Sporting CP vs Club Brugge prediction 26.11.2025 | Champions League

Sporting have become a frustrating team to break down lately and that steady form showed up again when they eased past Marinhense in the Portuguese Cup after the international break.

Rui Borges’ players never looked rushed in that 3–0 win, which quietly pushed their unbeaten streak to nine matches and stretched their run of home victories to four.

You get the sense that the Green and Whites feel comfortable at the José Alvalade right now, especially after winning both of their Champions League home fixtures this season.

The downside is the growing list of absentees, with Daniel Bragança out long term and Zeno Debast still nursing a knee issue, not to mention injuries to Pedro Gonçalves and Fotis Ioannidis.

Club Brugge arrive with confidence of their own after putting together a six match unbeaten run, a stretch that includes five wins and an unexpectedly steady draw against Barcelona.

Yet their form away from Belgium tells a very different story. They stumbled to a 2–1 defeat at Atalanta earlier in the campaign and then endured a rough night in Munich when Bayern put four past them without reply.

That pattern fits a broader trend, as they have now failed to win six of their last eight Champions League trips and have leaked seventeen goals in that same window.

Nicky Hayen will also have to do without a host of injuries, after Bjorn Meijer was ruled out until the end of the month while Simon Mignolet, Ludovit Reis, Lynnt Audoor and Kyriani Sabbe all working on rehabilitation.