Club Brugge begin their 2025-26 Jupiler Pro League campaign with a home match against Genk.
Nicky Hayen’s side will be feeling pretty good about themselves ahead of this contest after a successful outing last weekend.
Club Brugge beat Pro League champions Union Saint-Gilloise 2-1 to claim the Belgian Super Cup title.
Can they make it back-to-back wins to start the campaign? We will soon find out, with kick-off scheduled for late Sunday afternoon.
Below is a full sports betting online preview for Club Brugge vs Genk, with betting tips and odds to help with your Pro League football bets online.
Club Brugge vs Genk Preview
Christos Tzolis and Hans Vanaken were each on target in the Super Cup victory over USG, the perfect start to 2025-26 for two of Club Brugge’s most important players.
As such, you would like to think that confidence levels in the camp are pretty high ahead of the Pro League’s return.
Club Brugge ended the 2024-25 season in pretty good fashion, but the same cannot be said about Genk, who went from title favourites to third in the Championship Round.
Genk’s pre-season matches have been nothing to write home about either, with a 1-1 draw against Rayo Vallecano last Saturday the final preparation for this match.
Improvement is required from Thorsten Fink’s side, especially given their recent record against Sunday’s hosts.
Genk have failed to win any of the last five matches against Club Brugge, with Hayen’s men claiming victory in four of those fixtures.
However, not everything is positive with regard to the side from Bruges, with the ongoing transfer saga surrounding Ardon Jashari and AC Milan a potentially worrying distraction for the rest of the squad.
Furthermore, Maxim De Cuyper, Chemsdine Talbi and Ferran Jutgla have all departed the Jan Breydel Stadium this summer after making significant impacts in 2024-25, so there is a slight degree of entering the unknown for Club Brugge.
Club Brugge vs Genk Odds
*All odds are subject to change
Home side Club Brugge are the big favourites to pick up the win on Matchday 1 at odds of 1.74. Genk are priced at 4.20, while the draw is 3.87.
Club Brugge vs Genk Betting Tips
Christos Tzolis to score anytime @ 2.50
As previously mentioned, Tzolis was on target once again for Club Brugge in the Super Cup win over USG. The Greek winger is growing into a serious player, one capable of operating at an even higher level in the future. We are backing him to get his Pro League campaign underway in style.
Tolu Arokodare to score anytime @ 3.50
Genk’s main man up top, stopping Arokodare in the final third has proven to be a tall order for even the best sides in Belgium. He scored 23 goals across all competitions last season, with 21 of them coming in Pro League action. So wagering on him to find the back of the net always feels like a sensible course of action.
Club Brugge to win and both teams to score @ 3.27
As we are tipping one goalscorer from both teams, it feels only right to go down the BTTS route. We expect Genk to put up a good fight in Bruges on Sunday, but in the end, the quality and depth of Hayen’s squad should be enough to steer the home side to victory.
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