The Lierse Sentinel
Squad18 Oct 2027
Rube Van Dooren damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match16 Oct 2027
Whatever happens, Lierse do not lose
14 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
No sign of nerves from Gaël Lafont at 21 — 8.04
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gaël Lafont did not need any: 8.04, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Noah De Ridder: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lierse have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Jerry Afriyie signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jerry Afriyie commits to Lierse for another 5 years.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Nobody could get near Jerry Afriyie
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Yuto Tsunashima in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lierse this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Jarno De Smet
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Lierse
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vincent De Vos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Match Lierse and Olympic Charleroi take a point apiece
- The dugout Yuto Tsunashima dropped after a run of poor form
- The dugout Romelu Batshuayi: “We have to be better”