Mechelen 1-2 Genk: result and report
Pro League · Saturday 18 January 2025
Result
Mechelen 1-2 Genk
Pro League · Saturday 18 January 2025, 17:15 UTC · half-time 1-2
Mechelen 1-2 Genk: match report
Mechelen lost to Genk 1-2 in the Pro League on Saturday 18 January 2025. The half-time score was 1-2.
Damir Milanovic opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Mechelen's goal came from Damir Milanovic (8'). Genk scored through Konstantinos Karetsas (16') and Zakaria El Ouahdi (25').
Discipline: Mechelen received 2 yellow cards; Genk received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Mechelen were 10th on 27 points from 21 and Genk 1st on 45 points from 21. Mechelen went on to finish that season 8th with 50 points, and Genk 3rd with 81.
Mechelen lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Genk in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ortwin De Wolf of Mechelen (8.0), ahead of Zakaria El Ouahdi (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Mechelen wins, 5 draws and 5 for Genk.
Going into the match Mechelen's last five read L-D-D-D-L and Genk's W-D-W-L-W.
Key events
- 8'Goal · Damir Milanovic
- 16'Goal · Konstantinos Karetsas
- 24'Yellow card · Geoffry Hairemans
- 25'Goal · Zakaria El Ouahdi
- 32'Yellow card · Aziz Ouattara
- 62'Yellow card · Nikolas Sattlberger
Head-to-head
Team news
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Mechelen line-up (3-4-2-1)
Ortwin De Wolf, Toon Raemaekers, Stephen Welsh, Ahmed Touba, Rafik Belghali, Rob Schoofs, Aziz Ouattara, José Marsà, Geoffry Hairemans, Bilal Bafdili, Benito Raman
Genk line-up (4-2-3-1)
Mike Penders, Ken Nkuba, Carlos Cuesta, Matte Smets, Zakaria El Ouahdi, Nikolas Sattlberger, Bryan Heynen, Jarne Steuckers, Konstantinos Karetsas, Noah Adedeji-Sternberg, Hyeon-gyu Oh