The Sint-Truiden Chronicle
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
A brace, and Ilias Sebaoui takes the afternoon — 8.21
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ilias Sebaoui provided it, and the 8.21 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Sint-Truiden
Ryotaro Ito and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Sint-Truiden training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kauã Elias is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match16 Oct 2027
Ilias Sebaoui sends Sint-Truiden past Zulte Waregem
It finished 3‑1, and it was Ilias Sebaoui’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sint-Truiden.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Leo Kokubo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Ryotaro Ito was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Taiga Hata was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The form table has caught Leo Kokubo
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
A promise honoured for Hugo Cuypers
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Sint-Truiden told Hugo Cuypers something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
- The dugout Mousa Castagne has his say
- Market The Taiga Hata talk will not go away
- Looking ahead Denzel Opoku faces his old club