The Lokeren Chronicle
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Thomas Breton
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market4 Jan 2027
Pedro Xavier hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokeren can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Jan 2027
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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Both of them Yannick Fellaini's — 8.30
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match4 Jan 2027
Lokeren refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 42 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The season belongs to Yannick Fellaini
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Lokeren have had the benefit of it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Dedryck Witsel: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lokeren have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Yannick Fellaini is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.34 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Thomas Breton in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lokeren this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Match Nobody could stop scoring
- Match Lokeren find a way past Standard Liege
- Market Baixinho told to find a new club