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Regular Season - 10• 1 Nov 2026

Cercle Brugge 2–1 Antwerp

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Goals

48'
61'
81'

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Match Recap

Tim Akinsola single-handedly dragged Cercle Brugge off the bottom of the Jupiler Pro League table, scoring twice in the second half to turn a bleak run around. Cercle had arrived at this one with no wins in five and four straight defeats, sitting 18th, but Akinsola struck in the 48th and 61st minutes to put the hosts firmly in control. Antwerp, sitting mid-table on 10 points despite their own wobbly form, hit back through M. Fofana in the 81st minute, but it arrived too late to rescue anything from Brugge. It also reversed recent history between the two: Cercle had lost the only previous meeting on record against Antwerp without scoring. Neither side features among the league's leading scorers chasing N. Tresoldi's 23 goals, but on this night it didn't matter, Akinsola was the whole story. Watch both of his goals, six minutes apart, that finally snapped Cercle Brugge's losing streak against Antwerp.

Match Statistics

Cercle Brugge
VS
Antwerp
41% Ball Possession 59%
0.71 Expected goals (xG) 2.36
10 Total Shots 15
5 Shots on target 4
3 Shots off target 9
2 Blocked Shots 2
7 Shots inside box 7
3 Shots outside box 8
4 Corner Kicks 3
— Offsides —
8 Fouls 14
0 Yellow Cards 4
— Red Cards —
2 Goalkeeper Saves 3
312 Total passes 454
219 Accurate passes 373
70% Pass accuracy 82%
-0.84 Goals prevented -0.84

Lineups

Cercle Brugge
— 4-2-3-1
VS
Antwerp
— 4-2-3-1

Substitutes — Cercle Brugge

21Yann Lienard 5Emmanuel Kakou 15Gary Magnee 75Sebbe Gheerardyns 82Louis Colman 42Lukas Mondele 71Viggo Martens 22Lucas Michal 41Krys Kouassi

Substitutes — Antwerp

81Niels Devalckeneer 4Yuto Tsunashima 44Maxime Busi 8Mauricio Benitez 10Christopher Scott 11Youssef Hamdaoui 14Xander Dierckx 25Modibo Fofana 9Michael Frey