The Charleroi Gazette
Match26 Sep 2026
Aurélien Scheidler leads the rout of KV Oostende
4‑1, and Aurélien Scheidler took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Charleroi tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A brace, and Aurélien Scheidler takes the afternoon — 9.55
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Aurélien Scheidler provided it, and the 9.55 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match28 Sep 2026
Charleroi are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 19 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Gaku Nawata, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.30
A mark of 8.30 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Romain Amalfitano yet — 7.87
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.87 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Charleroi
Romain Amalfitano 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Gaku Nawata
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
Charleroi and KV Kortrijk meet at the summit
The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Christian De Bruyne: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 4‑1, already talking about the next one.
In brief
- The dugout Dalil Ouadrassi gets it from the manager
- Player ratings Antoine Colassin beats them one at a time
- Squad The first one for Romain Amalfitano