Given the level displayed by the defense in recent weeks and his last convincing matches (with a goal) with the Futures we came to wonder why not him? The question deserved to be asked because, according to several opinions, its evolution has been noticed at the RSCA. Some people had doubts about him at one point. They dissipated. He will have a professional career.
“It’s really a Neerpede profilesays Leoni. He has progressed a lot in recent years and is working hard. He has improved in his positioning, his intelligence of the game. He just has to continue, be patient and it will come. There are still a lot of games this season and he might get his chance.”
With Paul Van Himst at his grandson Amando’s match, captain of the Anderlecht Futures: “Eddy Merckx makes fun of my 80 years”
The question is whether his career will be at RSCA or elsewhere. The grandson of Paul Van Himst is still considered too short to settle permanently in the team for the moment. He trains with the A’s all week but still needs to overcome a few flaws to definitively convince David Hubert. We are talking in particular about his lack of speed to play with a high defensive line. “But I see him one day in the Anderlecht A team. It has the potential to, slips Leoni again. Now the ball is in his court.”
gullMy grandfather wasn’t there because of the stairs.
His first match against Tubize Braine went well. “With the exception of the yellow card which he took too easily, he did that well, smiles David Hubert. He deserved to play. We follow him very closely and are not far from the A team.”
He also impressed by giving a corner at the end of the match. One of his specialties that he owes to his training in numbers 9 and 10. His good feet are reminiscent of those of his grandfather Paul Van Himst. The RSCA legend was away but called Amando in the morning. “Grandpa always gives me advice before the match and we debrief afterwards. I don’t know how to do everything he did because we play different positions. But he has been a striker for a long time and knows what bothers a striker. He wasn’t in Tubize because he has problems with the stairs.”
Anderlecht under the microscope: Dreyer and Dolberg score in honor of Fredberg, Van Himst’s grandson makes his debut without complexes
His program is a return to the Futures this week. The crisis in which the team is plunged will not help Anderlecht remove Lapage from the core of the U23s. Another argument against him: would it be doing him a favor to have him play in the Pro League alongside a Simic who is his age or a Zanka in crisis of confidence? If Vertonghen had been on the field, Lapage would have come into consideration more quickly.
Sporting continues to believe in Lapage but the defender feels ready to play in D1. He is at the end of his contract in June and still has a one-year option which must be exercised at the start of 2025. He is considering leaving, even if it means aiming for a Faes trajectory, stuck in Anderlecht and forced to move to Ostend to end up in the Premier League and with the Red Devils.
Tubize-Braine’s record 0-4 Anderlecht
Tubize-Braine: De Bolle, Hendrickx, Essikal, Migliore, Delhaye, Tepe, Garlito (86e Kuchinska), Lauwrensens (71e Prso), Denayer (71e Toutou), Shala (71e Hazard), Crame (79e Salazaku).
Anderlecht : Kikkenborg, Foket, Simic (70th Lapage), Zanka, N’Diaye (59th Sardella), Leoni, Verschaeren, Degreef, Dreyer (70th Rits), Amuzu (46th Edozie), Vazquez (59th Dolberg).
The referee: M. Letellier
Yellow cards: Foket, De Bolle, Degreef, Lapage.
The goals: 26e Dreyer sur pen. (0-1), 65e Dolberg (0-2), 66eDolberg (0-3), 86e Dolberg (0-4)
