Gent 0-1 Cercle Brugge: result and report
Pro League · Friday 20 February 2026
Result
Gent 0-1 Cercle Brugge
Pro League · Friday 20 February 2026, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-1
Gent 0-1 Cercle Brugge: match report
Gent were beaten by Cercle Brugge 0-1 in the Pro League on Friday 20 February 2026. It was 0-1 at half-time.
The only goal came from Dante Vanzeir of Cercle Brugge in the 45th minute.
Discipline: Gent received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Cercle Brugge received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Gent were 5th on 36 points from 25 and Cercle Brugge 15th on 24 points from 25. Gent went on to finish that season 7th with 52 points, and Cercle Brugge 13th with 41.
Gent lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Cercle Brugge in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Nazinho of Cercle Brugge (8.0), level with Dante Vanzeir (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Gent win, 1 draw and 3 for Cercle Brugge.
Going into the match Gent's last five read W-L-D-W-W and Cercle Brugge's L-W-L-D-W.
Key events
- 14'Yellow card · Nazinho
- 45+1'Goal · Dante Vanzeir
- 52'Red card · Hatim Es-Saoubi
- 58'Yellow card · Emmanuel Kakou
- 62'Missed penalty · Gary Magnée
- 85'Yellow card · Ibrahima Diaby
- 86'Yellow card · Edan Diop
Head-to-head
Team news
Gent line-up (4-2-3-1)
Davy Roef, Daiki Hashioka, Maksim Paskotsi, Matties Volckaert, Tiago Araújo, Atsuki Ito, Leonardo Lopes, Michal Skoras, Abdelkahar Kadri, Momodou Sonko, Max Dean
Cercle Brugge line-up (4-3-1-2)
Warleson, Gary Magnée, Emmanuel Kakou, Christiaan Ravych, Nazinho, Lawrence Agyekum, Hannes Van Der Bruggen, Edan Diop, Pieter Gerkens, Dante Vanzeir, Oluwaseun Victor Adewumi