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Beerschot started the competition with a nice victory. The visitors from Waregem are already under pressure. They don’t want to experience another long season at the bottom of the rankings.
Beerschot:
After seven years in the lower regions, football will finally be played at the highest level again in the Olympic Stadium from next weekend. But for how long? And we are not talking about relegation, because if the club can realize its ambitions, Beerschot will be a stable first division team in the coming years. However, the question is whether the building plans will be converted into construction works.
Beerschot is at the top after the win against Ostend. It took blood, sweat and tears, but that will happen more this season. The celebrity culture at the Mannekes is gone, enter the realistic collective football. Hernan Losada also wants to play football with a lot of position changes, flank changes, infiltrations … That is possible, but at the moment there is no player in the core who will make the difference on his own. Beerschot will tackle 1A as a collective. That could already be seen yesterday at Ostend. If it is not running in midfield, they will all put their heads together.
Beerschot has his priority: an extra striker. The Mannekes took Blessing Eleke away from FC Luzern. The 1m90 striker has to compete with Marius Noubissi. Eleke has played for Lucerne in Switzerland since 2018, where he scored 22 times and delivered 7 assists in 72 games. He is the target man profile that Beerschot was looking for: big, powerful and also fast. Two years ago, Anderlecht kept an eye on him, but an offer for him was then refused.
Zulte Waregem:
The disappointment was great at Zulte Waregem. Especially the second Genk goal, from the dot, left a bitter aftertaste. The ball fell on the hand of Pletinckx and on the advice of one of his assistants, ref Lambrechts whistled for a penalty. Essevee’s young captain disagreed with that decision. “I get the ball in my hand, but I am convinced that there is a mistake before it. Onuachu leans on me, causing me to fall backwards and get the ball against my hand. I had no intention of hitting the ball. I did not understand that the ref whistled a penalty kick. Rather, it seemed that Onuachu was violating me. ”
Onuachu brought new impetus to the visitors when he came in and his goal turned the game around. “A pity, because we played very well until his goal,” said coach Francky Dury afterwards. “After the equalizer, we too often lost the ball. The goals we swallow are also unfortunate. The first after a goalkeeper’s kick, the second after a penalty kick. I am not really happy with this result, but I have also seen many positive things. The organization was good and the faith was present. Our first half was particularly good, but as a coach I have to look for the reasons why things didn’t work out in the second half. ”