Mechelen 1-1 Gent: result and report

Pro League · Sunday 16 April 2023

Result

Mechelen 1-1 Gent

Pro League · Sunday 16 April 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Mechelen 1-1 Gent: match report

Mechelen drew with Gent 1-1 in the Pro League on Sunday 16 April 2023. The half-time score was 1-1.

M. Samoise opened the scoring in the 42nd minute. Mechelen's goal came from Dries Wouters (45'). Gent scored through M. Samoise (42').

Discipline: Mechelen received 1 yellow card; Gent received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Mechelen were 13th on 33 points from 31 and Gent 5th on 55 points from 32. Mechelen went on to finish that season 13th with 37 points, and Gent 4th with 72.

Mechelen lined up in a 4-3-3 and Gent in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Matisse Samoise of Gent (7.8), ahead of Hyun-seok Hong (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Mechelen win, 2 draws and 7 for Gent.

Going into the match Mechelen's last five read L-L-L-W-L and Gent's D-W-W-W-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 38'Yellow card · Birger VerstraeteMechelen
  • 42'Goal · M. SamoiseGent · 0-1
  • 45'Goal · Dries WoutersMechelen · 1-1
  • 90+1'Yellow card · M. SamoiseGent

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Mechelen 1, draws 2, Gent 7.

Team news

Mechelen line-up (4-3-3)

Gaëtan Coucke, Sandy Walsh, Jordi Vanlerberghe, David Bates, Dries Wouters, Alec Van Hoorenbeeck, Enock Agyei, Birger Verstraete, Dimitri Lavalée, Nikola Storm, Geoffry Hairemans

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

Paul Nardi, Joseph Okumu, Kamil Piątkowski, Núrio Fortuna, Matisse Samoise, Sven Kums, Julien De Sart, Alessio Castro-Montes, Hyun-seok Hong, Tarik Tissoudali, Hugo Cuypers