Dender 1-2 Genk: result and report

Pro League · Sunday 1 February 2026

Result

Dender 1-2 Genk

Pro League · Sunday 1 February 2026, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

Dender · Genk · Pro League predictions

Dender 1-2 Genk: match report

Dender lost to Genk 1-2 in the Pro League on Sunday 1 February 2026. The half-time score was 0-2.

Daan Heymans opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Dender's goal came from Bruny Nsimba (58'). Genk scored through Daan Heymans (3') and Daan Heymans (8').

Discipline: Dender received 5 yellow cards; Genk received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Dender were 16th on 17 points from 22 and Genk 12th on 24 points from 22. Dender went on to finish that season 16th with 25 points, and Genk 4th with 58.

Dender lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Genk in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Daan Heymans of Genk (8.8), ahead of Tobias Lawal (7.9).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Dender wins, 0 draws and 3 for Genk.

Going into the match Dender's last five read D-W-D-L-L and Genk's D-L-L-D-D.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Daan HeymansGenk · 0-1
  • 8'Goal · Daan HeymansGenk · 0-2
  • 48'Yellow card · Kobe CoolsDender
  • 58'Goal · Bruny NsimbaDender · 1-2
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Bruny NsimbaDender
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Nathan RôdesDender
  • 90+5'Yellow cardGenk
  • 90+6'Yellow cardDender
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Gauthier GallonDender

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Dender 0, draws 0, Genk 3.

Team news

Unavailable

Dender line-up (3-4-1-2)

Gauthier Gallon, Luc Marijnissen, Kobe Cools, Bryan Goncalves, Marsoni Sambu, Noah Mbamba, Malcolm Viltard, Fabio Ferraro, Roman Kvet, David Toshevski, Bruny Nsimba

Genk line-up (3-4-3)

Tobias Lawal, Mujaid Sadick, Matte Smets, Joris Kayembe, Zakaria El Ouahdi, Daan Heymans, Bryan Heynen, Yaimar Medina, Konstantinos Karetsas, Aaron Bibout, Junya Ito