KAA Gent vs KVC Westerlo Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

KAA Gent

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KAA Gent will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 0-2 First Division A - Play-Offs success vs Sint-Truidense VV.

In that match, KAA Gent managed 40% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For KAA Gent, goals were scored by Tarik Tissoudali (44') and Stefan Mitrović (85'). For their opponents, Sint-Truiden had 17 attempts on goal with 5 on target.

Matches with KAA Gent have tended to be exciting encounters recently with plenty of scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past half dozen games alone, the sum total of 23 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 19 of these being chalked up by KAA Gent.

KVC Westerlo

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In their last fixture, KVC Westerlo drew 1-1 in the First Division A - Play-Offs match with Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

In that match, KVC Westerlo managed 52% possession and 15 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for KVC Westerlo was Ravil Tagir (24'). Oud-Heverlee Leuven got 20 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Mathieu Maertens (77') was the scorer for Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

The stats tell the story, and KVC Westerlo have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 13 goals in all. Defensively, KVC Westerlo could really do with shoring things up. We shall soon find out if that trend will end up being sustained here.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A quick look at past results between these clubs stretching back to 11/02/2023 tells us that these encounters have ended in disappointment for KVC Westerlo. They’ve not managed to register any wins at all whereas KAA Gent have dominated them, getting wins in 67% of those match-ups.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 25 in total at an average of 4.17 goals per match.

The previous league encounter featuring these sides was First Division A - Play-Offs match day 2 on 07/04/2024 when it ended KVC Westerlo 0-3 KAA Gent.

That day, KVC Westerlo had 34% possession and 3 shots at goal with 3 on target.

For their opponents, KAA Gent got 21 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Omri Gandelman (22', 92') and Tarik Tissoudali (24') scored.

The referee was Wim Smet.

ℹ️ Team News: KAA Gent

Ismaël Kandouss (minor knock) and Andrew Hjulsager (Knock) will be missing for KAA Gent gaffer Hein Vanhaezebrouck.

🗞️ Team News: KVC Westerlo

KVC Westerlo boss Bart Goor has not got a full squad to pick from. Nacer Chadli (Calf injury) and Emin Bayram (Hamstring muscle injury) are those who can’t be considered.

🔮 Prediction

In this match, KAA Gent are likely to get a lot of shots on goal and make them count.

At the same time, KVC Westerlo could well find it tough getting on the scoresheet but we can see them scoring.

Accordingly, we see a comfortable 3-1 winning score for KAA Gent at full-time.

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Victor Martins, 19:00 26/04/2024