Cercle Brugge vs Gent Predictions

• Both teams scored in 11 of Gent’s league games this season, a joint second league-high.
• Cercle Brugge at least found the net in 75% of their home league games.
• Only Club Brugge scored in both halves more often than Gent this season.

An emotional afternoon in Brugge

It is sure to be an emotional afternoon in Brugge as Cercle Brugge take to the field for the first time following the loss of their 28 year old goalkeeper, Miguel van Damme, to leukaemia during the week.

Currently unbeaten in four of their last five games, Cercle Brugge are still well in the fight to sneak into the Conference League group come the end of the regular season, though a 5-0 defeat last time out hampered those ambitions somewhat.

Four of the last seven H2H meetings between the sides played in Brugge saw both teams score, while Brugge are without a clean sheet in three of their last five home league games, suggesting we could see an end-to-end encounter here.

Gent are on a roll

Currently on a run of seven straight league victories, Gent are seeking a eighth consecutive victory, one that would match their longest winning streak of top-flight games since the turn of the millennium!

With both sides having great motivation for the victory, we think that backing both teams to score is the way to go here.

For smaller stakes, we predict that Gent could just about edge it by a 2-1 scoreline as manager Hein Vanhaezebrouck seeks to strengthen his solid personal H2H record with Cercle Brugge (W15, D2, L4).

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