Club Brugge vs Aston VillaPrediction, probable lineups, recent form & season stats

The Jan Breydel Stadion opens the league phase with Club Brugge KV and Aston Villa, two sides that already met three times between November 2024 and March 2025. The competition starts from zero for everyone and there is no table to quote: what counts are the recent outings and those three meetings. Two contrasting runs Club Brugge KV lost 1-2 at Gent in their latest game, but before that they had strung together three wins, 1-0 against Cercle Brugge, 3-0 away at OH Leuven and 3-0 against Kortrijk, plus a 1-1 at home with Union St. Gilloise. Aston Villa, by contrast, arrive on the back of five straight defeats: 0-1 at home to Arsenal, 0-4 at Brighton, 1-2 at Mönchengladbach, 1-2 against Paris Saint Germain and 1-2 against Bayern München. In those five games they scored 3 goals and conceded 11. The three meetings The first, in November 2024, ended 1-0 to Club Brugge KV in Belgium. The following March the two-legged tie went the English side's way: 3-1 for Aston Villa in Bruges and then 3-0 at Aston Villa's own ground. Two wins to one for the visitors, with the Belgians scoring only once across the last two games of that run. The prediction may change in the hours before kick-off. Confirmed line-ups, late injuries, suspensions, rotation ahead of other fixtures and the state of the pitch and the weather can all alter the picture described above. In those cases the selection may be reviewed and updated within 12 to 24 hours of the match: this happens rarely, but when it does, the version published on this page is always the current one. The data and assessments here are provided for information and statistical purposes.