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Goal of75
Yellow card for Ezekiel Banzuzi72
Nikola Storm Petter Nosakhare Dahl 71
Birger Verstraete
Youssef Maziz 71
Bafdili shoots over.
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It is completely decided here Behind the Barracks. The only question is whether Leuven will not suffer even more damage.
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Rafik Belghali Sandy Walsh 65
Yellow card for Birger Verstraete63
Oscar Garcia gets booked for protesting.
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Foulon’s shot goes wide.
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Oscar Gil Regaño Thibault Vlietinck 59
Jocelyn N’dri Hamza Mendyl 59
Siebe Writers Ezekiel Banzuzi 58
OHL is now completely on the ropes. Lauberbach has scored his goal, he taps in Storm’s cross from close range.
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Maertens tries a kick from the halfway line. That is very opportunistic. The Wolf is not surprised.
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Almost a second Leuven own goal. An OHL defender slides Belghali’s cross wide into a corner.
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OHL has occasionally shown a nice combination with its tens, but that has not yet materialized in the second half.
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KV Mechelen lets the ball pass from foot to foot. The question is whether someone will also pull the trigger in the second half and finally finish OHL with the 3-0.
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Jose Marsa Bilal Bafdili 46
The second half has started, with a substitution on the Mechelen side.
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The third Leuven corner kick in extra time still yields something, but De Wolf sees the falling ball fly over his cage.
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We get 3 minutes of injury time.
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Balikwisha shoots wide. The wing player was therefore driven to the outside.
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Storm takes his chance from a very sharp angle and logically aims wide.
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Another chance for Lauberbach, after a cross falls at his feet on the small back line. He is now being blocked well, the striker could do less about this.
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Lauberbach against the postLauberbach heads Storm’s cross onto the post. The German can still resume, but he barely touches the ball. His rebound goes completely wrong.
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KV Mechelen is now playing with its luck. Maertens shoots wide.
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De Wolf ready for Maertens’ attemptLeuven comes through beautifully for the first time. Maertens can press in the turn, De Wolf pushes over.
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Yellow card for Jose Marsa25
This is a good example of how a match can take a decisive turn in a split second. When Ricca was excluded, Hairemans was hit in the back of the head by De Wolf’s kick. Ricca could not save the fact that the midfielder did not take advantage of the foul. The defender’s pulling error was indeed there and he was the last man.
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Chukwuvuikem Ikwuemesi Takuma OminamiOf course, Garcia has to make adjustments. He takes the man off the own goal: that’s hard.
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Has everything been decided here in just a few minutes? Schoofs appears alone for Leysen and scores the 2-0.
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At OHL they lend an extra helping hand. This makes it a very difficult task for Oscar Garcia’s team. Ikwuemesi heads Hairemans’ free kick past his own goalkeeper.
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Red card for Federico Ricca12
Hairemans goes deep after a kick from De Wolf. Ricca pulls down the player who has broken through, De Cremer draws red!
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A bouncing shot from Storm ends up in the arms of Leysen.
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Gil, OHL’s left back, already needs care. They can still patch it up on the side. It must be added that OHL plays in a 3-5-2 when it loses the ball, to counter KVM’s formation.
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The visitors have kicked off.
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KV Mechelen – OH Leuven: 0-0KV Mechelen:
Ortwin De Wolf – Jose Marsa – Toon Raemaekers – Ahmed Touba – Geoffrey Hairemans – Nikola Storm – Rob Schoofs – Rafik Belghali – Kerim Mrabti – Lion Lauberbach – Daam Foulon
Bank:
Lukas Baert – Sandy Walsh – Petter Nosakhare Dahl – Benito Raman – Yannick Thoelen – Bilal Bafdili – Elton Yeboah – Isaac Asante – Patrick Pflücke
OH Leuven:
Tobe Leysen – Birger Verstraete – Siebe Schrijvers – Jocelyn N’dri – Federico Ricca – Chukwubuikem Ikwuemesi – William Balikwisha – Óscar Gil Regaño – Takahiro Akimoto – Mathieu Maertens – Hasan Kurucay
Bank:
Lander Gijsbers – Takuma Ominami – Ezechiel Banzuzi – Mickaël Biron – Youssef Maziz – Suphanat Mueanta – Hamza Mendyl – Stefan Mitrovic – Manuel Osifo – Owen Jochmans – Thibault Vlietinck
KV Mechelen and OHL both have eleven points, but more could be added. They will certainly think so at KV, because they were the better team on the Genk field last week. Nevertheless, Hasi brings Foulon, Hairemans, Belghali and Lauberbach to the team. At OHL, Garcia intervened after the 3-0 at Ghent by fielding five other names. This also includes Verstraete and Balikwisha.
