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The Stade du Pays will not be sold out on Saturday evening. That is mainly due to the fact that their Sporting Charleroi team is playing against KAS Eupen, nothing more. It is not a topper but it is an important race with a view to the ranking. This way, Charleroi cannot make a mistake if it wants to remain in the top six. But Eupen is doing very well and with a ten out of twelve and can win three points from Charleroi himself. Do they continue their enthusiasm and know how to surprise again?
Sporting Charleroi:
Karim Belhocine is doing quite well with Charleroi for the time being. And that while it is his first year as head coach. After fourteen days of play (thirteen games played), his team is in sixth place in the rankings, which gives them the right to play-off I. That’s where they aim at Charleroi, but they also know that that is anything but a simple assignment. It is all on a cloth so the road is long. Last weekend it went to the then third in the stand, KV Mechelen.
KV Mechelen and Charleroi almost halfway the regular competition dream of a place in Play-off I and they showed especially in the first half why they play at the top. Each in their own way. KV Mechelen took the initiative and put some particularly handsome combinations to the mat. Charleroi opted for the rapid counterattack coupled with enviable efficiency. The result after forty-five minutes was a 2-2 rest position. Charleroi already showed his efficiency after eleven minutes when Rezaei scored the first chance for the visitors. Bruno’s preparatory work also deserves a mention. Fortunately for KVM, Kaya was able to equalize quickly in his four hundredth competition match as a professional. He kicked in a falling ball with a lot of feeling and precision. Still, Kaya’s goal paled at Nurio’s 1-2. He shot the ball into the goal after a corner from around twenty-five meters. A world goal that you should definitely review. Charleroi scored twice out of three goal attempts. Efficiency therefore. KVM equalized even before half-time after a penalty by Diandy on Van Cleemput. Storm misled Penneteau: 2-2. In the second half, the home team was closest to the 3-2, but goalkeeper Penneteau made an excellent save on a free kick by Kaya and stopped a second penalty for KV Mechelen. Storm was the man who missed. After seventy minutes, KVM was emptied and Charleroi took over. The visitors still had half a chance, but a draw was a justified result.
After concluding, they were still pushing and pulling on the field. Charleroi’s Ilaimaharitra was booked for. Trainer Karim Belhocine explained what happened after the match. “I think racial gestures targeting Ilaimaharitra were done in the stands. Ilaimaharitra said that to the ref. Apparently not the right way, because the ref gave him yellow. It was not a reaction against the referee, but against the reactions The card is given and therefore he will be suspended for the next match. “Because the KVM players did not fully understand what was going on, they did not respond well to Ilaimaharitra’s protest. That’s about what happened, but I don’t know exactly what my player said or did. I think Mechelen and Charleroi deserve a point. It was a nice match for the fans and we scored two great goals. The most positive thing for us is that we scored twice on relocation and that our mentality was good. ”
KAS Eupen:
Bernat San José, just like Belhocine, is also doing very well with his club. Certainly in view of the recent series of ten out of twelve, while Eupen was nevertheless seen as one of the possible relegation candidates. He ensures that his club knows how to set up a good organization and, in particular, manages to break out at the right moments and to expose the weak points of the opponent. The difference with the number six is even just six points. And that number six is Charleroi. Last week Dutch champion KRC Genk came to visit.
“Today’s assignment is not to play from the reaction, but to make the game from the start of the game,” Felice Mazzu said in an interview just before confronting Eupen. The words of the Genk coach were barely cold or his team once again left the initiative to the opponent. Eupen immediately pushed back the national champion, who was on the field with six new players. Three crazy minutes in the first proved to be enough to count Genk before the break. A corner kick from Milicevic was first headed away from the danger zone, but when Verdon threw the ball back in, the visitors let themselves be cold: Bolingi was completely free and worked the 1-0 through Coucke’s legs in one time in goal. The visitors had not completely recovered from the first goal or they already had to swallow a second one. Milicevic, who once again became completely himself in the East Cantons, threw a free kick in the back of the Genk defenders, Amat took the double lead oh so easily in the Genk goal. 2-0 half way. After the break, Mazzu still opted for his top shooter Samatta, while Ito had already taken over earlier. However, those switches did not do anything for an inspiration-free Racing Genk, which continued to roam around in the East Cantons like a ghost of yesteryear. A final offensive of the Dutch champion did not come. Eupen even got the best chances on the counterattack. Schouterden walked his left flank more than once and tested Coucke’s fist from a sharp angle. Benat San Jose was, as a coach of a top club, able to grant applause replacements to some key players. The 2-0 loss already means Genk’s fifth loss this season.
The atmosphere and confidence is very good at Eupen. For example, there are players who perform above their level and they notice that themselves. For example, Nils Schouterden admits after the game: “We are in a very good flow in which a lot of things work. The pieces of the puzzle are currently collapsing, but we have to be honest and keep our feet on the ground. It’s going well now but that does not last, of course. It is now up to us to enjoy it and to keep it up as long as possible. ”
Charleroi vs Eupen head to head matches
18.05.19 JL Charleroi Eupen 2 : 0
07.04.19 JL Eupen Charleroi 0 : 1
17.03.19 JL Charleroi Eupen 1 : 2
15.11.18 CF Charleroi Eupen 0 : 0
04.08.18 JL Eupen Charleroi 1 : 4