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The AFAS stadium will be the setting for the home match of KV Mechelen on Wednesday, which will receive Sint-Truiden. The home team is busy with a very impressive series and is actually in third place in the rankings. Sint-Truiden has less fun days and is currently positioning itself in 12th place. It does a lot less than last season, so the club would like to put down a three point as quickly as possible. Will that succeed on the KV Mechelen pitch?
KV Mechelen:
Occasionally, PhD students sometimes do well, but what KV Mechelen is currently doing is very impressive. After twelve match days, Malinwa is in an incredibly handsome third place with twenty-three points. As a result, it must only pass Standard and Club Brugge with one and four points more respectively. Play-off I is not mentioned yet, although analysts are already doing so. Last weekend it moved to Waasland-Beveren.
There was no question of any level difference in the first half. Waasland-Beveren, the number fifteen, bit nicely against KV Mechelen, which shared the third position. KV Mechelen was released after twenty minutes when Vukotic headed a corner just wide of the post. A little later the Albanian Greek Durmishaj aimed the ball to the square, but goalie Thoelen could not be caught for one hole. At KV Mechelen, too, the focus was initially not on. When De Camargo seemed to complete a perfect counter with his head, the bar turned out to be a cross. It was a postponement of execution for Waasland-Beveren, because just before the half-time signal the ball was still in the basket, again after a counter-strike. This time Vanlerberghe swung the ball from left to right, where Kaya was lurking and the leather slid low over goalie Jackers, 0-1, and the score at halftime. Waasland-Beveren quickly returned to the match in the second half. Woelwater Durmishaj tapped a long lost ball on the back line in front of the Mechelen defenders. Via Koita, Kobayashi was able to score the 1-1 with a lovely curl in the short corner. The game continued to wave up and down, and even in the wrong passes and misunderstandings, both teams did not admit each other to each other. When Schryvers, hunted by a Malinois, played the ball backwards, he almost grabbed his own goalkeeper. Also this time it was a harbinger for a Mechelen goal, because a few minutes later it was Tshibola who unnecessarily headed a Mechelen free kick into the Wase: 1-2 for KVM. Waasland-Beveren refused to give up, but always found a strong Thoelen on his way. KV Mechelen was able to look the cat out of the tree and cheerfully counter it. That is how Kaya seemed on his way to 1-3 when he received a handy tap from De Camargo. The wild shot of the Mechelen captain flew everyone by. Waasland-Beveren played knight or mass and it went wrong. As the sharpness broke out of the game, the belief in a good ending also disappeared. Certainly when a new, perfect counter-shot meant the deadly 1-3. Togui completed the campaign and treated a brave Waasland-Beveren to a seventh season defeat.
Captain Onur Kaya was very satisfied after the game: “The match could go either way. Waasland-Beveren is a difficult team to play against and they are doing well with their new trainer. Fortunately it became 1-3, we were efficient today and scored on the right moments, thanks also to our invaders, because we are playing with eighteen, twenty or even twenty-five players, and now we will play twice at home next week if we get the maximum, who knows where we stand then ? ”
Sint Truiden:
STVV is currently on a difficult track. It only managed to win three times, draw three times and lost five times. Not bad but anything but good grades. It puts them in 12th place in the rankings with only eleven points. It can only leave four teams behind. The gap with the red lantern Cercle is now so large that there is no need to worry about it, although STVV aimed a bit higher. Last Sunday Ghent came to visit.
STVV and AA Gent took their time for an extensive study round. Both teams were good in the organization and gave away little space. Apart from a few half chances, there was very little action to be seen in the two large rectangles. It was only after thirty-five minutes that the first shot was scored between the posts, a too central swipe by Jaremchuk. On the other side, STVV came closer to a goal, but the sliding Suzuki just couldn’t get a sharp cross from Botaka. After that the match continued to ripple towards the rest signal. Both teams tried to force something, but without success: 0-0 halfway. In the second half, AA Gent gradually increased the pressure. David saw a great opportunity in the side net, a clever blow by Kvilitaia forced Schmidt into an equally beautiful parade. Plastoen also had an excellent chance of the 0-1, but he headed close up. After a number of changes, the organization was a bit lacking in both teams, leaving more and more room to play football. All of a sudden this led to opportunities on both sides: Suzuki missed an excellent opportunity for STVV, while on the other side Depoitre misunderstood the opportunity for AA Gent. Also a final offensive by the home team did not result in a goal anymore, so that after ninety changeable minutes we got stuck on a scoreless draw.
There was a double feeling at STVV. That was also the case with attacker Yohan Boli: “AA Gent hurt us with a different tactic and higher pressing after the break, but we managed to hold on and eventually managed to enforce some chances. But they also had excellent opportunities in the second half, so we can certainly be satisfied with one point. After two games with four goals against, it is also good to keep the zero again. That gives confidence for the coming games. ”
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