Cercle Brugge 2-1 Dender: result and report

Pro League · Friday 24 April 2026

Result

Cercle Brugge 2-1 Dender

Pro League · Friday 24 April 2026, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Cercle Brugge 2-1 Dender: match report

Cercle Brugge defeated Dender 2-1 in the Pro League on Friday 24 April 2026. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Oumar Diakité opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Cercle Brugge's goals came from Oumar Diakité (29') and Oumar Diakité (69'). Dender scored through Malcolm Viltard (84').

Discipline: Cercle Brugge received no yellow cards; Dender received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Cercle Brugge were 12th on 38 points from 33 and Dender 16th on 22 points from 33. Cercle Brugge went on to finish that season 13th with 41 points, and Dender 16th with 25.

Cercle Brugge lined up in a 3-5-2 and Dender in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Oumar Diakité of Cercle Brugge (8.1), ahead of Edan Diop (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Cercle Brugge wins, 3 draws and 2 for Dender.

Going into the match Cercle Brugge's last five read W-W-D-W-L and Dender's L-L-W-L-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Yellow card · Alireza JahanbakhshDender
  • 29'Goal · Oumar DiakitéCercle Brugge · 1-0
  • 54'Yellow card · Luc MarijnissenDender
  • 69'Goal · Oumar DiakitéCercle Brugge · 2-0
  • 84'Goal · Malcolm ViltardDender · 2-1

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Cercle Brugge 2, draws 3, Dender 2.

Team news

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Cercle Brugge line-up (3-5-2)

Warleson, Emmanuel Kakou, Geoffrey Kondo, Valy Konaté, Ibrahim Diakité, Ibrahima Diaby, Hannes Van Der Bruggen, Edan Diop, Nazinho, Oumar Diakité, Steve Ngoura

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

Guillaume Dietsch, Marsoni Sambu, Luc Marijnissen, Bo De Kerf, Bryan Goncalves, Nathan Rôdes, Malcolm Viltard, Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Desmond Acquah, Ragnar Oratmangoen, David Toshevski