Mechelen 2-3 Cercle Brugge: result and report
Pro League · Saturday 22 August 2020
Result
Mechelen 2-3 Cercle Brugge
Pro League · Saturday 22 August 2020, 16:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Mechelen 2-3 Cercle Brugge: match report
Mechelen were beaten by Cercle Brugge 2-3 in the Pro League on Saturday 22 August 2020. It was 1-0 at half-time.
W. Togui opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Mechelen's goals came from W. Togui (37') and A. Vranckx (64'). Cercle Brugge scored through Iké Ugbo (54'), Dino Hotic (57') and Thibo Somers (80').
Discipline: Mechelen received 7 yellow cards; Cercle Brugge received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Mechelen were 6th on 4 points from 2 and Cercle Brugge 10th on 3 points from 2. Mechelen went on to finish that season 7th with 59 points, and Cercle Brugge 16th with 36.
Mechelen lined up in a 4-3-3 and Cercle Brugge in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Kevin Hoggas of Cercle Brugge (7.8), level with Thomas Didillon-Hödl (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Mechelen win, 0 draws and 1 for Cercle Brugge.
Key events
- 29'Yellow card · J. Omolo
- 37'Goal · W. Togui
- 54'Goal · Iké Ugbo
- 57'Goal · Dino Hotic
- 64'Goal · A. Vranckx
- 72'Yellow card · A. Vranckx
- 73'Yellow card · Wouter Vrancken
- 76'Yellow card · J. Taravel
- 80'Goal · Thibo Somers
- 82'Yellow card · Igor De Camargo
- 82'Yellow card · Igor De Camargo
- 88'Yellow card · Onur Kaya
- 88'Yellow card · Onur Kaya
- 90+5'Yellow card · Lucas Bijker
Head-to-head
Team news
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Mechelen line-up (4-3-3)
Gaëtan Coucke, Issa Kaboré, Thibaut Peyre, Rocky Bushiri, Lucas Bijker, Aster Vranckx, Rob Schoofs, Joachim Van Damme, Geoffry Hairemans, William Togui, Nikola Storm
Cercle Brugge line-up (4-4-2)
Thomas Didillon-Hödl, Robbe Decostere, Naomichi Ueda, Jeremy Taravel, Dimitar Velkovski, Charles Vanhoutte, Johanna Ochieng Omolo, Kevin Hoggas, Dino Hotic, Iké Ugbo, Kylian Hazard