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
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.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Bruny Nsimba
- 13'Yellow card · Benjamin Fredrick
- 42'Yellow card · Bruny Nsimba
- 45'Goal · Bryan Heynen
- 45+2'Yellow card · Malcolm Viltard
- 55'Second yellow · Malcolm Viltard
- 61'Yellow card · Luc De Fougerolles
- 67'Yellow card · Matte Smets
- 83'Goal · Ken Nkuba
- 90+2'Red card · David Toševski
- 90+5'Yellow card · Nikolas Sattlberger
Head-to-head
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