Club - Zulte Waregem: the Club Facts

Club receives Zulte Waregem tomorrow night at Jan Breydel. It will be a reunion with some familiar names! Read the Club Facts below.

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THE MATCH

On Sunday, Club Brugge and Zulte Waregem conclude the 18th matchday of the Jupiler Pro League. It is the 44th meeting between the two teams in First Division. The 21 previous home matches against Essevee ended in 17 wins (last time 3-0 on 07/03/2021), 1 draw (1-1 on 11/08/2013) and 3 defeats (last time 1-3 on 23/11/2018).

In the last 10 home matches, Club Brugge failed to win only once against Essevee. Blauw-Zwart could already keep the zero in 5 consecutive mutual confrontations against Dury's team.

Earlier this season, Blauw-Zwart went on to win 0-4 at the Elindus Arena. Noa Lang, Ruud Vormer, Hans Vanaken and Charles De Ketelaere were the four different goal scorers. Last weekend, Cisse Sandra scored his first league goal. Club already has 12 different goal scorers this season. No other club in the Jupiler Pro League is doing better. Opponent Zulte Waregem is at the tail end of this ranking and has only 6 different goal scorers: Abdoulaye Sissako, Dereck Kutesa, Ewoud Pletinckx, Jean-Luc Dompé, Jelle Vossen and Zinho Gano.

THE OPPONENT

Sunday Essevee will be guests at Jan Breydel for the first game of the return round of the regular league. The club is only 16th in the rankings with 17 points. That is 1 point more than Cercle Brugge, which is in a spot where relegation bragging rights are due at the end of the season.

Dury's team scored 9 out of 24 on the road. It went on to win at STVV (1-2) and KV Oostende (0-2), drew at OHL (1-1), KV Mechelen (2-2) and KAS Eupen (1-1) and lost at Union (2-1), Seraing (5-1) and Anderlecht (3-2).

At Zulte Waregem, ex-Club Brugge striker Jelle Vossen is the top shooter. The Limburg striker has already hit 11 goals this season. Of all still active players in the Jupiler Pro League, he scored the most often in this competition (144 goals). The 2nd best in that list is Hans Vanaken who already has 92 league goals behind his name.

The other frequent scorer Zinho Gano also has a history at Club. He already shook the nets 10 times this season. Gano is the player who entered the most duels (266) and also won the most (140) of all players in the Jupiler Pro League.

The sporting staff features some familiar faces. Indeed, Timmy Simons and Davy De Fauw are Francky Dury's assistant coaches.

MILPALS

Federico Ricca can play his 50th match for Club Brugge. He can also play his 30th league match at FCB. Matej Mitrovic and Faitout Maouassa are awaiting their 50th and 10th match for Club, respectively.

Ignace Van der Brempt can play his 20th league match at Club.

THE REFEREE

Wim Smet was designated ref for this West Flanders derby. He will be assisted by linesmen Tom Vanpoucke and Lennert Jens. The fourth official is Jasper Vergoote. The VAR on duty is Lothar D'Hondt, flanked by Arthur Denil and Arne De Beuckelaer.

Smet is leading an official match of Blauw-Zwart for the 20th time. The 39-year-old ref will whistle an Essevee match for the 26th time. 15 previous home matches of Club under Smet's supervision ended in 13 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. 10 previous away matches of Zulte Waregem under his direction yielded 3 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats.

Earlier this season he whistled Club's game at Union (0-1) and Essevee's home game against KRC Genk (2-6) and the away game at RFC Seraing (5-1).

OTHER MATCHES OF THIS DAY
Fri 10/12 20:45 Sp. du Pays de Charleroi - KV Oostende (1-0)

Sat 11/12 16:15 KV Kortrijk - Oud-Heverlee Leuven
Sat 11/12 18:30 K. Sint-Truidense VV - Cercle Brugge
Sat 11/12 18:30 KAS Eupen - K. Beerschot VA
Sat 11/12 20:45 RFC Seraing - RSC Anderlecht

Sun 12/12 13:30 R. Antwerp FC - R. Standard de Liège
Sun 12/12 16:00 R. Union St.-Gilloise - YR KV Mechelen
Sun 12/12 18:30 KAA Gent - KRC Genk