Thanks to Laurent Depoitre (16th), Tarik Tissoudali (20th, 23rd) and Matisse Samoise (47th), La Gantoise rose to fifth position in the Jupiler Pro League standings with 46 points, 5 behind Anderlecht (4th ) and 17 from Union Saint-Gilloise. Seraing (23 points) remains 17th. In Ghent, Hein Vanhaezebrouck again favored Davy Roef over Sinan Bolat in goal and fielded Elisha Owusu in place of Andrew Hjulsager to position Vadis Odjidja higher up the pitch. On the Steelworkers side, Jean-Louis Garcia launched the expected eleven with Mathieu Cachbach for Elias Spago. Before kick-off, the Ghent club also supported the anti-harassment movement. This initiative had repercussions on the start of the meeting where it was necessary to wait to see the Buffalos create a first opportunity wasted by Tissoudali (12th). On the other hand, on a pass from Sven Kums, Depoitre scored a first goal awarded after consulting the VAR, alerted by a possible offside by the striker (16th, 1-0).
The storm was going to blow for seven minutes in the Seresian surface. Thus, Tissoudali took advantage of a bad recovery from Guillaume Dietsch to double the gap (20th, 2-0). Seraing was in trouble and the Moroccan international pushed him a little deeper by scoring his thirteenth goal of the season (23rd, 3-0).
This Seraing could not hope to strike a blow in the second half and isolated in front of Dietsch by Odjidja, Samoise quickly demonstrated it (47th, 4-0). Ghent held its first victory at home in 2022. Broken down, the Steelworkers awaited the final whistle and still had the chance to see a free kick from Roman Bezus hit the crossbar (90th).
