A red-and-white duel to end game day seven. The home team has already started above expectations. Kortrijk is not doing badly and can come on the same level if a victory is achieved.
Royal Excel Mouscron:
Mouscron has strengthened itself on Deadline Day. It takes a young goalkeeper away from AC Milan. Lillo Guarneri, a 17-year-old talent signs a contract for two seasons in Hainaut. Guarneri went through the youth series at Standard, but in 2018 he saw him go to AC Milan for 500,000 euros. Mouscron has also borrowed a 22-year-old midfielder from Manchester City with Aleix Garcia Serrano. With their current core, Mouscron must be armed for the current season.
A technically strong Mouscron immediately flew in against Mechelen and was often quicker in the first fifteen minutes. After Mouscron was unable to use a penalty kick, Mechelen became stronger and was able to score. Mouscron picked up again after the 1-0. Nevertheless, Mechelen again took the lead in the first half. The Mechelen counters did not get enough in the second half and the home team still got the lid on in the closing minutes.
Two years after his transfer to Mouscron, Nathan De Medina finally got hold of a base place. On the field of KV Mechelen he made the equalizer in the final seconds. “It is a great pleasure to score. These are the goals that really matter, “he responded after the match. “We really believed that we were not out of luck. We have driven Mechelen to the limit and that has paid off. We came here for at least one point and so we leave with a good feeling. ”
Kortrijk:
KV Kortrijk let the cheese be stolen from the bread in Standard, on the previous matchday it again lost two expensive points against KV Oostende in the final. It does show that Kortrijk started well in the competition. Their position in the rankings does not return the correct picture. Everything is also on a handkerchief together. A victory against Mouscron brings them to the same level and ensures a jump in the rankings anyway.
KV Kortrijk and KV Oostende shared the points after a remarkable match at the Guldensporen stadium, in which the chances invariably changed and there was a lot of tension, but little eye-catching football. The home team was the dominant team, but it did not offer many opportunities from that dominance. The visitors? They scored out of nowhere again. After coffee, Kortrijk went on and on Ostend in five minutes. KV Kortrijk seemed to have the sheep on dry land, but was still on a penalty kick in the final phase.
“We crawled back a little too much at the end and so we got the penalty against, after a match in which we showed dominance,” said coach Yves Vanderhaeghe. But for the second time in a row was not won by late goals against. Eric Ocansey also realized that. “We wanted to straighten something after Standard, but it was just not again,” said the goal-getter.
PREDICTION: Mouscron to win @ 2,18
