Union Saint-Gilloise v Gent Betting Tips [27 December 2021]

Union Saint-Gilloise have taken the Belgian top flight, First Division A, by storm on their return after close to five decades out and will be looking to stretch their lead when they host Gent. Union Saint-Gilloise go into this game leading the standings with 46 points, 13 ahead of fifth placed Gent. The league leaders have four straight wins and have scored two or more goals in each of them. In each of their last 20 matches across all competitions, Union Saint-Gilloise have managed to score. Twice in the last five matches, Union Saint-Gilloise have conceded two or more goals and they have just two clean sheets in the last five matches. Both teams have scored in three of their last five matches.

Gent will be looking to extend their winning run after picking wins in the last two outings. They are coming from a cup game, against Standard Liege, which they won 3-1. The goal conceded at the start of the second half left them without a clean sheet in three matches. Defence aside, a lot of hopes going to this game will be on Tarik Tissoudali to continue in his fine form, after scoring five times in the last three matches. Just like Union Saint-Gilloise, Gent’s matches have been high-scoring. The last three have produced over 2.5 goals and Gent have failed to score in just one of their last 10 games. Their last away league game ended in a 4-3 loss to Mechelen, that being their third game in five to end in over 2.5 goals.

Two sides with good scoring runs face off and we can only predict a continuation of their scoring forms. Somehow, this is an assurance of goals in this game and with the high scoring nature of their recent matches, we will go for another high scoring game here. Back it to end in over 2.5 goals.