Waregem 0 - 8 tricolores-lokeren (380101677)

It was an exceptionally sunny day for the crowd of 22412 that came out to MVV Waregem '74 Arena. Péter Márkus was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Tevita Craft and Nico Piets. Waregem started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. They fielded: Laurent - Geurts, Thill, Dewilde, Pettit - Crasset, Riga, Staumont, Pille - Wilfart, Beijert.

tricolores-lokeren tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. The following players had been chosen: Hanks - Beaumont, Vansteenkiste - Tallieu, Scheidhammer, Pezzino, Adriaenssen, 文发 (Wenfa) - Kaitainen, Jousselin, Delatte.

tricolores-lokeren were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. Several players seemed a little dazed by the warm weather, and were repeatedly tricked by the clever and agile R. Scheidhammer. The visiting A. Jousselin was booed thoroughly by the home crowd 27 minutes into the game, after he broke through the middle and scored, resulting in the visitors taking the lead. 0 - 1 was the score. Some fine movement on the left led to a tricolores-lokeren goal after 34 minutes, making it 0 - 2. A. Jousselin was noted down as the scorer. At this point, it was obvious that the players of tricolores-lokeren lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. With 37 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed A. Jousselin of tricolores-lokeren to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 3. By then A. Jousselin had scored three goals - a hat trick! S. Delatte received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 38 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 0 - 4. The tricolores-lokeren fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early. 0 - 4 was the score after the first half. Possession in this half belonged to tricolores-lokeren, who controlled the ball 82 percent of the time.

The visitors' O. Tallieu took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 65 minutes into the match. 0 - 5 for tricolores-lokeren. tricolores-lokeren's B. Vansteenkiste made it through the home team's defence on the right hand side 70 minutes into the match. After rounding the keeper, he only had to place the ball in the unguarded goal when a defender slid in and cleared the ball off the line. P. Adriaenssen increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 6. 77 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 7 as B. Vansteenkiste finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. Usually a powerful player on the field, J. Thill looked kind of pale and tired under the hot sun. After 79 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for A. Kaitainen who increased tricolores-lokeren's lead to 0 - 8. tricolores-lokeren claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 85 percent.

Most important Waregem player was R. Wilfart. G. Laurent was a disappointment, however. tricolores-lokeren's top performer was clearly R. Scheidhammer. S. Pezzino on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 8.