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blegum Club 0-5 Leipzig (0-4) Zagreb 1-1 Genk (1-1) Frankfurt 2-2 Antwerp (1-1) Anorthosis 1-0 Gent (1-0) Union 1-3 OHL (0-2) Seraing 2-0 STVV (1-0) Cercle 3-1 Mechelen (1-1) Eupen 2-2 Mechelen (2-1) Charleroi 1-3 Anderlecht (0-1) Genk 2-3 Club (0-1) Waregem 2-0 Beerschot (2-0) Gent 3-1 Standard (1-0) Antwerp 3-0 Oostende (1-0) Talk of the week: Club are in crisis maybe???? Cercle are horrid for firing their manager two weeks after they wanted to to not make him lose his dad and his job in the same week Union are your leaders, Beerschot and Cercle are in the relegation zone NEXT WEEK Tuesday November 30 Seraing - Anderlecht Wednesday December 1 Genk - Club Kortrijk - Oostende Mechelen - Cercle Lommel (1B) - Gent Westerlo (1B) - OHL Eupen - Waregem Thursday December 2 Standard - Beerschot Friday December 3 STVV - Union Saturday December 4 OHL - Gent Kortrijk - Cercle Club - Seraing Oostende - Eupen Sunday December 5 Standard - Charleroi Mechelen - Genk Beerschot - Genk Anderlecht - Waregem
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R. Mute posted:francky I'm truly sorry for your loss
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Turns out that it was Dury holding Zulte-Waregem back
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With last weekend's games, we are officially halfway through the competition for this year. Let's take a look at the table.  Yes, newly promoted side Union are still on top, and are guaranteed to be top when winter break starts. The big 5 (minus Genk and Standard) are on their heels, but they'll need points in January if they don't want the gap to be too big when the playoffs hit. At the bottom, Beerschot are all but mathematically relegated and the only question is which club is risking to be relegated along them. It seems like the top half is going to stay similar to this table, but bottom half can still go a whole lot of ways. The stories by club so far... Union: a fairytale from start to finish so far, as Brighton's B-team was able to keep hold of its main axis, building a new partnership involving Deniz Undav and Dante Vanzeir to replace the old Niakité-Tau partnership that almost got them promoted a few years ago. Other big players in their starting XI are Casper Nielsen, Bart Nieuwkoop and recent acquirement, Brighton loanee Kaoru Mitoma. Manager Felice Mazzu also just got a trophy for his individual story, proving that he's actually a good manager and it is just Genk that suck in keeping managers. Their only disappointment so far was losing in the cup, but their opponent, Mechelen, is a very fierce cup team and is also doing really good this season. They've already scored 50 goals this season and it's not unthinkable they'll repeat Club's 2014-15 feat of scoring 100 goals in one season. Club: In normal situations, this current season wouldn't be too bad. A decent cup run so far and a good shout for the title after a grueling autumn. This isn't a normal situation though. Straight off back-to-back title wins, the Club fans want another convincing title win and, well, Club's just not been the mad machine it was the previous years. Defensive blunders and a personal disagreement with their captain Ruud Vormer on what his role should be in the future has made it so Club is no longer the invincible team it looked like last January. Add to that a CL campaign that almost could've been a dream turning into a nightmare with 4 consecutive losses with 4+ goals conceded, and the fans haven't been amused, even though every other club in Belgium would probably sign to be in their spot right now. Things are looking up though as the princes of Bruges: Hans Vanaken, Charles De Ketelaere and Noa Lang are growing into their best form and the most high-profile acquirement this season, Tajon Buchanan, arriving in January. Philippe Clement has a big chance of becoming the most successful active manager in Belgium with a 4th title in a row. Antwerp: Turmoil's never that far from the Great Old and this year hasn't really been different. New manager Brian Priske had to learn how to handle the egos in the dressing room and the loss of more finetuned players like Lior Refaelov to try and combine the traditional hoofball Antwerp usually play with tactics that can break the catennacio most Belgian clubs play against the top 5 teams. A shaky start of the competition swiftly turned into a good series for Antwerp, but that cost them the qualification in a Eurofoot group that was pretty tough, but not impossible for a very ambitious Antwerp side. Still not a high scoring side, it can build on a good defensive line lead by Ritchie De Laet. The arrival of Belgium's favorite Bad Boi Radja Nainggolan initially turned out to be a bust, but him and captain Faris Haroun have been the perfect assistants for strikers Michael Frey and Viktor Fischer. With the title being the only trophy Antwerp can still go for (and with a chairman who desperately wants it) it's going to be a tense second half of the season. Anderlecht: Despite all the jokes fans are making about The Process and Kompany's coaching, Anderlecht are in playoff 1 contention once again. They're still active in both the cup and the league and were able to profit from the Eurofoot teams slacking in the league to get themselves up by their bootstraps. Ironically though, it was done by completely letting go of The Process, with young kids getting sold for lots of dosh and the replacements being older players who already know the league like Lior Refaelov, Wesley Hoedt and Benito Raman. The main problem for Anderlecht is that they have become a selling club by necessity, rather than by business model like most Belgian clubs. Add to that that the main striker duo, Joshua Zirkzee and Christian Kouamé, is once again an attacking line made up of only loanees and you see how Anderlecht has no possible long term plan for the forseeable future. It's only extra painful that two of their three archrivals are currently in a boom period. Gent: Hein's magic is working again at Gent with a disastrous start of the season, which almost saw them get ousted out of Eurofoot by Latvian amateurs, being turned into a playoff 1 contention season. It's been a while since that happened, and most of that contention is due to the amazing season Tarik Tissoudali is having as the attacking line leader, backed by club icons Vadis Odjidja, Sven Kums and recent acquirement Andrew Hjulsager. A defensive line that's currently pushing well above their weight has made it so Gent are the least passed defense in Belgium as well. Debuting the Belge Eurofoot in the Conference League, they are currently the only team in Belgium to still be going for three