Genk 2-1 Dender: result and report

Pro League · Sunday 5 October 2025

Result

Genk 2-1 Dender

Pro League · Sunday 5 October 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Genk 2-1 Dender: match report

Genk won against Dender 2-1 in the Pro League on Sunday 5 October 2025. The half-time score was 1-1.

Bruny Nsimba opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Genk's goals came from Bryan Heynen (45') and Ken Nkuba (83'). Dender scored through Bruny Nsimba (10').

Discipline: Genk received 2 yellow cards; Dender received 4 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

Going into the game Genk were 14th on 9 points from 9 and Dender 16th on 3 points from 9. Genk went on to finish that season 4th with 58 points, and Dender 16th with 25.

Genk lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Dender in a 5-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Hendrik Van Crombrugge of Genk (8.6), ahead of Jarne Steuckers (8.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Genk wins, 0 draws and 0 for Dender.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Bruny NsimbaDender · 0-1
  • 13'Yellow card · Benjamin FredrickDender
  • 42'Yellow card · Bruny NsimbaDender
  • 45'Goal · Bryan HeynenGenk · 1-1
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Malcolm ViltardDender
  • 55'Second yellow · Malcolm ViltardDender
  • 61'Yellow card · Luc De FougerollesDender
  • 67'Yellow card · Matte SmetsGenk
  • 83'Goal · Ken NkubaGenk · 2-1
  • 90+2'Red card · David ToševskiDender
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Nikolas SattlbergerGenk

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Genk 4, draws 0, Dender 0.

Team news

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

Hendrik Van Crombrugge, Ken Nkuba, Mujaid Sadick, Matte Smets, Yaimar Medina, Patrik Hrosovsky, Bryan Heynen, Jarne Steuckers, Konstantinos Karetsas, Noah Adedeji-Sternberg, Jusef Erabi

Dender line-up (5-3-2)

Guillaume Dietsch, Benjamin Fredrick, Luc Marijnissen, Kobe Cools, Luc De Fougerolles, Fabio Ferraro, Roman Kvet, Noah Mbamba, Malcolm Viltard, Mohamed Berte, Bruny Nsimba