The Lommel Chronicle
Match26 Dec 2026
7 unbeaten for Lommel
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Lommel did not have in the autumn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Lommel
Sverre Nypan 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The step up is real for Niels Nieki
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Filip Krastev runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Lommel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Krastev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Danilo Asprilla is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 38 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Match28 Dec 2026
Halfway: Lommel sit in position 3
27 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Christian Meunier was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Lommel dressing room was either.
Match26 Dec 2026
Lommel draw a blank against Jong Gent
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Jong Gent defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
In brief
- The dugout Théo Mununga gets picked when it counts
- The dugout No place in the plan for Matthias Pieklak
- The dugout Tom Reyners has been promised minutes