Eyad Medhat

Central Defender - KV Oostende
24 May 2037
Sunday
Process

Marked for Eyad Medhat

547 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

19 Jan 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A day Leander Hazard will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Hans Mignolet

19 goals and a season average of 7.40 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Timothy Openda yet — 8.02

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.02 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at KV Oostende

Radja Doku 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.

Squad

Words at KV Oostende training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timothy Openda 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.

Match

KV Oostende find a way past Anderlecht

Anderlecht made KV Oostende work for it, but the scoreboard read 5‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

Leander Hazard among the goals in a wild afternoon

8 goals in one match, Leander Hazard on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of KV Oostende and Anderlecht.

Player ratings

One of those days for Leander Hazard

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.75, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

One of those days for Hans Mignolet

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.29, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

Back issues
527 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

1 Sep 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

KV Oostende march on in the cup

OH Leuven are out and KV Oostende go through, 3‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Sham Wetungany wins it after the whistle should have gone

107 minutes played. Sham Wetungany found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and OH Leuven went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Market

Timothy Openda wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at KV Oostende hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Hakim Guenouche has been here 10 seasons

377 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Eyad Medhat keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KV Oostende may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at KV Oostende

Radja Doku 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Nick Markanich

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at KV Oostende training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timothy Openda 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.

Match

6 goals as KV Oostende and Club Brugge go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between KV Oostende and Club Brugge, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief