CHARLEROI. Genk beats Sporting Charleroi 1-0 after Y. Collins scored just 1 goal (71′). Genk was vastly superior in terms of ball possession (64%) and that was among the factors of its victory.​

The match was played at the Stade du Pays de Charleroi stadium in Charleroi on Friday and it started at 8:45 pm local time. The referee was Kevin Van Damme who had the assistance of Lennert Jans and Tom Vanpoucke. The 4th official was Arthur Denil. The weather was broken clouds. The temperature was quite cold at 5.44 degrees Celsius or 41.79 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 91%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Genk had a strong ball possession 64% while Sporting Charleroi was struggling with a 36% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Genk was putting more pressure with 82 dangerous attacks and 19 shots of which 7 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Genk won the match.​

Sporting Charleroi shot 6 times, 4 on target, 1 off target. On the other side, Genk shot 19 times, 7 on target, 5 off target.

Cards

Sporting Charleroi received 2 yellow cards (Youssuf Sylla and Marco Ilaimaharitra). Regarding the opposition, Genk received 2 yellow cards (Tolu Arokodare and Bilal El Khannouss).

Standings

After this contest, Sporting Charleroi stays with 25 points like OH Leuven to hold in the 13th place. Talking about the opposition, Genk will has 43 points to sit in the 5th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Pro League, Sporting Charleroi will play away against Westerlo on the 2nd of March with a 9-7 head to head statistic in favor of Westerlo (5 draws).

Genk will host Club Brugge on the 2nd of March with a 22-21 head to head stats in favor of Club Brugge (11 draws).

Sporting Charleroi – Formation

Sporting Charleroi started with a 3-5-2 line-up (3-5-2).

The manager Felice Mazzù decided to play with the following team: Hervé Koffi (8.5), Jonas Bager (7.1), Stelios Andreou (6.7), Jules Van Cleemput (6.7), Jeremy Petris (7.0), Marco Ilaimaharitra (7.3), Dillon Sheppard (6.8), Antoine Bernier (6.4), Vetle Dragsnes (6.8), Oday Dabbagh (6.4) and Youssuf Sylla (6.8).

The home team had on the bench: Stefan Knežević (7.0), Isaac Mbenza (6.8), Parfait Guiagon (6.4), Youssouph Badji (7.1), Nikola Štulić, Žan Rogelj, Mehdi Boukamir (6.4), Ryota Morioka and Martin Delavalée.

Sporting Charleroi could not rely on the presence of Stefan Knežević (injured) and Mehdi Boukamir (injured).

Substitutions

Sporting Charleroi made 5 changes: Jules Van Cleemput for Stefan Knežević (35′), Stefan Knežević for Mehdi Boukamir (57′), Oday Dabbagh for Isaac Mbenza (57′), Antoine Bernier for Parfait Guiagon (75′) and Vetle Dragsnes for Youssouph Badji (75′).

Player of the match: Hervé Koffi​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Sporting Charleroi was the goalkeeper: Hervé Koffi. His rating is 8.47. He performed 6 saves.

Genk – Formation

Genk started with a 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

Wouter Vrancken played with: Maarten Vandevoordt (7.5), Zakaria El Ouahdi (8.2), Carlos Cuesta (7.0), Mark McKenzie (7.5), Joris Kayembe (7.1), Bryan Heynen (7.0), Patrik Hrosovsky (6.8), Christopher Baah (7.8), Bilal El Khannouss (8.7), Luca Oyen (6.7) and Tolu Arokodare (8.1).

These were the players on the bench: Hendrik Van Crombrugge, Mujaid Sadick, Alejandro Galarza, Andi Zeqiri, Yira Collins Sor (7.3), Anouar Ait El Hadj, Eduard Sobol (6.8), Ken Nkuba, Noah Adedeji-Sternberg and Konstantinos Karetsas.

Substitutions

Genk made 2 changes: Luca Oyen for Yira Collins Sor (70′) and Joris Kayembe for Eduard Sobol (83′).

Player of the match: Bilal El Khannouss​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Genk was Bilal El Khannouss even if he didn’t score the decisive goal.

His rating is 8.7 with 71 passes (85% accurate) and 4 key passes. He won 10 duels out of 19. He performed 8 crosses. He hit the woodwork once times.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Pro League.​

• Sporting Charleroi – Genk – 0-1