The KV Mechelen Herald
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ortwin De Wolf 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 KV Mechelen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Mathis Servais
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 unbeaten for KV Mechelen
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation KV Mechelen did not have in the autumn.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at KV Mechelen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shane Duffy 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
6 new faces, and KV Mechelen are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad21 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Shane Duffy
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Shane Duffy, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Match No goals between KV Mechelen and OH Leuven
- Player ratings Jens Cools spends the afternoon fouling