Club - RWDM: The Club Facts

After the trip to Reykjavik, RWDM will be guests at Jan Breydel on Sunday night. It is Club's only home match this month in the Jupiler Pro League. Fully prepared for this match? You can do that with the Club Facts!

The match

It is Club's first confrontation with the current RWDM, the champion of the Challenger Pro League. Against the "old" RWDM with tribal number 47, Club took part 48 times. 24 home matches against that club resulted in 16 wins, 5 draws and 3 defeats.

Club already kept zero in the league twice in a row. If it can do the same on Sunday, it will manage 3 wins with a clean-sheet for the first time since February-March 2021 (then also 3).

Top shooter Igor Thiago also has to put up with his Danish teammates Philip Zinckernagel and Andreas Skov Olsen since the previous match day. The trio has already scored 2 goals. Since his arrival, "Skovke" has already been involved in 31 goals in the Jupiler Pro League.

Hans Vanaken already put a teammate on the way to a goal 3 times. No other player in the Jupiler Pro League achieved as many assists as the Bruges captain.

Only Union (8 goals) scored more often than Club (7 times) this season. Club only had to concede one goal against, something that Union, Antwerp, KRC Genk and STVV also managed to do.

The opponent

There were a lot of inner-room struggles at the club this summer. Sporting director Julien Gorius was thrown out and just before the start of the season, the sporting staff led by coach Vincent Euvrard was also fired. Claudio Caçapa was appointed as the new coach, assisted by Anderson Luiz dos Santos Valiñas and former RWDM player Igor De Camargo.

Against the vice-champion KRC Genk, the club had a difficult start (0-4). But this was followed by two fine victories at OHL (1-2) and at home against KV Mechelen (1-0).

Martinican striker Mickaël Biron has scored all the goals so far and is the club's top shooter with 3 goals. Only Dennis Eckert Ayensa (Union, 4 goals) does better.

Recently, R.W.D.M. acquired striker Makhtar Gueye from KV Oostende. Against KV Mechelen, he made his debut for the club. Furthermore, the club attracted these players:

-> goalkeeper: Guillaume Hubert [KV Oostende].

-> defenders: Abner (Bra) [Farense (Por), Luis Segovia (Ecu) [rented from Botafogo (Bra)].

-> midfielders: Xavier Mercier (Fra) [Ferencvaros (Hun)], Alexis de Sart [permanently acquired from Antwerp after renting last year], Shuto Abe (Jpn) [FC Tokyo (Jpn)], Florent Sanchez (Fra) [rented from Olympique Lyonnais (Fra)], Pierre Dwomoh [rented from Antwerp], Sada Diallo [back from French Borains]

Milestones

Brandon Mechele can play his 380th match for Club.

Referee

Wesli De Cremer was designated ref for this game. The 31-year-old Flemish-Brabant ref will be assisted by linesmen Mathias Hillaert and Michele Seeldraeyers and by fourth official Matonga Simonini.

The VAR on duty is Jasper Vergoote. He will be assisted in Tubize by Michael Geerolf and Bert Verbeke.

De Cremer is leading an official match of Club Brugge for the sixth time. The 2 previous home matches in that series were both won.