Circus Bruges Triumphs as Champions in 2023-2024 UEFA Slalom Season!

Cercle Brugge set for another bottom four finish just two years after European qualification Cercle Brugge , just two seasons after a historic qualification for European football, are set to battle it out in the relegation play downs for the second season in a row. While the side from Brugge are unlikely to be in any real danger of going down due to Dender’s poor season, it is clearly a disappointing return for a side that had looked so good just a few seasons ago. A 3-1 home defeat to fellow strugglers RAAL La Louviere condemned Cercle Brugge to another spell in the bottom four, while giving their opponents an outside chance of escaping into play-off two.

Yet, despite their struggles this season, Cercle Brugge and RAAL are the only clubs not to have changed manager this season. Cercle Brugge clearly feel like they needed to avoid kneejerk reactions after getting rid of the popular Miron Muslic last season. Onur Cinel had been brought in to ensure continuity of style from the days of Carlos Avina as Sporting Director and Muslic as head coach.

In fairness to Cinel, he has been working with an inexperienced defence this season and it has shown at times. Furthermore, the side have really struggled for an out and out goal scorer despite creating plenty of chances. If look at the numbers during that successful season under Muslic compared to this year with Cincel, they paint a clear picture of what has gone wrong.

That season , the side had the fifth best defence with just 1. 2 goals conceded per match, while they averaged 1. 4 goals for per match, the eighth best in Belgium.