About Match
Cercle Brugge (14th, 2 pts) visit Gent (1st, 15 pts) with 13 points between them. Against a league average of 1.53 goals per team per game, Gent run at 2 scored and 0.4 conceded, Cercle Brugge at 1 and 2. Victory would move Cercle Brugge to 5 points and up to 13th, with other results unchanged.
Gent enter with six wins in a row, having scored in 11 consecutive games. Cercle Brugge have lost three in a row. The last-five ledger: Gent 15/15, Cercle Brugge 2/15.
36 meetings are on record — 21 won by Gent, 9 by Cercle Brugge, 6 drawn, at 3.22 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 42% of the meetings went to the host. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 64% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 56%.
Planet Group Arena in Gent, capacity 20,185, hosts the game.