Belgian Pro League · Matchday 8 Match report

Cercle Brugge 1-2 Anderlecht: Result, Match Stats and Our Prediction

Cercle Brugge

1-2Full time

Anderlecht

Saturday 10 October 2026, 14:00 UTC Jan Breydelstadion, Brugge

Our picks against the result

11 of 12 right

Result Anderlecht win40% 1-2
Double chance Cercle Brugge or Anderlecht (12)72% 1-2
Goals over/under 2.5 Over 2.554% 3 goals
More corners Anderlecht45% Level (5-5)
Yellow cards Around average 3 yellow cards · league 3.2
Yellow cards 3 yellow cards 2.5 Over67% 3.5 Under55% 4.5 Under74%
Corners Around average 10 corners · league 10.0
Corners 10 corners 9.5 Over55% 10.5 Under55% 11.5 Under65%

Match stats

Cercle Brugge Anderlecht

1 Goals 2
1 Yellow cards 2
0 Red cards 0
5 Corners 5

Goals, yellow and red cards and corners of each club.

Before kick-off

What this page showed before the match: our reasons, form, ratings and records as they were then.

Match summary

Matchday 8 of the Belgian Pro League brings Cercle Brugge vs Anderlecht to the Jan Breydelstadion on Saturday 10 October 2026, and our model calls an Anderlecht win, with the double chance Cercle Brugge or Anderlecht to win (no draw).

Why this pick?

Our model expects Anderlecht to take the points in Brugge, rating them clearly the stronger of the two this season, and their recent play backs that up: more possession than the league average, more big chances created, and clearly fewer big chances conceded. The counterweight is the home advantage Cercle Brugge hold at the Jan Breydelstadion. Cercle, though, have not won any of their seven league games and sit 16th, while Anderlecht have taken 21 of the 29 meetings since 2010. That is enough to carry the pick, even if the call is a narrow one.

Form guide

Cercle Brugge

L 2-3 at Sporting Charleroi (A) Belgian Pro League · 19 Sep
D 1-1 at OH Leuven (A) Belgian Pro League · 12 Sep
L 0-3 vs Gent (H) Belgian Pro League · 6 Sep
L 0-1 vs Lommel (H) Belgian Pro League · 29 Aug
L 0-1 at Club Brugge (A) Belgian Pro League · 23 Aug

Anderlecht

W 3-0 vs Zulte Waregem (H) Belgian Pro League · 19 Sep
L 1-2 vs Lyon (H) Europa League · 16 Sep
W 1-0 at KV Mechelen (A) Belgian Pro League · 11 Sep
D 0-0 vs Genk (H) Belgian Pro League · 6 Sep
W 1-0 vs Kortrijk (H) Belgian Pro League · 3 Sep

Last five competitive matches before kick-off, all competitions, results after 90 minutes.

Attack and defence ratings

Cercle BruggeAnderlecht

Attack 53 82 1.1 goals per match this season1.0 goals per match this season

Defence 18 88 2.0 conceded per match this season0.7 conceded per match this season

0 to 100 against this season's Belgian Pro League clubs (100 = best). The rating is our model's long-run strength before this match: it uses the last three years and counts recent matches most, so a few results do not move it at once. Under each rating: this season's actual goals per match.