Gent 2-5 Genk: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 9 March 2017
Result
Gent 2-5 Genk
Europa League · Thursday 9 March 2017, 20:05 UTC · half-time 1-4
Gent 2-5 Genk: match report
Gent were beaten by Genk 2-5 in the Europa League on Thursday 9 March 2017. It was 1-4 at half-time.
Ruslan Malinovskyi opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Gent's goals came from Samuel Kalu (27') and Kalifa Coulibaly (61'). Genk scored through Ruslan Malinovskyi (21'), Omar Colley (33'), Ally Samatta (41'), Jere Uronen (45+1') and Ally Samatta (72').
Discipline: Gent received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card; Genk received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Gent were 6th on 22 points from 12 and Genk 4th on 24 points from 14. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Gent lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Genk in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ally Samatta of Genk (8.5), ahead of Omar Colley (8.3).
Going into the match Gent's last five read D-W-W-D-L and Genk's W-D-W-W-L.
Key events
- 20'Yellow card · Anderson Esiti
- 21'Goal · Ruslan Malinovskyi
- 27'Goal · Samuel Kalu
- 33'Goal · Omar Colley
- 41'Goal · Ally Samatta
- 45+1'Goal · Jere Uronen
- 59'Yellow card · Kalifa Coulibaly
- 61'Goal · Kalifa Coulibaly
- 68'Missed penalty · J. Perbet
- 72'Goal · Ally Samatta
- 84'Second yellow · Anderson Esiti
- 89'Yellow card · Ibrahim Rabiu
- 89'Yellow card · Ibrahim Rabiu
Team news
Gent line-up (3-4-1-2)
Lovre Kalinić, Samuel Gigot, Stefan Mitrovic, Rami Gershon, Kenny Saief, Samuel Kalu, Louis Verstraete, Anderson Esiti, Kalifa Coulibaly, Thomas Matton, Jérémy Perbet
Genk line-up (4-2-3-1)
Mathew Ryan, Jakub Brabec, Omar Colley, Jere Uronen, Timothy Castagne, Jean-Paul Boëtius, Ruslan Malinovskyi, Siebe Schrijvers, Alejandro Pozuelo, Sander Berge, Ally Samatta