The RAAL La Louviere Post
The terraces22 Feb 2027
Supporters organise against the RAAL La Louviere board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The knee: Mathieu Cornet out for 60 days
60 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. RAAL La Louviere lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A one-man rearguard from Alex Kouto Horio Pisano
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Up for the corner, and Djibril Lamego delivers — 7.99
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Djibril Lamego scored, was marked 7.99, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at RAAL La Louviere
Alex Kouto Horio Pisano was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Thierry Lutonda
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
RAAL La Louviere rebuffed over Merchas Doski
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Viktoria Plzen have kept their man, and RAAL La Louviere go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces22 Feb 2027
One of their own: Alex Kouto Horio Pisano
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match20 Feb 2027
RAAL La Louviere see off KV Mechelen
Three points for RAAL La Louviere, 1‑0 the final word against KV Mechelen in a contest settled by the finer margins.
In brief
- Squad RAAL La Louviere count the cost of losing Tom Tomasetti
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Tiago Pereira Cardoso
- Market Mouhamed Belkheir is free to find somewhere else