The Jong Genk Sentinel
Match2 Nov 2026
Jong Genk sink to position 17
7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Saif Eddien Lazar
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match31 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Jong Genk
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ali Camara’s goal not enough for Jong Genk
Ali Camara scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Club NXT, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Emile Doucouré
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
Jong Genk and Brad Manguelle are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Youri Batshuayi faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Youri Batshuayi after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Yumeki Yoshinaga
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Yumeki Yoshinaga has come out of that comparison in the side, and Jong Genk have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The armband comes off Kayden Pierre
Jong Genk will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
In brief
- Squad Ali Camara moves up the pecking order
- Looking ahead Ayman Rabhi goes back to face Lierse
- Squad A wage question at Jong Genk