trophies. Recent history has shown though that a spring programme in Europe tends to lose clubs titles, and are Gent really going to risk losing it all to get maybe an EL ticket? Charleroi: A return to the Mazzu-era form Charleroi have been in in recent seasons, with the arrival of new wonderkid manager Edward Still molding a decent team into a more than decent team for the Belge league. They're not in the conversation for the title, but they could nab themselves a European ticket. The team is carried by club icons Ryota Morioka and Marco Ilaimaharitra, who've got the league's best goalie in Hervé Koffi behind them and one of the best strikers ahead of them in Shamar Nicholson... At least they had, as Nicholson was just sold to Spartak Moscow for a huge 10m euros. Kortrijk: Kortrijk fans are also inarguably happy to no longer have to deal with relegation this season, as they had to for the last couple of seasons. Kortrijk are currently combining a strong defensive line carried by Kristof D'haene with Faiz Selemani scoring just enough goals that a draw doesn't happen. Kortrijk are the team with the least goals scored to still have a positive goal difference and it doesn't really seem like their luck is going to last them long enough to be in contention for the playoffs still, Belhocine isn't really a manager who can handle pressure too well. But hey, at least they've got a new stadium coming soon. That's nice Mechelen: A real strong start has been marred by several dumb losses and draws in November, but make no mistake: Mechelen are probably the biggest contender for playoff 1 spots outside of the big 5 and they've got another good shout at a cup win this year. This team has a lot of young players who all had their formative years at top 5 teams and who are currently shining for a team with a bit less pressure on them: Rob Schoofs, Nikola Storm and Gaëtan Coucke have taken their second chance to be a professional player in Belgium with both hands and they're leading Mechelen to a new prosperous period for the Kakkers, alongside steadfast manager Wouter Vrancken, who's shown himself to be a more than competent leader. Genk: If Genk win a trophy, you can practically guarantee the year after is always a disaster. Once again Genk show themselves to be the epitome of disappointment as another team that's arguably the best in the league potentially selfdestructs itself. Paul Onuachu, top scorer of last season, is but a shadow of himself and old faithful Junya Ito hasn't been at his best at all this season. Add to that a lot of disappointing acquirements like Mike Trésor and Carel Eiting and you'll understand it'll be really difficult for Storck to still have the season somewhat. Are midtable because Genk at its worst is still good enough to ruin a whole lot of teams in Belgium. Eupen: I honestly thought Eupen would have a pretty horrible season but their fantastic start to the season has probably made it they don't have to worry about relegation this year either. Stefan Krämer put a bit of realism into a team that's created by an old Spanish board that thought that tiki taka by olds was enough to do decent in Belgium. Jordi Amat still carries the defense and Smail Prevljak still scores a lot. That's really there is to Eupen this year. Oostende: Blessinball was a great showcase of gegenpressen in the Pro League last year, but not even Gegenpressen can handle your team being cannibalized by bigger teams and the replacements not at all being in the same category. Makthar Gueye is the only survivor of a playoff contention team that's currently involved in the scramble to avoid relegation. Sad Standard: Ok, let's be real here. Standard have been broke for a lot of years and they don't have the same link with Belgian capital like Anderlecht do. They are literally up poo poo creek without a paddle, especially since everyone they try to sell the club to turn out to be too blatant of criminals to let them get away with their crimes or they're still active footballers like Axel Witsel. Their man stronghold in the first half of the season, Hugo Siquet, is leaving in January and the only players that are to the level of Standard in their glory days are keeper Arnaud Bodart and striker Joao Klauss. Everyone else here is pretty gash and they're like seriously in discussion to get relegated. Which would just be madness OHL: actually don't deserve to be here, but they've got the old Marc Brys disease of drawing a lot of games they should've won. Leicester B have always had a lot of fun teams and this year isn't any different. Xavier Mercier, Siebe Schrijvers and Mathieu Maertens all have enough JPL experience to save the club from relegation and Sory Kaba scores just enough that they don't lose too often. Cercle: Had a really bad start to the season but the intrinsic quality of the team (that aren't Monaco loanees because jesus they're not good once again) is showing and I think they'll avoid relegation. The Cercle board showed they're a bunch of inpatient clowns though by kicking out Vanderhaeghe for a guy who doesn't know the league, and that might be the only thing that makes a somewhat rocky season a very rocky last third of the season. STVV: see OHL, except the Hollerbach disease is that they're losing a lot of games they should've won. A very leaky defense makes it so they pretty much have to score at least twice to not lose and Yuma Suzuki is just not the clinical finisher they need. The fact that their main axis consists of olds like Steve De Ridder and Christian Bruls doesn't help. The Japanese owners are going to have to invest quite a bit if they don't want another relegation. Waregem: the big news in Waregem is obviously the assassination of Francky Dury by the coward The Waregem Ultras(?) and the switch to the co-managership of club man Davy De fauw and Club man Timmy Simons. They'll need to hope the amount of goals Vossen and Gano score is bigger than the amount of blunders of De Bock and Bossut. Might lose best man Dompé to Standard (who did their first offer only days before the match between them which is so loving poo poo of them lmao) Seraing: just happy they got to be here to be honest. Probably the worst team I've seen in Belgium since Tubize. Would probably already have been mathematically relegated if Mikautadze wasn't good at scoring goals, but if you only have a modicum of a semblance of a defensive line Seraing are harmless. Beerschot: see Oostende, but add to that appointing a noted crook Peter Maes instead of young hopeful Will Still as manager and then appointing another person who just doesn't know the league. It turns out 'hoof it to Holzhauser' isn't a good tactic if there's no Tissoudali
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