Mechelen 5-2 Dender: result and report

Pro League · Friday 4 April 2025

Result

Mechelen 5-2 Dender

Pro League · Friday 4 April 2025, 18:45 UTC · half-time 4-0

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Mechelen 5-2 Dender: match report

Mechelen beat Dender 5-2 in the Pro League on Friday 4 April 2025. The half-time score was 4-0.

Nikola Storm opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Mechelen's goals came from Nikola Storm (10'), Lion Lauberbach (14'), Rob Schoofs (21'), Rob Schoofs (42') and Lion Lauberbach (56'). Dender scored through Bruny Nsimba (59') and Mohamed Berte (90').

Discipline: Mechelen received no yellow cards; Dender received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Mechelen were 8th on 39 points from 31 and Dender 12th on 35 points from 31. Mechelen went on to finish that season 8th with 50 points, and Dender 12th with 45.

Mechelen lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Dender in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Lion Lauberbach of Mechelen (8.9), ahead of Rob Schoofs (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Mechelen wins, 0 draws and 0 for Dender.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Nikola StormMechelen · 1-0
  • 14'Goal · Lion LauberbachMechelen · 2-0
  • 21'Goal · Rob SchoofsMechelen · 3-0
  • 42'Goal · Rob SchoofsMechelen · 4-0
  • 56'Goal · Lion LauberbachMechelen · 5-0
  • 59'Goal · Bruny NsimbaDender · 5-1
  • 77'Yellow card · Noah MbambaDender
  • 90'Goal · Mohamed BerteDender · 5-2

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Mechelen 2, draws 0, Dender 0.

Team news

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

Ortwin De Wolf, Rafik Belghali, Stephen Welsh, Ahmed Touba, José Marsà, Fredrik Hammar, Rob Schoofs, Patrick Pflücke, Geoffry Hairemans, Nikola Storm, Lion Lauberbach

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

Michael Verrips, Gilles Ruyssen, Kobe Cools, Bryan Goncalves, Malcolm Viltard, Noah Mbamba, Nathan Rôdes, Fabio Ferraro, Roman Kvet, Aurélien Scheidler, Bruny Nsimba