Mechelen 1-1 Gent: result and report
Pro League · Saturday 16 August 2025
Result
Mechelen 1-1 Gent
Pro League · Saturday 16 August 2025, 16:15 UTC · half-time 1-0
Mechelen 1-1 Gent: match report
Mechelen drew with Gent 1-1 in the Pro League on Saturday 16 August 2025. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Bilal Bafdili opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Mechelen's goal came from Bilal Bafdili (17'). Gent scored through Omri Gandelman (64').
Discipline: Mechelen received 2 yellow cards; Gent received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Mechelen were 5th on 7 points from 3 and Gent 11th on 3 points from 3. Mechelen went on to finish that season 10th with 51 points, and Gent 7th with 52.
Mechelen lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Gent in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Nacho Miras of Mechelen (9.0), ahead of Matisse Samoise (7.8).
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 W-W-D and Gent's L-W-L.
Key events
- 17'Goal · Bilal Bafdili
- 33'Yellow card · Matisse Samoise
- 47'Yellow card · Gora Diouf
- 64'Goal · Omri Gandelman
- 90+3'Yellow card · José Marsà
Head-to-head
Team news
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Mechelen line-up (3-4-1-2)
Nacho Miras, Tommy St. Jago, Redouane Halhal, José Marsà, Thérence Koudou, Fredrik Hammar, Rob Schoofs, Patrick Pflücke, Bilal Bafdili, Lion Lauberbach, Benito Raman
Gent line-up (3-5-2)
Davy Roef, Leonardo Lopes, Maksim Paskotsi, Siebe Van der Heyden, Matisse Samoise, Omri Gandelman, Mathias Delorge, Atsuki Ito, Tiago Araújo, Wilfried Kanga, Hyllarion Goore