-0 First Division A win vs Oud-Heverlee Leuven in their last match.

In that match, KV Kortrijk had 56% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for KV Kortrijk was Thierry Ambrose (43', 62'). On the other side, Oud-Heverlee Leuven got 9 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target.

The stats don’t lie, and KV Kortrijk have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 11 goals in total. At the back, KV Kortrijk have some weaknesses to address. Such a trend might not be carried forward into this game, of course.

Their prior results show that KV Kortrijk:

• are winless against KAA Gent in games played away from home for the previous 3 league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 13 matches in the league. What a horror away run it has been.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings stretching back to 14/01/2022 reveals that these fixtures have not been kind to KV Kortrijk. They’ve not managed to get themselves any victories at all whereas KAA Gent have simply been better than them, winning in 83 per cent of those matches played.

A combined sum of 19 goals were scored between them in this period, with 14 for De Buffalo's and 5 being from De Kerels. The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The last league meeting between the two was First Division A match day 1 on 28/07/2024 which ended up with the score at KV Kortrijk 0-1 KAA Gent.

In that game, KV Kortrijk managed 35% possession and 15 shots at goal with 5 of them on target.

On the other side, KAA Gent had 8 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Andri Guðjohnsen (59') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Nathan Verboomen.

🗞️ Team News: KAA Gent

Davy Roef (Broken hand), Stefan Mitrovic (minor knock), Andrew Hjulsager (Calf injury), Archie Brown (minor knock), Tsuyoshi Watanabe (minor knock), Omri Gandelman (minor knock) and Max Dean (Cruciate ligament tear) will be missing for KAA Gent boss Danijel Milićević.

📰 Team News: KV Kortrijk

KV Kortrijk manager Bernd Storck has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Bram Lagae (Ill), Abdelkahar Kadri (Ill), Marco Ilaimaharitra (Calf injury), Marko Ilic (Broken jaw), Patrik Gunnarsson (Knock) and Haruya Fujii (Shin injury) will not be playing here.

✨ Prediction

We’re of the opinion that KAA Gent will probably get a lot of shots on goal and make them count.

However, KV Kortrijk will not find it easy to score but do we see them hitting back at some stage.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a decent 3-1 winning margin for KAA Gent when the full-time whistle blows.

Victor Martins, 11:15 12/03/2025