The KV Mechelen Herald
Match26 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for KV Mechelen
1‑1 against OH Leuven, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Mathis Servais, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.73
A mark of 8.73 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market31 Aug 2026
Eyes on Bouke Boersma again
The phone has started ringing about Bouke Boersma again, and this time the name on the line is Pacos de Ferreira. KV Mechelen are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KV Mechelen
Jordan Amavi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Mathis Servais
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Myron van Brederode
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
One of those days for Maksim Kireev
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Massimo Decoene falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Divock Origi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Divock Origi, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Player ratings The kick that got away from Thérence Koudou
- Match KV Mechelen and KV Kortrijk take a point apiece
- Squad Bill Antonio asks for a word with the manager