Belgium - Pro LeagueStarWelcome to the Turboscores match preview of the upcoming match between Cercle Brugge and Genk, taking place on Friday, 17 March 2023, at Jan Breydelstadion in Brugge.
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Cercle Brugge, Recent FormThe 2-0 away defeat to Anderlecht will not have sat easily with the Cercle Brugge squad, who would not have been pleased to squander all three points. In that game they had 39% possession and managed 7 attempts on goal, with 2 on target, compared to Anderlecht who had 18 attempts and 9 on target.
It seems pretty certain that Miron Muslic will be quite pleased with his squad's ability to score goals in recent matches, having managed 8 goals in their past 6 outings. In contrast, however, he will be concerned that their defensive qualities look a little more fragile, with 8 goals conceded in those matches and some crucial points dropped. They have recently found some good scoring form at home, hitting the net in 5 of their last 6 matches at Jan Breydelstadion. Muslic will be concerned about his leaky defence after they have failed to keep a clean sheet at home for 12 games in a row.
Whilst they have only lost 1 of their last 6 games there will be concern over the amount of points dropped with 4 draws from those games.
Having scored 4 goals in his last 6 league games for Cercle Brugge, Ayase Ueda will be looking to keep his tally up with a goal in their next outing.
Genk, Recent FormThere will be a feeling of disappointment amongst the Genk players having failed to take any points away from their recent 2-1 home defeat at the hands of Union Saint-Gilloise. They achieved 70% possession in that match and had 12 strikes at goal, with 6 hitting the target, up against Union Saint-Gilloise's tally of 13 efforts at goal, 5 of which were on target.
It's fair to say that manager Wouter Vrancken will be pretty happy with his squad's ability to find the net of late, having scored 11 goals in their last 6 matches. That said, he will also be aware there is still work to do at the back, where they have shipped 9 goals in those same matches as well as some valuable points. They are in some turmoil defensively at the moment and have been unable to record a clean sheet in 5 of their last 6 games. Given that they have scored in 13 of their away games this season, their travelling support will be feeling optimistic about a good result whenever they are on their travels.
There will be mixed feelings from Blauw-Wit, having been undefeated in their last 5 away league games, but drawn the last 2 of these games.
With 3 goals from the last 6 away outings in the league, Joseph Paintsil has given the travelling Genk support something to shout about on the road.
In the last league encounter between these sides, it was Cercle Brugge who ended up empty-handed, losing 2-1 to Genk.
Blauw-Wit will be looking to extend their current run of scoring against Cercle having scored at least 1 goal in each of their previous 11 meetings. We've seen plenty of goals from Genk when they've visited Groen en Zwart in the league, in their last 3 games they've scored a total of 9 goals, which is an average of 3 per game.
In the league, Genk has had a good run of results against Cercle, being unbeaten in their last 7 meetings.
Bryan Heynen will be looking to get on the scoresheet for Genk against Cercle in this one, having netted 4 goals in the previous 5 encounters between the two.
Cercle manager Miron Muslic has some team selection issues to consider ahead of this match. Leo Lopes (Unknown), David Sousa (Unknown) and Edgaras Utkus (Meniscus) are all currently out of contention for this game.
Wouter Vrancken has a number of injury concerns in his Genk squad to contend with: Adnane Abid (Cruciate ligament), Tolu Arokodare (Meniscus) and Luca Oyen (Cruciate ligament)
Cercle Brugge Playing at home | Genk Playing away from home | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Goals scored | 2.2 |
| 1.1 | Goals conceded | 1.2 |
| 47' | Time first goal scored | 20' |
| 42' | Time first goal conceded | 38' |
| 1.4 | Yellow cards | 1.8 |
| 0 | Red cards | 0.1 |
| 4 | Subs used | 3.9 |
| 5-1 | Biggest victory | 4-0 |
| 2-0 | Biggest defeat | 3-2 |
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