The Lokeren Chronicle
Match22 Aug 2026
A 3-goal lead gone for Lokeren
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Zulte Waregem kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Lokeren will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Both of them Michy Lukaku's — 9.70
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.70, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Aug 2026
Club Brugge come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lokeren did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A day Simon Januzaj 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Dedryck Witsel asks to leave Lokeren
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lokeren
Michy Lukaku 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
One of those days for Simon Januzaj
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.63, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Lokeren training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Onana 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Michaël Heylen
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michaël Heylen, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Match Lokeren share the spoils with Zulte Waregem
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Romelu Witsel
- Market OH Leuven expected to open talks for Romelu Witsel