Kairat Almaty vs Club Brugge KV Prediction & Betting Tips (20 January)

The baptism of fire in the Champions League is going rather badly for Kairat Almaty, already beaten five times for a small draw and an elimination which now seems inevitable. Indeed, being dead last, Almaty is five lengths behind Copenhagen. Even if successful today, if the higher ranked teams win, then the elimination will be official. In any case, Kairat has already won by participating in this league phase, particularly financially speaking. It remains to be seen whether the Kazakhs will be able to win at least one match. As a reminder, they held Pafos to a draw, probably the match to win at home 0-0. Before that, the local team had conceded a victory in front of their home crowd against Real Madrid 0-5 and lost to Sporting 4-1. The last 3 posters of 2025 corresponded to the last three days of the Champions League given that the domestic championship has already ended champion, and there were three losses by a small goal difference which were written against Inter 2-1, Copenhagen 3-2 and against Olympiakos 0-1. Eighth finalist in the Champions League last year, beaten by Aston Villa, Club Bruges made a bad impression in this new edition by being, for the moment, outside the folding seats allowing them to play the play-offs 31st.

The Belgians are even two lengths behind Copenhagen in the early morning. On the previous day in December, the Gazelles were no match for competition leader Arsenal, losing 0-3. It was with the same score that Bruges left Portugal against Sporting at José Alvala's 3-0 defeat. We can also mention the correction experienced at the Allianz Arena against Bayern Munich, 4-0 defeat, without forgetting the narrow defeat in Bergamo against Atalanta 2-1. In the end, only Monaco managed to lose against the Belgian club 4-1 victory. Still at home, the current 2nd in the Jupiler League managed to keep Barça in check 3-3. At the end of 2025, in the wake of its heavy disappointment against Arsenal, Club Bruges had three victories in the league, against Dender 1-5, La Gantoise 2-1 and Genk 3-5. It remains to be seen whether 2026 will start as well, with a friendly against Sturm Graz, a quarter-final of the Belgian Cup against Charleroi and a championship day last weekend against RAAL La Louvière to follow.

Suspended for accumulation of yellow cards against Olympiakos, the young 17-year-old local international striker Dastan Satpaev, the main architect of the league title with a total of 14 goals plus 6 assists, will probably be on deck today. On the other hand, there are still doubts regarding the presence of Ofri Arad (4 assists in the league) and the Brazilians Elder Santana and Joao Paulo, both of whom are of low importance within the rotation (all injured). Note the presence of the Portuguese Jorginho, author of 10 goals and 7 assists in the league. Since the clash with the Arsenal Gunners, Audoor, N.Jackers and L.Reis are still injured and very probably unavailable for this game. Recently, they were joined by the starting goalkeeper S.

Mignolet, who was also injured while Romeo Vermant (6 goals, 2 assists in the league) came out of treatment. Summoned to play the CAN with South Africa, S.Campbell will have already returned to the club. Uncertainty on the other hand for Raphael Onyedika, still in the running with Nigeria at the CAN at the time of writing these lines. Author of 2 goals in addition to 2 assists in this Champions League, the Portuguese international Carlos Forbs (2 goals, 3 assists in the league) will probably be on the long trip to Kazakhstan, the same for the precious Vanaken (4 goals in the league), Tresoldi (German international hopeful) and the Greek international Tzolis (7 goals, 9 assists in the league).