The KV Oostende Post
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
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.
Match21 Dec 2026
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.
Match19 Dec 2026
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 ratings21 Dec 2026
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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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.
Match19 Dec 2026
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 dugout21 Dec 2026
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