Bladimir Angulo

Defensive Midfielder - KV Oostende
3 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Bladimir Angulo

21 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lois Meunier

Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

The view from the top for KV Oostende

39 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Match

The run at home goes on for KV Oostende

13 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Youri Boyata yet — 8.24

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.24 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Youri Boyata

13 goals and a season average of 7.32 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Words exchanged at KV Oostende

Youri Boyata and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at KV Oostende

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thomas Tielemans was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

KV Oostende get the job done against Standard Liege

A 1‑0 win over Standard Liege, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

No hiding place for Bladimir Angulo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bladimir Angulo, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Simon Openda dropped after a run of poor form
  • The dugout When it matters, Yannick Januzaj plays
Back issues
18 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

20 unbeaten for KV Oostende

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 20 matches without defeat is a foundation KV Oostende did not have in the autumn.

Match

A European night to remember for KV Oostende

1‑1 against Shakhtar, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Match

KV Oostende are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 32 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

6 saves: Toby Mertens was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Loan watch

Charles Januzaj keeps scoring at Crvena Zvezda

9 appearances away from home and 18 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Yannick Januzaj

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Shakhtar end the KV Oostende run at 7

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 7 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Squad

A falling-out at KV Oostende

Youri Boyata and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Youri Boyata is carrying KV Oostende

12 goals and a season average of 7.30. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief